# Design Manager

**Company:** [Harvey](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/harvey)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Brand Design
**Salary:** $182k – $271k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** brand design, creative direction, design management, Mentorship, visual craft, conceptual thinking, campaign design, event design, portfolio presentation
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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