Associate Design Manager

Responsibilities

• Oversee the execution of design work for assigned brands or categories, ensuring alignment with design strategy and brand standards.
• Support designers on the team through clear direction, actionable feedback, and performance guidance.
• Translate design strategy into briefs, workflows, timelines, and deliverables.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams—including Brand, Marketing, Innovation, and Operations—to deliver solutions on time and within budget.
• Provide day-to-day direction to external agencies and production partners.
• Review and approve creative work to ensure quality, accuracy, and consistency.
• Cookordination production and pre-press processes to ensure flawless execution.
• Support budget oversight, production planning, and operational needs for assigned work.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, tools, and team efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in Client design (Food industry preferred) and design management.
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Design, or a related field.
• Design management experience is required, with the ability to lead design projects from end to end— from creative briefing and budget management through concept development, design execution, production, and final delivery.
• Demonstrated design leadership, strong project management, and excellent communication skills.
• Exceptional visual storytelling ability.
• Strong presentation, organizational skills, and attention to detail.
• Deep expertise across art production, photography, and graphic design principles.
• Fluency in packaging regulations and related application.
• Experience specifically within the food and snacks category.
• Hands-on experience managing external agencies or production partners.
• Process-improvement mindset with experience implementing new tools or systems.
• Experience mentoring or developing junior design talent.
• Familiarity with emerging design technologies or workflow automation.

Skills

• Experience specifically within the food and snacks category.
• Hands-on experience managing external agencies or production partners.
• Process-improvement mindset with experience implementing new tools or systems.
• Experience mentoring or developing junior design talent.
• Familiarity with emerging design technologies or workflow automation.

Pay Transparency

The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $50.00 - $50.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.