Visual Studio Manager
$90,000–$100,000 year
Remote · Rochester, New York, United States
Job Summary
Visual Studio Manager leads a fast-moving design studio for a Fortune 50 client, delivering high-quality visual materials while personally designing and producing work and guiding a team of designers, freelancers, and vendors. The role serves as the primary client and studio point of contact during assigned coverage shifts, managing daily intake, prioritization, creative direction, staffing coverage, recruitment, task reporting, quality control, and vendor coordination. It requires hands-on design capability, strong people-management and client-service skills, and the ability to balance workloads in a rotating 365-day coverage model with weekend/holiday commitments. Key duties include designing across digital/print/environmental applications, providing creative direction, leveraging AI tools to accelerate exploration, ensuring brand and confidentiality standards, coordinating with stakeholders and partners, and maintaining real-time capacity and status reporting. The position emphasizes leadership, brand stewardship, and operational discipline within a collaborative, non-traditional schedule.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Art, Marketing, Advertising, Communications, or related field (preferred).
- Proven and relevant experience in visual design, production design, creative operations, project coordination, studio management, or agency/client-service environments.
- Experience leading or functionally managing designers, production artists, freelancers, contractors, or a small creative studio team.
- Experience with shift-based coverage models, client-facing task reporting, intake systems, status trackers, workload balancing, recruiting, onboarding, and creative team operations.
- Strong visual design, layout, typography, composition, hierarchy, image selection, and brand system skills.
- Proficiency with Mac OS and Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat); working knowledge of Figma.
- Deep print production expertise (bleeds, crops, color profiles, resolution, packaging, proofing, vendor-ready files).
- Experience preparing files for print and coordinating with vendors.
- Confidential client materials handling and professional communication.
- Ability to recruit, interview, onboard, train, and provide feedback to designers and contractors.
- Ability to lead, coach, schedule, and motivate a small creative or production design team.
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