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JOB TITLE: Design QA Manager
Position Summary:
The Design QA Manager is an individual contributor responsible for ensuring all creative output meets athenahealth’s brand standards, quality requirements, and executional expectations. This role serves as a critical quality control and brand governance function across a wide range of marketing deliverables, with a focus on work produced through freelance resources, AI-enabled workflows, self-service templates, and internal stakeholders.
This role is highly hands-on and will actively review, edit, and correct assets to ensure consistency, accuracy, and polish before final delivery. The Design QA Manager is empowered to identify issues, push back on work that does not meet brand requirements, and help raise the overall standard of execution across marketing materials. In addition to quality oversight, this role will also identify opportunities to improve production processes and drive greater efficiency over time.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
Review, assess, and quality check creative materials across all channels and formats to ensure alignment with brand standards and executional requirements
Maintain strong brand governance across all deliverables, ensuring consistency in visual identity, tone, formatting, and overall presentation
Focus review and refinement efforts on a wide range of marketing assets, including:
PowerPoint decks
Social media assets
Paid media creative
Print collateral such as datasheets and case studies
Email marketing assets
Edit, correct, and refine creative work as needed to bring materials to a polished, final state
Confidently give feedback when work that does not meet brand, quality, or execution standards
Partner closely with marketing stakeholders to ensure deliverables are accurate, consistent, and ready for use
Identify and recommend opportunities to improve production workflows, streamline repeatable tasks, and increase efficiency
Support the ongoing elevation of creative quality across all marketing outputs
Expected Education & Experience:
5–7 years of experience in design production, creative quality assurance, or brand-focused marketing design
Deep experience working within established brand guidelines and maintaining visual consistency across channels
Strong portfolio or background demonstrating high standards in design execution and asset refinement
Experience reviewing and editing a broad range of marketing materials, including presentations, digital assets, print collateral, and email
Strong attention to detail and a highly critical eye for quality, accuracy, and consistency
Ability to provide clear, direct, and constructive feedback in a collaborative environment
Comfort working independently and exercising sound judgment when evaluating creative work
Strong communication and partnership skills, particularly with marketing teams and creative contributors
Experience with production workflows and an interest in identifying operational improvements
Experience reviewing work produced through AI-assisted workflows, freelance teams, or template-based production models
Familiarity with marketing production processes and asset management practices
Ability to balance speed, quality, and brand consistency in a fast-moving environment
A proactive mindset focused on improving quality, efficiency, and executional excellence
Expected Compensation
$85,000 - $145,000The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
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