Full-Time Staff Design Program Manager

As a Staff Design Program Manager, you’ll play a role in driving high impact product initiatives from conception to launch. You will partner closely with design leadership, product designers, PMs, and engineers.

Your strong design acumen allows you to recognize who to involve and when from the team and translates design strategy into actionable plans. You’ll also help evolve the systems and operating processes that make our design org more effective.

This role requires a visionary leader who thrives in ambiguity, possesses exceptional problem-solving skills, and is passionate about creating an environment where designers can thrive and do their best work.

Responsibilities:

• Program Strategy & Delivery: drive large, complex product and design features from inception through launch, managing scope, dependencies, and timelines.
• Design Acumen in Practice: Facilitate design crits, reinforce design principles, and ensure the right quality op mechs are in place across the design org.
• XFN Collaboration: partner with design, PM, and eng leaders to align on goals and planning, clarify ownership, and unblock
• Rituals & Quality: optimize design crits, reviews, and design quality practices that raise the bar without slowing the team down
• Process Improvement: design and operationalize scalable processes (frameworks, playbooks). Teach others how to create, flex, and scale team best practices.
• Visibility & Communication: clear tracking and reporting across all of design

Requirements:

• Experience working in a mid to large size Design org
• Highly strategic thinker who can also get things done.
• Ability to build great relationships with key stakeholders especially at the leadership level
• 8+ years program management experience in product design orgs
• Track record of shipping large product and design features from inception to launch
• Strong design acumen
• Experience optimizing design team rituals and operations (crits, reviews, design quality, planning)
• Experience working across the product development lifecycle
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Background working with AI-powered design tools or interfaces preferred.
• Proven ability to lead design efforts in remote or distributed team environments, driving collaboration across time zones and org silos.
• Experience supporting vision or strategy projects
• Proven ability to represent the function and the broader Design team externally

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