Graphic Design Manager

Living Our Values
All associates are guided by Our Values. Our Values are the unifying foundation of our companies. We strive to ensure that every decision we make and every action we take demonstrates Our Values. We believe that putting Our Values into practice creates lasting benefits for all of our associates, shareholders, and the communities in which we live.

Why Join Us

• Career Growth: Advance your career with opportunities for leadership and personal development.
• Culture of Excellence: Be part of a supportive team that values your input and encourages innovation.
• Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that looks after both your professional and personal needs.

Total Rewards
Our Total Rewards package underscores our commitment to recognizing your contributions. We offer a competitive and fair compensation structure that includes base pay and performance-based rewards. Compensation is based on skill set, experience, qualifications, and job-related requirements. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, wellness programs, retirement plans, and generous paid leave. Discover more about what we offer by visiting our Benefits page.

A Day In The Life
Friedkin is seeking an experienced Graphic Design Manager to steward and evolve the Friedkin master brand ensuring its visual identity, architecture, and creative standards are executed with excellence across the enterprise. This is a hands-on creative role with strategic influence. The ideal candidate is a designer who can think in systems, manage brand integrity at the corporate level, and deliver exceptional design that reflects Friedkin's elevated tone and core ideology of care, commitment, evolution, and excellence. This role focuses exclusively on the Friedkin corporate brand, ensuring it shows up consistently and cohesively across all communications, materials, and platforms. The position does not manage or direct creative for the subsidiary brands but will provide guidance and alignment to ensure brand coherence across the broader Friedkin family.

As a Graphic Design Manager you will:

• __Brand Stewardship & Creative Execution__ * Manage and evolve the Friedkin master brand system, ensuring all creative applications align with corporate identity and brand standards. * Maintain and update the brand architecture and visual guidelines that connect Friedkin to its portfolio of brands. * Design and produce corporate materials, executive presentations, enterprise templates, and branded assets that express Friedkin's brand tone. * Develop and refine design tools and templates for internal teams to ensure consistent execution across departments and subsidiaries.
• __Creative Operations & Process__ * Establish a creative workflow system (using Monday.com or similar) to manage design requests, approvals, and deliverables. * Create and maintain a creative SOP that defines how internal partners engage with the design function. * Manage external design vendors or freelancers as needed to support overflow or specialized projects.
• __Collaboration & Brand Governance__ * Partner closely with Communications, HR, Corporate Affairs, and other departments to ensure brand alignment and creative consistency. * Provide creative and brand guidance to cross-functional teams and subsidiary brand leads when Friedkin brand assets or co-branding are in use. * Act as a brand ambassador, reinforcing Friedkin's design standards, tone, and storytelling approach across the organization.
• __Digital & Multimedia (Preferred)__ * Create digital assets and graphics for Friedkin's owned channels and internal communications. * Edit short-form video content for leadership, internal updates, or social channels as needed.

What We Need From You

• Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or related field. Req and
• 7-9 years experience in graphic design, brand design, or creative management, ideally with corporate or global brand experience. Required
• Proven ability to manage a parent or master brand across a multi-brand organization. (High proficiency)
• Deep understanding of brand architecture, visual systems, and corporate identity. (High proficiency)
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop; After Effects a plus) and presentation tools (PowerPoint, Keynote). (High proficiency)
• Strong sense of typography, layout, and visual hierarchy. (High proficiency)
• Experience creating and implementing design workflows and project management systems. (High proficiency)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. (High proficiency)
• User Experience (UX) Intermediate-Advanced Required
• Brand Identity Brand identity is the collection of elements that identify, distinguish and communicate a brand to its consumers. Intermediate-Advanced Required
• Strategic Thinking Intermediate-Advanced Required
• Typography Intermediate-Advanced Required
• Visual Composition Intermediate-Advanced Required
• Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, compositing and animation application used in the post-production process of film making, video games and television production. It also functions as a very basic non-linear editor, audio editor, and media transcoder. Intermediate-Advanced Required

Physical and Environmental RequirementsThe physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. While performing the duties of the job, the associate is required on a daily basis to analyze and interpret data, communicate, and remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the work day and frequently access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. The associate is regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The associate must frequently move up to 10 pounds and occasionally move up to 25 pounds.

Travel Requirements
10%

Join Us
The Friedkin Group and its affiliates are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at TalentAcquisition@friedkin.com. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all associates.

We are seeking candidates legally authorized to work in the United States, without Sponsorship.

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