As Design Operations Manager, you will own and evolve the operating model that enables our design and motion teams to do their best work. You will sit at the center of our creative ecosystem, connecting people, processes, partners, and priorities across a diverse portfolio of work.
Compensation
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $205,785—$242,100 USD
Responsibilities
Define and own the design and motion operating model for Creative Studio, including how work is planned, resourced, prioritized, reviewed, delivered, and reported.
Set resource and capacity strategy across a broad portfolio of creative work, balancing business priorities, timelines, skill sets, and team health.
Build and scale a global ecosystem of contract talent, agencies, and production partners, including sourcing, onboarding, engagement, and management of external partner performance.
Establish operating rhythms, planning systems, and reporting that give senior stakeholders clear visibility into capacity, priorities, risks, and delivery.
Lead high-impact design and motion initiatives across multiple workstreams, ensuring the work meets a high bar for quality, scope, timeliness, and brand expression.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in design, business, communications, or a related field
The Design Operations Principal Associate plays a central role in enabling design, product, and operations teams to move faster by strategically thinking about how teams work together and designing systems to scale.
Compensation
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location... Plano, TX: $119,400 - $136,200
Responsibilities
Execute a design team’s business operations
Report on KPIs, execute design rituals, culture, and foster overall positive team health
Support onboarding of new and returning employees
Engage with associates and leaders to identify and solve complex problems that increase ROI of design teams
Maintain and scale design standards and practices across portfolios
The Design Operations Manager serves as the central point of coordination for the design organization, ensuring creative projects are prioritized, resourced and executed effectively across the business.
Responsibilities
Lead the intake, prioritization, scheduling and tracking of all design projects and requests.
Manage project workflows and distribute workload based on team capacity and business priorities.
Facilitate prioritization discussions and recommend staffing, outsourcing or resource allocation solutions when demand exceeds available capacity.
Establish project timelines, milestones and deliverables, and track milestones, action items and approvals.
Monitor project status and proactively identify dependencies, risks and bottlenecks.
Lead the design and implementation of Dyson’s creative operating model, driving cross‑functional transformation across creative, design, production and marketing teams.
Responsibilities
Define and evolve Dyson’s end‑to‑end creative operating model
Establish scalable workflows for briefing, planning, creation, review, approval, localisation and activation
Create governance frameworks, standards and performance measures
Drive simplification of complex workflows and reduce operational friction
Ensure clear ownership, accountability and decision‑making throughout the content lifecycle
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