Creative Digital Design Manager

What You Will Do

As a Creative Digital Design Manager, you will provide creative leadership across digital initiatives while remaining actively involved in day-to-day execution. You will lead by example through hands-on concepting and delivery, supervise a team of designers, and partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-quality, on-brand work across campaigns and channels. This role balances execution, team oversight, and developing people-management responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and execute digital creative work on a day-to-day basis, contributing directly to concept development, design, and delivery across campaigns, web, social, and brand initiatives.
• Supervise designers in daily work, providing direction, prioritization, and feedback to ensure quality, consistency, and on-time delivery.
• Set and guide creative storytelling across digital channels, ensuring ideas translate into clear, compelling, audience-centered experiences.
• Partner with marketing, content, and design leaders to deliver integrated, cross-channel creative solutions.
• Provide hands-on creative leadership on high-priority, complex, or high-visibility initiatives.
• Participate actively in creative reviews, offering clear, actionable critique and guidance.
• Ensure consistency, quality, and brand integrity across all creative outputs.
• Support the development of designers through coaching, feedback, and project-based leadership.
• Contribute to the evolution of creative processes, workflows, and ways of working to improve efficiency and quality.
• Take on people-management responsibilities with support and guidance, as part of ongoing role development.

What You Will Need

• 7+ years of experience in digital design, creative, or marketing environments.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating concept, craft, execution, and creative problem-solving.
• Experience working in agency, in-house brand, consulting, or hybrid environments.
• Experience leading work and supervising designers in a day-to-day capacity.
• Emerging or developing experience with people management and team development.

What Would Be Nice To Have

• Experience with motion design or animation for digital, social, or campaign storytelling.
• Ability to concept and storyboard ideas for campaigns, video, or interactive experiences.
• Illustration skills or experience incorporating custom visual elements into brand work.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools to support ideation or production efficiency.
• Working knowledge of print production, prepress, and vendor coordination.

Compensation & Benefits

The annual salary range for this position is $98,000.00-$163,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace. Benefits include Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance, Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays, position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus, Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance, 401(k) Retirement Plan, Basic Life & Supplemental Life, Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Short-Term & Long-Term Disability, Student Loan PayDown, Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities, Skills Development & Certifications, Employee Referral Program, Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach, Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program, and Mobility Stipend.

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation. Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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Key skills/competency

• Digital Design
• Creative Leadership
• Campaign Development
• Team Supervision
• Brand Strategy
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Portfolio Management
• Creative Problem-solving
• Motion Graphics (Nice-to-have)
• AI-assisted Design Tools (Nice-to-have)