Design Manager

**Are you a strong web designer who wants your eye to shape more than your own work?** We are looking for a Design Manager who leads by designing. You will own the design on some of our highest\-value website builds, and you will set and hold the creative bar for everything else our design team produces. **WHO WE ARE** WISE Digital Partners is a fully remote digital marketing agency named to the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest\-growing private companies three years running (2024\-2026\). We provide digital marketing strategy, technology, and services for growth\-ready businesses across professional services (legal, accounting, and adjacent industries) and home services (plumbing, HVAC, and adjacent trades). We work with over 100 clients and are on a path to double revenue over the next two years. We launched in 2019, are based in San Diego, and have been fully remote since day one. Our leadership team is made up of agency veterans, many of whom have worked together across multiple agencies. We've built proprietary technology that powers performance across our client sites. And we're rebuilding how websites get made: an evolving design\-to\-development pipeline paired with AI\-assisted workflows that we are actively developing rather than just talking about. You would be joining that work in progress as we blend the best in human expertise with AI innovation. **WHAT YOU'LL DO** * **Design.** Own end\-to\-end design on select website builds, from homepage direction through full\-site execution. You will set the visual standard by producing it, not by describing it. * **Set the bar.** Review and approve design work before it reaches clients. Give clear, specific feedback that improves the work and teaches the designer something. Serve as the escalation point when a design problem gets stuck. * **Lead the team.** Manage our offshore design team in partnership with our Design Lead. Understand each designer's strengths, close the gaps, and raise the ceiling on what the team can produce without you in the room. * **Push the process.** Help us get better at combining AI\-assisted production with real human design judgment. Strengthen our creative briefs, our quality checks, and our market and industry references. Own final approval on design process changes. * **Collaborate.** Partner with copywriters, SEO and paid media specialists, developers, project managers, and account managers to deliver strong work on scope and on schedule. **THE SHAPE OF THE ROLE** This role is roughly 60% hands\-on design and 40% review, coaching, and process work. That balance will move as the team's standard rises and less of your time goes to correction, but design work will never drop below half of this seat. If you want to stop designing and manage full time, this is not the right role. You will lead our four\-person offshore design team. You will start with two direct reports, including our Design Lead, and take on the full team as