Design Manager

Overview

The Design Manager provides operational and people leadership within the Experience Designorganization. This role manages the flow of Design work across the portfolio—coordinating intake,assessing priorities and capacity, helping determine the right Design support for each need, removingobstacles, developing talent, and strengthening how Design works with Product and Engineering. Thisrole also carries day-to-day portfolio coordination and requirements-related responsibilities as part of abroadened scope of operational ownership within Design.As the organization evolves toward AI-native product development, the Design Manager helps the teamadapt to changing ways of working while maintaining consistency and alignment across the Designportfolio. This includes helping teams apply shared Design practices, standards, and the design systemin ways that create coherent experiences and enable Design to work effectively at scale.

Responsibilities

As a Design leader and operational partner, you'll be asked to handle responsibilities including:

Operational Leadership

• Provide day-to-day operational leadership for the Design organization, ensuring work is appropriately staffed, prioritized, and progressing.
• Monitor team capacity, workload, priorities, and commitments across the portfolio; identify risks, conflicts, and resource gaps and work with partners to resolve them.
• Establish clarity around what the team is working on, why it matters, and what is needed to move work forward.
• Serve as a working backstop on day-to-day projects, stepping in to execute Design work directly when capacity constraints or urgent timelines require it.
• Help designers and cross-functional partners navigate shifting priorities, dependencies, and competing demands.
• Improve team processes, tools, and ways of working to support efficient, high-quality Design delivery.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to improve how Design work flows through product development and ensure Design is effectively integrated into planning, prioritization, and delivery.
• Identify opportunities to reduce friction, improve collaboration, and make Design easier to engage and work with.
• Help establish and reinforce shared Design practices, standards, and expectations across the organization.

People and Capability Leadership

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop the team, creating an environment where people can do meaningful work and grow their capabilities.
• Provide clear expectations, regular feedback, performance management, and career development support.
• Identify individual and team capability gaps and create opportunities for learning, experimentation, and application through real work.
• Support designers in developing the skills needed to work effectively in an AI-native product development environment, including new tools, techniques, and ways of working.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, continuous learning, collaboration, accountability, and adaptability.
• Build a strong, inclusive team culture across geographic and organizational boundaries.
• Recruit and retain strong Design talent and contribute to staffing and organizational planning.
• Recognize and develop emerging leaders and help create opportunities for team members to expand their impact.

Cross-Functional Leadership and Partnership

• Build strong working relationships with Product, Engineering, and other business partners, facilitating effective collaboration and creating clarity around responsibilities and expectations.
• Represent Design in cross-functional planning and prioritization conversations, helping partners understand Design capacity, needs, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
• Bring the Design perspective to cross-functional discussions, ensuring customer needs and experience considerations are represented in product decisions.
• Communicate Design priorities, progress, risks, and opportunities clearly to leaders and cross-functional partners.

Design Practice and Organizational Evolution

• Contribute to the evolution of the Experience Design organization, its operating model, shared practices, and standards.
• Help advance a consistent, scalable approach to Design across products and teams.
• Support the continued development and adoption of the organization's design system, patterns, guidelines, and best practices.
• Contribute to documentation of workflows, processes, and decision points that support consistent execution across the Design portfolio, and provide input into prioritization and sequencing of work.
• Stay current with emerging Design practices, AI capabilities, and approaches to AI-native product development and help translate relevant opportunities into practical team practices.
• Model adaptability and help the team successfully navigate changes in tools, processes, technology, and organizational priorities.
• Hire, develop, coach, lead and retain top-tier talent, with a focus on building and improving a team and culture that is able to assist in employing best in class practices to support and drive high levels of internal and external customer satisfaction.
• Complete all responsibilities as outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting.
• Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned.
• Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required. This job description does not constitute an employment agreement and is subject to change as the needs of Cotiviti and requirements of the job change.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Design or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in UX Design, Product Design, Interaction Design, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or developing designers or other creative professionals.
• Strong understanding of user-centered Design practices and the ability to provide thoughtful design guidance, feedback, and critique.
• Strong organizational and operational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, assess capacity, coordinate work across multiple teams, and make sound decisions about how Design resources are best utilized.
• Demonstrated ability to build effective working relationships with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional partners.
• Experience translating ambiguous stakeholder input into structured requirements or documented workflows, and willingness to move fluidly between managing the team's work and personally executing it.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to create clarity and build alignment across different perspectives and levels of the organization.
• Ability to work effectively in an environment of changing priorities, ambiguity, and evolving ways of working.
• Demonstrated experience designing AI-driven experiences, including designing for uncertainty, trust, transparency, and human decision-making.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools to augment Design work, improve productivity, or explore new approaches to Design.
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and adapting to new tools, technologies, and approaches to Design.
• The ideal candidate will bring a strong Design foundation, operational leadership skills, and the ability to lead and develop others while adapting to evolving ways of working.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional product development environment.
• Experience with design systems, shared Design practices, standards, or guidelines.
• Experience working with accessibility or inclusive Design practices.
• Experience coordinating Design work across multiple products, projects, or teams.
• Experience developing team capabilities through learning, experimentation, and application in real work.
• Experience helping teams or organizations navigate changes in processes, tools, technology, or ways of working.

Cognitive/Mental Requirements:

• Problem-solving and critical thinking — navigating competing priorities, capacity constraints, staffing questions, dependencies, and unexpected issues.
• Judgment and decision-making — determining how Design resources should be allocated and making timely decisions when there isn't a clear answer.
• Planning and prioritization — managing multiple concurrent workstreams and determining what needs attention when.
• Information synthesis — taking in information from multiple sources and perspectives and forming a clear understanding of priorities, risks, and needs.
• Pattern recognition — identifying trends in workload, capacity, team capability, and organizational needs.
• Adaptability and learning — quickly learning new tools, technologies, and ways of working and applying them to changing circumstances.
• Communication and collaboration — processing and communicating information effectively with people across Design, Product, Engineering, and leadership.
• Coaching and interpersonal judgment — understanding individual strengths, development needs, and team dynamics and responding appropriately.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Must be able to provide a dedicated, secure work area.
• Must be able to provide high-speed internet access / connectivity and office setup and maintenance.

Base compensation ranges from $135,000 to $165,000 per year. Specific offers are determined by various factors, such as experience, education, skills, certifications, and other business needs. 

Cotiviti offers team members a competitive benefits package to address a wide range of personal and family needs, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage, 401(k) savings plans, paid family leave, 9 paid holidays per year, and 17-27 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, depending on specific level and length of service with Cotiviti. For information about our benefits package, please refer to our Careers page.

This role is based remotely and all interviews will be conducted virtually.

Date of posting: 10/19/2026

Applications are assessed on a rolling basis. We anticipate that the application window will close on 12/19/2026, but the application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.

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