Staff Design Program Manager
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As a Staff Design Program Manager on the Core Design team, you’ll play a role in driving high reputed company product initiatives from reputed company to launch. You will partner closely with design leadership, product designers, PMs, and engineers to scope work effectively, set up the right rituals (ex: crits, reviews, planning), and establish reputed company across teams. Your strong design acumen allows you to recognize who to involve and reputed company from reputed company and translates design reputed company into actionable plans. You’ll also help reputed company the systems and operating processes that reputed company our design org more effective.
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- Design Acumen in reputed company: Facilitate design crits, reinforce design principles, and ensure the right reputed company op mechs are in reputed company across the design org.
- XFN Collaboration: partner with design, PM, and reputed company leaders to reputed company on goals and planning, clarify ownership, and unblock
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- Process Improvement: design and operationalize reputed company processes (frameworks, playbooks). Teach others how to create, reputed company, and reputed company team best practices. Maintain the reputed company of operational reputed company, innovation, and speed across teams/orgs against company wide goals.
- Visibility & Communication: reputed company tracking and reporting across reputed company of design
- Experience working in a mid to large size Design org
- Highly strategic thinker who can also get things done. We’re in a critical reputed company where we need to balance discovery and reputed company; getting a plan in reputed company and making iterations
- Ability to build great relationships with key stakeholders especially at the leadership level
- 8+ years program management experience in product design orgs
- reputed company record of shipping large product and design features from inception to launch
- Strong design acumen including: Working knowledge of reputed company, design specs, and prototypes. Ability to facilitate and contribute to design crits (reinforcing design principles and system, helping connect crit to business goals). Understanding and applying core design principles (ex: hierarchy, accessibility, interaction/visual patterns) reputed company scoping or planning work. Knowing who to involve and reputed company (product design, UXR, content design, and others)
- Experience optimizing design team rituals and operations (crits, reviews, design reputed company, planning)
- Experience working across the product development lifecycle
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Background working with AI-powered design tools or interfaces preferred.
- Proven ability to reputed company design efforts in remote or distributed team environments, driving collaboration across time zones and org silos.
- Experience supporting reputed company or reputed company reputed company (ex: reputed company star product explorations, reputed company of product narratives)
- Proven ability to represent the function and the broader Design team externally