Manager Design

Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum. Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges.

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At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

Solve Studio is Solventum’s in-house creative studio—built to move with the speed, craft and ambition of a modern agency. As we bring a newly launched global brand to life, we’re building the creative foundation, operating model and culture that will shape how Solventum shows up in the world.

This role is for a senior creative leader—someone compensated and expected to lead at a Creative Director level
, while holding the title of Design Manager
. You’ll partner closely with the Senior Director, Creative at Solve Studio to define creative direction, elevate craft, and help establish the studio’s creative and operational rhythm at a pivotal moment of growth.

• Lead visual design across high-impact and highly executional company initiatives – setting creative direction and ensuring exceptional craft across design, activations, photography, video, motion and emerging media.
• Function as a heads‑on creative leader who can move fluidly between concepting, art direction, constructive critique and execution when needed.
• Translate brand strategy into compelling visual systems and storytelling—bringing Solventum’s newly launched brand to life with clarity, consistency and originality.
• Establish and uphold creative standards, ensuring all work reflects best‑in‑class design thinking and execution.
• Represent Solve Studio within the organization modeling trust, credibility, and partnership, including selectively engaging with external agency partners.

• Partner closely with the Senior Director, Creative of Solve Studio to advocate the studio’s creative vision, team structure and ways of working.
• Mentor and develop designers and creative partners—fostering a culture of curiosity, accountability, inclusion and creative confidence.
• Play a key role in building an in‑house team from the ground up, helping define roles, workflows and expectations as the studio scales.
• Create an environment where creative talent can do their best work while feeling supported, challenged and inspired.

• Oversee and contribute to integrated visual storytelling across channels, including brand campaigns, marketing assets, digital experiences, photography and video.
• Partner with writers, brand strategists, project managers, producers and marketers to ensure visual and narrative cohesion across initiatives.
• Guide art…