Design operation Program Manager

Overview

Senior Talent Specialist | Direct Hire & Contract Hiring | Connecting Top Talent with Game-Changing Opportunities. Base pay range: $70.00/hr - $80.00/hr this range is provided by IFG
- International Financial Group. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

This role will primarily focus on two areas:

• Creative Operations: Collaborate with design leaders and work closely with design teams to create and refine project briefs, prioritize tasks, and facilitate reviews to ensure alignment and optimize processes for achieving objectives.
• Production Operations: Create efficiencies in the design and production process, enabling designers to deliver high-quality work on time. Responsibilities include staff and resource planning, vendor management, and overseeing all aspects of delivering the team's work.

• Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leadership to develop understanding of product vision
• Drive design deliverables for each product cycle
• Refine Studio’s design process for maximum efficiency and quality output
• Operationalize design process and efficiency to increase productivity
• Manage design work items, scope and requirements
• Identify capacity and forecast for design workloads
• Partner with Design Managers to negotiate scope with partners and leadership according to bandwidth
• Facilitate design reviews and ensure actions are captured and communicated
• Review tools and processes to optimize cross-team collaboration
• Help track resourcing needs and initiate conversations on asks with Design Managers

• Experience:
  
  6+ years in the field
• Education:
  
  Degree or certification in interface business, engineering, design, or related field with significant industry experience
• Proficiency:
  Strong Microsoft Office/M365 tools, especially Excel

• Minimum 6+ years experience with program management; prior experience in design ops preferred
• Minimum 6+ years experience with modern project tracking software and Microsoft Office/M365 suite
• Minimum 6+ years experience with project management skills, including capacity tracking and prioritization

Performance will be assessed based on feedback from the design leader, focusing on quality, timeliness, proactivity, and relationship building.

• Mid-Senior level

• Contract

• Design

• Staffing and Recruiting

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