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UX Design Program Manager

San Francisco, CA 94103

Posted: 01/16/2025 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Account & Project Management Job Number: 628077 Country: United States Is job remote?: Yes

Job Description

UX Design Program Manager

Location: Fully remote
Duration: through end of 2025
Pay: up to $86.35/hour, DOE
 
Planet Interactive is looking for a UX Design Program Manager
to join our well known lifestyle brand technology client on an 11-month contract. This is a full-time, 40 hour per week role working a fully remote schedule.

UX Design Program Manager Responsibilities:
  • Partner with Design leadership and primary stakeholder to create a strategic project plan for the assigned design team based on a business need.
  • Partner with Design leads to define primary stakeholders, determine scope, and gain leadership and XFN support for design programs based on the predefined project goals.
  • Execute design programs ensuring the program team meets deadlines, tracking against design milestones and following up on action items through owning all program documentation and operations including communication plans, forums, and meeting cadences as required.
  • Work cross functionally with teams internal and external to Design to turn ambiguous opportunities into actionable outcomes.
  • Define and standardize new processes from the ground up to streamline collaboration between stakeholders and manage design partnerships across multiple teams.
  • Advocate for the customer, ensure design, content & research is part of the product development process.
  • Manage risk by proactively raising issues around programs before they become a roadblock, and work quickly to resolve any issues that may arise.
  • Create transparency by acting as the point of contact for programs, providing regular updates and decisions to stakeholders and ensuring updates are visible within the company.
  • Report on the success of programs and completing project closeout steps, post-mortems, and/or leading any follow up iterative work.
UX Design Program Manager Qualifications:
  • 5-7 years product design program management experience or equivalent
  • Risk management experience is a huge plus
  • Proficient in JIRA, other project management software a plus
  • SCRUM, Agile, or PMP certifications 
  •  Demonstrated proficiency in design program management across multiple product surfaces 
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as exceptional organizational and time management skills.
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