Creative Design Manager Jobs in Atlanta, GA (NOW HIRING)

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What You'll Do

As a Regional Senior Creative Manager in BCG's Design Studios team, you'll be a driving force behind the delivery of high-quality, impactful, and multidisciplinary creative work across your region. You'll help shape the creative vision, lead project excellence, and grow the design culture - guiding teams across presentation, digital, video, editorial, and experience design.

You'll collaborate closely with the Regional Creative Director, Creative Managers, and studio leadership to translate business goals into creative direction, oversee day-to-day creative operations, and ensure the delivery of consistent design excellence. You'll also play a vital role in mentoring talent, streamlining workflows, and connecting creative disciplines to strategic consulting needs.

You will also collaborate with the regional Strategy team to develop and support go-to-market initiatives and campaigns. A key part of your role will involve building relationships with local consulting teams, promoting Design Studios' offerings, and ensuring client satisfaction through impactful, aligned creative solutions.

This is a pivotal role for a seasoned creative leader who can guide teams, deliver work, and champion creativity within a regional business context.

You're good at

Creative and Operational Leadership

• Leading multidisciplinary creative teams across workstreams and formats, ensuring high-quality, aligned, and on-brand output
• Reviewing, refining, and reinforcing creative standards from first draft to final delivery, across all media

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partnering with Creative Directors, Project Leads, and consulting teams to understand business context and translate it into creative solutions
• Partnering with Creative Managers from across DS offices on cross-geo projects to drive quality and innovation
• Collaborating with the Operations team to optimize resourcing, workflows, and team structure
• Working with the Strategy team to support go-to-market initiatives and deliver strategic and high-impact creative solutions

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Building strong working relationships with internal clients (consulting teams) - understanding their needs, anticipating challenges, and positioning creative solutions that elevate outcomes
• Engaging effectively with internal stakeholders, including the Senior Leadership Team, to ensure creative work supports broader business goals
• Managing expectations, facilitating open feedback loops, and ensuring client satisfaction with Design Studios' creative services

Team Development and Mentorship

• Coaching and guiding senior creatives and team leads, helping them grow into creative leaders and build high-performing teams
• Fostering a positive, collaborative culture that values curiosity, learning, and shared ownership

Creative Problem Solving

• Bringing new ideas, technologies (including GenAI), and frameworks to challenge conventional thinking and inspire the team

Performance & Quality Monitoring

• Monitoring KPIs and creative quality standards, evolving practices based on feedback and performance insights

What You'll Bring

• 8-10 years of relevant experience in a creative leadership role - within an agency, in-house design team, service design firm, or similar environment
• A bachelor's degree in design, visual communication, web/digital design, or a related creative field (design school background preferred)
• A strong portfolio showcasing conceptual design, visual storytelling, and cross-format fluency
• Experience building team culture, mentoring hybrid and specialist designers, and leading across multiple geographies
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills - confident in influencing direction and presenting creative vision
• Proficiency in design tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Familiarity with GenAI tools, creative automation platforms, and design ops systems
• A mindset that blends creativity, business understanding, and operational leadership
• Experience working in matrixed, global, or fast-paced business environments

Who You'll Work With

We are Design Studios, an in-house creative agency comprised of pioneering professionals creating premium designs. We are a global, multi-disciplinary team of design strategists, creative leaders, and digital experts. We craft powerful design stories for BCG, which seeks to deliver inspiring solutions to our clients' challenges. As part of BCG, Design Studios partners with consultants and clients to shape our brand by elevating our work through the power of design. We offer guidance and orientation through a strategic and audience-centric approach, and apply design, technology, and media solutions to take BCG's achievements to the next level.
As bold design leaders, we are fresh, punchy, and playful, while committed to delivering premium, business excellence. We recognize how to transform complex ideas into compelling visual experiences, and how to activate new commercial opportunities at the intersection of business and design. We value innovation, co-creation, inspiration, and the business impact that design achieves. We believe in the art of the possible and applying creative solutions to business challenges. We believe we can advance the world by conquering its complexity through a universal, human language - design.

Additional info

*** For US locations only ***

In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.

Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.

• The base salary range for this role in Atlanta is $118,000.00 -$144,700.00.

This is an estimated range, however, specific base salaries within the range depend on various factors such as experience and skill set. It is not common for new BCG employees to be hired at the high-end of the salary range. BCG regularly reviews its ranges to ensure market competitiveness.

In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 20% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.

All of our plans provide best in class coverage:

• Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children

• Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs

• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits

• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually

• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities

• Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan

• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement

• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)

• Paid sick time on an as needed basis

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