Digital Design Manager: Lead & Grow Teams

Fresh Consulting; Bellevue (KY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Fresh Consulting is seeking a Manager of Digital Design to lead design across client engagements and mentor a team of designers in a multidisciplinary studio. You’ll partner with project managers, developers, and leadership to ensure projects are well-defined, thoughtfully executed, and delivered to a high standard.

You’ll balance design craft with operations and people management, shaping how the studio works and grows while navigating ambiguity, aligning goals, and making informed design

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing digital products, software, or services.
• Experience leading designers within a consulting, agency, or product environment.
• Strong portfolio showing systems thinking, UX, interaction design, and product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead design across multiple client engagements from discovery to delivery.
• Grow designers with coaching, performance reviews and career development.
• Improve studio processes, documentation, and delivery practices; remove bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Development, Industrial and Motion Design, Business Development, and Program Management.
• Support studio growth through staffing, estimates, proposals, and client presentations.

Skills

UX design leadership

Design systems

Client engagement

Mentoring

Tools

Figma

Sketch

InVision

Job description

Fresh Consulting is seeking a Manager of Digital Design to lead design across client engagements and mentor a team of designers in a multidisciplinary studio. You’ll partner with project managers, developers, and leadership to ensure projects are well-defined, thoughtfully executed, and delivered to a high standard.

You’ll balance design craft with operations and people management, shaping how the studio works and grows while navigating ambiguity, aligning goals, and making informed design