Production designers provide visual and physical context and support to the storytelling function of all performance and presentation media, including film, television, video, live event, live performance and digital media. Production designers are in demand in the expanding fields of visual programming for video, cable outlets, broadcast networks, independent filmmaking, digital video production, theme parks and other entertainment venues.
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- Art director
- Drafting artist
- Fine artist
- Grip/stagehand
- Retail designer
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- Costume designer
- Lighting designer
- Model maker
- Production assistant
- Museum designer
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- Prop assistant
- Scenic designer
- Theater production designer
- Theme park designer
- Stylist/wardrobe designer
Annually, more than 500 national and international companies and organizations recruit SCAD students and alumni. Over the past four years, an average of 8 out of 10 SCAD alumni responding to a survey were employed in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.
Employers of SCAD alumni include:

- 20th Century Fox
- Alliance Theatre
- American Ballet Theatre
- Center Theater Group
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Creative Visions Inc.
- Discovery Communications
- Florentine Opera Company
- Food Network
- HBO
- HGTV
- The Metropolitan Opera
- MTV Networks
- NBC Universal
- New American Shakespeare Tavern
- Nickelodeon
- Pie Town Productions
- Pilgrim Films & Television
- The Alley Theatre
- Theatreworks
- Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts