Design Manager
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Job overview
The Design Manager translates creative briefs and business objectives into audience-focused design concepts and manages projects from research and ideation through production, approvals, and delivery. The role champions the University’s brand standards, mentors design interns and communicators, collaborates across communications and marketing teams, presents concepts to stakeholders, and produces digital and print materials for multiple channels.
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Full job description
Creative Strategy: Translate creative briefs and business objectives into high-impact design concepts that resonate with audiences and help drive the brand forward.Project Ownership: Manage the design project lifecycle from research and ideation through production and approvals to final delivery.Brand Stewardship: Protect and champion the Universitys brand identity, ensuring that all materials follow established standards.Mentorship: Guide and provide constructive feedback to design interns and communicators across the portfolio to help elevate the overall quality and skill of the team.Collaboration: Work with peers across Communications, Marketing and Engagement and functional units and departments to develop effective materials to support marketing and communication goals.Stakeholder Presentations: Confidently present concepts and design rationale to leadership, internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams.Execution and Production: Produce high-quality digital and print deliverables suitable for multiple channels and ensure all files are accurate and ready for production.
How this job compares
Set against the 537 open Design Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$138–208K/yr20 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 52 open Design Manager jobs in Texas and 537 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- Design Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 10 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 6 to 12 years (406 postings).
- Education
- 386 of the 537 open Design Manager jobs (72%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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