Creative Design Manager - Portage, MI
5 hours ago
Job description
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The Creative Design Manager is responsible for leading high-impact design initiatives that support internal and external communications, product promotions and division wide programs. You will execute the creative vision by translating complex business objectives and communication strategies into compelling, brand-aligned visual solutions that inform, engage and inspire. As a senior individual contributor and design leader, you will own complex, high-visibility projects from concept through execution, ensuring creative excellence, consistency and effectiveness across channels. Partnering closely with Communications, Marketing, and business unit leaders, you will serve as a trusted collaborator who elevates visual storytelling and drives clarity, engagement and alignment in a highly matrixed, global organization.
What You Will Do
- Manage creative design strategy by developing design concepts that align with communication goals, brand guidelines and business priorities.
- Oversee the design process, serving as a design partner to stakeholders, providing guidance on visual storytelling, messaging hierarchy, and design best practices.
- Lead planning and execution of design projects from kickoff through final delivery, ensuring timelines, expectations, and deliverables are clearly defined and met.
- Own creative development for major initiatives and divisional programs, including leadership communications, change initiatives and large-scale events.
- Contribute to defining and evolving creative standards, templates and visual systems that scale across the organization.
- Ensure all design work strengthens brand alignment and supports a cohesive, professional visual identity.
- Develop high-impact PowerPoint presentations for internal and external audiences.
- Design visual assets across a variety of formats, including presentations, campaign graphics, digital channels, event collateral and more.
Required
What you need:
- Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts, Advertising, Visual Communications, Marketing, or related field.
- Minimum 8 years of professional graphic design experience post Bachelors.
- Experience building marketing campaigns, digital, and physical materials in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro).
- Must be able to provide a portfolio showcasing a range of projects, with an emphasis on brand consistency, storytelling and impact
Preferred
- Experience working in a fast-paced, highly matrixed corporate environment
- Training on and/or experience with UI/UX fundamentals and digital content design
- Experience using collaborative platforms like Miro, FigJam, or Figma
- Demonstrated experience with project management tools such as Workfront, Asana, or
- Experience leading or contributing to large-scale events or campaigns (National Sales Meetings, product launches)
$89,300 - $148,800 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.
Posted on February 18, 2026
Posted Date: 02/18/2026
This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.
Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.
Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.
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