We create software for interior designers to help them manage projects, purchasing, and accounting. We pair our products with industry-specific resources, services, and partnerships that help designers knowledgeably grow their firms. We primarily serve residential interior design firms in the US, from solo designers to full-service, internationally-recognized luxury firms. Thousands of designers, principals, finance teams, and purchasers rely on Design Manager every day.

Our success and our clients’ success are one.
We exist to help design firms succeed, and to do that, we work hard to understand our clients. We need to be active and curious listeners to understand our customers’ problems and goals. We ask why, not just what, to ensure the work we do is impactful to designers. Our products, services, and people are instilled with a sense of pride in creating the best experience for design firms.
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Our standards are purposefully very high.
‍We take pride in creating usable, beautiful, and functional software and fantastic customer experiences. Product quality comes from rigorously understanding customer problems and defining solutions comprehensively. We iterate over ideas and designs until we are confident the solutions we release meet designers’ high standards and move the needle for our customers.

Celebrate open communication.
We are open and honest about the business and our performance. We learn together through successes and failures, and are open about both. Feedback is welcomed at all levels, and can be directed toward individuals, strategies, plans, etc. Transparency and openness facilitate a growth mindset in order to learn and succeed together.firms.
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Be a problem eliminator, not just a problem identifier.
We’re never satisfied with the status quo and are always looking to improve and disrupt ourselves. We collaborate to understand root causes in order to make confident decisions and execute without hesitation. Even when we need to address a problem today, ultimately we’re focused on long term solutions.

We are all pushing to make Design Manager awesome, even though each person has a different approach to getting there.
We debate robustly, and when we commit to a solution, we move forward together as a team. Despite competing ideas and varying communications styles, we value each other’s time and talents. Help each other grow and challenge each other to maintain high standards. Remember that we each have something to offer and will achieve more together.
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Data Informed = Better Decisions
We make better decisions when we use data, so we actively seek data to support our assumptions. Augmenting our experience with customer data gives us confidence in our decisions and ensures we are making the biggest impact possible with finite resources.
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You can be serious without a suit.
Bring your best self to work each day by owning your attitude and finding the best activities to recharge. Keep perspective when the unexpected happens; we can work it out as a team. We’ll do some pretty amazing things as a group, but always remember there is more to life than Design Manager.