Design Manager“Shaping the brand through inspired design and empowered teams.”“Creativity led with purpose, clarity, and collaboration.”Join Our Team

Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR) provides technology and solutions to industrial and energy customers worldwide. With more than a century of experience and a global footprint in more than 120 countries, we are rewriting The Energy Equation™, making energy safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet. Visit us at bakerhughes.com.

Fuel your passion

The Design Manager leads and develops an in‑house creative team responsible for delivering high‑quality, on‑brand creative content across marketing, digital, and internal channels. This role balances hands‑on creative direction, people leadership, and operational excellence, ensuring design work supports business objectives while maintaining brand integrity and creative standards. It partners closely with marketing, communications, product, and business stakeholders to translate ideas into compelling visual stories that align with the Baker Hughes brand program.

As a Design Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Executing visual identity across all touchpoints, ensuring consistency with brand standards and messaging.

• Providing creative direction and feedback across design projects including digital, print, presentations, and campaigns.

• Translating business objectives and complex ideas into compelling visual solutions.

• Acting as a brand guardian, ensuring all creative output meets quality, accessibility, and compliance standards.

• Team Leadership & Development

• Leading and developing members of the Creative Content Studio team.

• Setting clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and support professional growth and skill development.

• Fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high‑performance creative culture.

• Managing resource planning, workload balance, and prioritization across multiple projects.

• Project & Workflow Management

• Overseeing the end‑to‑end creative workflow, from intake and briefing through final delivery.

• Partnering with marketing, communications, product, and other stakeholders to define scope, timelines, and deliverables.

• Ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with business priorities.

• Continuously improve creative processes, tools, and ways of working to increase efficiency and quality.

• Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Serving as the primary creative point of contact for internal stakeholders.

• Collaborating closely with marketing, product marketing, communications, and leadership teams.

• Presenting creative concepts and recommendations to stakeholders and senior leaders with confidence and clarity.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have bachelor’s degree in graphic design or a related field

• 7–10+ years of professional design experience, with several years in a leadership or management role.

• Have proven experience leading creative teams in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven environment.

• Having a strong portfolio demonstrates strategic thinking, brand consistency, and creative excellence.

• Expert-level abilities with Adobe Creative Suite, and Microsoft Office software. Motion or interactive design experience is a plus.

• Design skills are foundational to the skill set of the successful candidate; more important, however, are the following attributes:

• Strong creative judgment and attention to detail

• Have an Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Have an ability to balance creative vision with business needs

• People leadership, coaching, and performance management

• Strong organizational and project management capabilities

• Comfort presenting and influencing at multiple organizational leve

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

One of our core values as a business is collaboration and, as such, whilst flexible work options are available, we believe there is a great benefit of having our teams co-located in one of our many offices in the United Kingdom.Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

• Comprehensive private medical care options

• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

• Tailored financial programs

• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

This position requires valid work authorization in the country of employment. The employer is unable to sponsor work authorization for this role at any time.

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found

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• The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Communications Manager
• Customer/Marketing Comm