Creative Design Manager

Creative Design Manager at Stryker

The Creative Design Manager is responsible for leading high-impact design initiatives that support internal and external communications, product promotions, and division-wide programs. You will execute the creative vision by translating complex business objectives and communication strategies into compelling, brand-aligned visual solutions that inform, engage, and inspire. As a senior individual contributor and design leader, you will own complex, high-visibility projects from concept through execution, ensuring creative excellence, consistency, and effectiveness across channels. Partnering closely with Communications, Marketing, and business unit leaders, you will serve as a trusted collaborator who elevates visual storytelling and drives clarity, engagement, and alignment in a highly matrixed, global organization.

What you will do:

• Manage creative design strategy by developing design concepts that align with communication goals, brand guidelines, and business priorities.
• Oversee the design process, serving as a design partner to stakeholders, providing guidance on visual storytelling, messaging hierarchy, and design best practices.
• Lead planning and execution of design projects from kickoff through final delivery, ensuring timelines, expectations, and deliverables are clearly defined and met.
• Own creative development for major initiatives and divisional programs, including leadership communications, change initiatives, and large-scale events.
• Contribute to defining and evolving creative standards, templates, and visual systems that scale across the organization.
• Ensure all design work strengthens brand alignment and supports a cohesive, professional visual identity.
• Develop high-impact PowerPoint presentations for internal and external audiences.
• Design visual assets across a variety of formats, including presentations, campaign graphics, digital channels, event collateral, and more.

What you need:

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, Advertising, Visual Communications, Marketing, or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of professional graphic design experience post-Bachelors.
• Experience building marketing campaigns, digital, and physical materials in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro).
• Must be able to provide a portfolio showcasing a range of projects, with an emphasis on brand consistency, storytelling, and impact.

Preferred:

• Experience working in a fast-paced, highly matrixed corporate environment.
• Training on and/or experience with UI/UX fundamentals and digital content design.
• Experience using collaborative platforms like Miro, FigJam, or Figma.
• Demonstrated experience with project management tools such as Workfront, Asana, or Monday.com.
• Experience leading or contributing to large-scale events or campaigns (National Sales Meetings, product launches).

Benefits:

Stryker offers a competitive salary plus bonus eligibility and comprehensive benefits. Health benefits include Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program, and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker provides innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics, and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Depending on customer requirements, employees and new hires in sales and field roles may be required to obtain various vaccinations.

Key skills/competency:

• Creative Strategy
• Brand Guidelines
• Visual Storytelling
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Project Management
• Digital Content Design
• UI/UX Fundamentals
• Marketing Campaigns
• Communication Strategy
• Presentation Design