Design Manager – Core Products

Hurix Systems Pvt. Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hurix Systems Pvt. Ltd is seeking a Design Manager for its Bengaluru office. The role involves leading design projects for curriculum materials, ensuring quality and accessibility across digital and print formats.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in graphic design, proficiency in leading a team, and expertise in design tools like Adobe Creative Suite and Figma. This position promotes a hybrid work mode and values collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of graphic design experience.
• 2+ years of team management experience.
• Portfolio showcasing digital and print design.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate curriculum design for mathematics and literacy products.
• Manage designers and oversee design quality.
• Collaborate with teams in India and the US.

Skills

Creative problem-solving

Project management

Attention to detail

HTML and CSS

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Figma

Mural

Job description

# Design Manager – Core ProductsRole: Design Manager Location: Bengaluru Hiring Organization: Hurix, hiring for a client Employment: Full Time Work Mode: Hybrid work mode – 3 days a week in office | 2pm – 9 pm About the Role: The design manager will facilitate the development of compelling and accessible student- and teacher-facing curriculum materials for our core mathematics and literacy products. This role will focus on several projects concurrently, including accessible epub development and state customizations to print and digital curriculum materials, such as teacher guides and digital resource libraries. In addition to managing several designers, the design manager will oversee the day-to-day design work and collaborate with cross-functional peers to develop creative solutions to potential blockers. What You’ll Do: ● Onboard and train new designers, preparing them to successfully take on work. ● Liaise between India and US teams, helping clarify briefs, timelines, feedback, and expectations. ● Review creative work, ensuring that the established design strategy is upheld across product mediums. ● Communicate regularly with supervisors, design and production teams, and cross-functional collaborators. ● Understand and execute project goals and maintain schedules, elevating concerns or blockers in a timely manner. How you’ll contribute: ● Onboard designers, reviewing expectations, processes, and best practices. Serve as a resource and give specific feedback and guidance when necessary. ● Support the definition and tracking of basic performance metrics for the India design team (e.g., turnaround time, revisions, on-time delivery). ● Develop a deep knowledge of product-specific visual design plans and understand how to implement that strategy across project types and varying constraints. ● Deliver design direction, generate mock-ups for illustrative purposes, and edit existing designs across programs. ● Perform detailed reviews of vendor-generated epubs and provide actionable feedback to ensure consistency with the established visual design, text styling, page structure, and accessibility standards. ● Evaluate and update existing template designs to accommodate state-specific content for printable worksheets and documents, book interiors, and/or covers. Create new prototypes as needed. ● Conduct page reviews, ensuring accuracy and proper implementation of design strategy. ● Mark up PDFs, noting reading order, image size guidance, or image adaptations to guide vendor and in-house production. Contribute to existing style guides and prototypes as needed. ● Drive iterative design workflows and print and digital processes, propose opportunities for efficiencies, raise potential risks and solutions, and assist in determining staffing needs. ● Attend feedback sessions, consolidate inputs, and ensure revisions are implemented accurately and efficiently. ● Ensure files meet accessibility and production requirements to support efficient handoffs What You’ll Bring ● Creative problem-solver, capable of engaging with both mathematics and literacy curriculums. ● Ability to both lead and contribute as part of a cross-functional, cross-geography team ● A strong appreciation and understanding of both print and UX design best practices and WCAG standards. ● Working knowledge of HTML and CSS. ● Demonstrated accuracy and attention to detail. ● Deadline-driven mindset. ● Organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects at once. ● Excellent communication, collaboration, and listening skills, proactively asks questions. ● Openness and ability to apply constructive feedback. ● Eagerness to learn. Key Skills & Expertise Experience designing digital learning materials is preferred. Software: ● (Expert) Design/edit layouts, create stylesheets and templates: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop ● (Proficient) Design/edit prototypes: Figma and Web Developer Tools ● (Proficient) Collaboration and project management: Mural, SharePoint, Smartsheet ● (Proficient) Setting and reviewing math equations: MathML and MathType ● (Bonus) File and asset management: Woodwing Studio and Woodwing Assets ● (Bonus) Familiarity with AI Tools (i.e. Claude) to make Design review functions more efficient and to aid with developing design solutions at scale Experience & Education ● 5+ years of related graphic design experience with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent ● 2+ years of experience managing a team ● A portfolio of work; including proven experience in digital and print design ● Experience in Education Publishing (Print and Digital), GK-12, Print Books