Design Manager
Lead and mentor a team of designers as a player-coach, translating creative direction into high-quality visual work for brand campaigns, events, partnerships, and product launches. Requires 8+ years in brand/creative design with management experience and a strong portfolio.
About the job
What You'll Own
- Design execution across Harvey's activations vertical, including events, brand campaigns, partnerships, product launches, and other strategic brand initiatives.
- Translating creative direction into compelling visual work across multiple projects simultaneously.
- Creative feedback and design quality across the team, helping raise the standard of work through thoughtful reviews and mentorship.
- Management, coaching, and development of Harvey's design team, including workload planning, career growth, and performance.
- Design consistency and operational excellence across a growing volume of high-impact creative work.
What You'll Do
- Partner closely with Harvey's Creative Director to bring creative concepts to life through exceptional design.
- Set the visual direction for projects from early concepts through final execution, ensuring work meets a high standard of craft.
- Lead and develop a team of designers through regular feedback, coaching, and creative direction.
- Stay hands-on with design work when appropriate, balancing management responsibilities with individual contribution.
- Partner closely with Creative Operations, Copy, Motion, and Marketing to deliver cohesive, high-quality creative work.
- Drive design across Harvey's flagship events, campaigns, partnership launches, product launches, and other high-visibility initiatives.
- Push work beyond the brief, helping uncover creative ideas that make campaigns memorable rather than simply well executed.
- Establish effective design workflows and review processes that help the team move quickly without sacrificing quality.
- Foster a culture of craft, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the design team.
What You Have
- 8+ years of experience in brand or creative design, including experience managing or mentoring designers.
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and strong conceptual thinking across campaigns, brand work, events, or product marketing.
- Experience leading design for high-visibility initiatives, including launches, activations, or integrated campaigns.
- Strong creative judgment and the ability to provide clear, actionable feedback that improves both the work and the people creating it.
- Experience balancing multiple complex projects while maintaining a consistently high bar for quality.
- Comfort moving between leadership, creative direction, and hands-on execution depending on the needs of the project.
Bonus
- Experience at a high-growth B2B SaaS, AI, or enterprise technology company.
- Experience designing for large-scale events or brand activations.
- Experience helping build or scale a growing creative organization.
- Familiarity with legal, professional services, or other complex enterprise industries.
Compensation
$180,800-271,200
Skills
Brand Design, Creative Direction, Design Management, Mentorship, Visual Craft, Conceptual Thinking, Campaign Design, Event Design, Portfolio Presentation
Similar jobs
Brand Design jobs
Creditgenie
San Francisco, CA
Senior brand designer responsible for evolving visual identities, leading integrated and lifecycle campaigns, and building scalable creative systems for Credit Genie and a new product line. Requires 6–8 years of brand design experience, strong cross-functional collaboration, and proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
Gigs
San Francisco, CALeads category creation and brand positioning for Gigs, shaping the company narrative across customers, media, partners, founders, and international markets. The role requires exceptional writing, executive communications experience, multi-channel distribution expertise, and experience in a high-growth technology environment.
Mochi Health
San Francisco, CA
Senior Brand Designer responsible for developing and evolving Mochi Health's visual identity, brand architecture, and design systems across packaging, advertising, and all touchpoints. Requires 3+ years brand design experience, strong portfolio, and proficiency in design tools.
Patch
San Francisco, CA
Leads Patch’s visual brand system and delivers design across web, editorial, campaigns, sales materials, events, video, and social. The role combines hands-on design and creative direction, requiring 8+ years of experience and strong cross-format portfolio and communication skills.
Retell AI
San Francisco, CA
The senior brand designer will define and scale Retell AI’s visual identity across digital campaigns, web, social, print, events, and marketing collateral. The role requires at least three years of brand or marketing design experience, strong visual fundamentals, and fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.