Creative Design Manager

Creative Design Manager

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

This role is responsible for leading design across web and digital experiences with a focus on scale, consistency, and modernization. The Creative Design Manager oversees both the quality of design output and the systems and workflows that support it, ensuring design can move faster without sacrificing clarity, accessibility, or craft.

The role partners closely with product, engineering, brand, and marketing teams to translate strategy into repeatable, durable design solutions. A key focus is evolving how design is produced—introducing AI and automation where they meaningfully improve efficiency, iteration, and consistency, while maintaining strong design judgment and standards.

This role manages a multidisciplinary team and is accountable for setting direction, providing feedback, and developing talent. Success is measured not only by what ships, but by how effectively design scales across platforms, regions, and initiatives over time.

This is a hybrid role, based in the US.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a multidisciplinary design team across web and digital experiences
• Deliver high-quality design work that scales across platforms, products, and regions
• Drive the adoption and evolution of design systems, patterns, templates, and tokens
• Modernize design and creative workflows through selective use of AI and automation
• Partner with product, engineering, brand, and marketing teams to align execution
• Ensure design quality, accessibility, and consistency across all touchpoints
• Balance delivery speed with design rigor and long-term maintainability
• Provide clear direction, feedback, and development support to designers
• Contribute to roadmap planning and prioritization for digital initiatives

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in design or creative roles, including people management
• Demonstrated experience delivering large-scale digital or platform work
• Strong visual and UX judgment with an understanding of system-level design
• Experience working with or maintaining a design system
• Familiarity with AI tools used in design and creative production
• Ability to collaborate across disciplines and operate within complex organizations
• Clear communication skills and sound decision-making

Preferred

• Experience in enterprise or global digital environments
• Background working across both brand and product design
• Experience introducing new tools or workflows at team or organizational level

What We Can Offer You

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

The Expected Salary/Wage Range

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 111,000 - 211,000 in Colorado // 120,000 - 228,000 in Massachusetts // 120,000 - 243,000 in California // 105,500 - 243,000 in Georgia & New Jersey & North Carolina & Texas

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. Please click here: Equal Employment Opportunity.

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