Design Manager

About Us: Trilliant Food & Nutrition is a leading manufacturer of premium coffees and powdered beverages, proudly headquartered in Little Chute, Wisconsin.

With a legacy rooted in quality, innovation, and service, Trilliant delivers branded and private label solutions across retail, foodservice, and e-commerce channels.

Horseshoe Beverage Company, based in Neenah, WI, is a leading ready-to-drink beverage manufacturer dedicated to delivering an exceptional beverage experience.

By combining industry-leading talent and cutting-edge equipment, we drive innovation and consistently deliver the highest quality products to our customers--first and fast.

Our brand portfolio includes Victor Allen's®, Dutch Bros® beverages and Nurri™, our better-for-you protein beverage line.

We are passionate about beverages - and about building a team that's just as energized.

We invite you to explore opportunities at Trilliant or Horseshoe, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.

Our Core Values: Position Overview: Reporting to the Director of Creative, the Design Manager, Licensed Brands is a senior design leader responsible for setting the standard for design excellence, both strategic and operational, across critical brand touchpoints and channels for our partnered licensed brand(s).

This role leads the creation, development, execution and governance of compelling design systems and solutions, partnering closely with internal teams, and at times external agencies, to deliver world-class creative quality at scale.

This leader inspires teams, influences senior stakeholders, and ensures design consistently elevates our partner brands and the Trilliant brand in ways that advance business objectives.

Responsibilities: Design Excellence: · Shape design strategies in alignment with business priorities, growth ambitions and evolving marketing conditions.

· Translate business, consumer and cultural insights into strong design direction and solutions.

· Lead design from ideation through commercialization, leveraging the full breadth of design disciplines.

· Build scalable systems, workflows and guardrails that enable speed, quality and consistency across markets and channels.

· Ensure flawless execution while driving timelines, managing dependencies and addressing risks proactively.

Leadership: · Influence senior leaders and key stakeholders to build alignment, momentum and decision clarity.

· Manage scopes of work, external partners and internal design operations with strong business discipline.

· Push for stronger, differentiated work that adheres to the brand and creative strategy and elevates the experience of brand - setting and maintaining the creative bar.

· Drive continuous improvement across design operations and commercialization process in partnership with the director of creative.

· Develop strong creative decks to present work confidently to stakeholders, external partners and cross-functionally, articulating the st...