Senior Design Manager
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At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.
Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Design Manager to join our team!
What You'll Be Doing:
Defining and communicating a clear design vision, standards, and guidelines across projects and platforms.
Owning the end-to-end design process from discovery and research through concept development, detailed design, and delivery.
Collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and other stakeholders to align design solutions with business goals, user needs, and technical constraints.
Providing hands-on creative direction and thoughtful feedback on design work to ensure quality, consistency, and usability.
Establishing, evolving, and maintaining design systems and component libraries to create scalable and cohesive experiences.
Championing user-centered design, accessibility, and inclusive practices across all touchpoints.
Using data, research, and experimentation to inform and iterate on design decisions.
Presenting design concepts, rationale, and outcomes to cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
Contributing to resource planning, project prioritization, and design team operations to ensure timely and effective delivery.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
Min 10 years of experience
Proven track record managing or leading design teams on complex, multi-stakeholder projects or products.
Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality design work and measurable impact on user experience and business outcomes.
Deep understanding of user-centered design, interaction design, information architecture, and visual design principles.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain design decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!
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COMPETITIVE BENEFIT OFFERINGS
Financial Wellness
We care about your financial wellbeing. Parsons offers competitive pay and retirement plans to help you build wealth for the future while giving you the flexibility to diversify your investments.
Work Life Harmony
Balance in life is important and time away from the office is imperative to allow you to refresh and focus your attention on the things that matter to you. Parsons supports your time away by providing paid time off and paid flexible holidays.
Career Development
We are committed to fostering the personal and professional growth of our employees. Develop and advance yourself though our comprehensive training, educational and mentorship programs.
Veteran Support
We provide Industry leading benefits to support veterans and active-duty members to provide security for you and your family by offering robust leave and benefits; including paid active-duty military leave and paid time off when transitioning back to civilian life.
Mind & Body
At Parsons we inspire healthier habits, heathier minds, and a healthier you through our wellness program. Participate in our weekly Meditation Mondays and Wellness Wednesdays. Wellness, at Parsons, is more than just your annual checkup.
Health
Health is not a one size fits all. At Parsons, we offer a robust Employee Assistance Program as well as comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans through large, national carriers with the choice of regional PPO, HDHP, or HMO networks.

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