Design Operations Lead

Nordic Investin Group • Stockholm, ME

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About The Position

Nordic Investin is recruiting a Design Operations Lead on behalf of one of our partner companies. The partner is strengthening its capability in design operations that improve planning, quality and collaboration at scale. You will take responsibility for work that connects portfolio planning, rituals and tooling, while ensuring that design quality and supplier coordination receive appropriate discipline. The objective is progress that colleagues can use and leaders can evaluate. The design function values evidence, critique and close collaboration. Success means making complexity understandable and enabling better choices. You will join a multidisciplinary team and move between discovery, design, delivery and learning after launch. The partner expects assumptions to be made visible, prototypes to answer real questions and design decisions to remain understandable when they reach engineering and operations. This role calls for visible leadership and disciplined decision making. You will be expected to recognise when a decision needs wider expertise, make trade-offs visible and move work forward without creating unnecessary process.

Requirements

• Relevant experience delivering design operations that improve planning, quality and collaboration at scale in a demanding environment.
• Strong working knowledge of portfolio planning and rituals.
• Practical experience applying tooling and design quality.
• Ability to assess risk, priorities and trade-offs involving supplier coordination.
• Evidence of clear stakeholder communication and dependable end-to-end ownership.
• Professional English and the judgement to work with sensitive or business-critical information.

Nice To Haves

• Experience from mature design organisations or multi-product businesses.
• Exposure to capability development in a cross-functional environment.
• Swedish language skills or experience working across Nordic organisations.

Responsibilities

• Own the practical direction for design operations that improve planning, quality and collaboration at scale.
• Translate goals and constraints into a clear approach for portfolio planning and rituals.
• Establish useful standards, routines or artefacts around tooling.
• Coordinate stakeholders and dependencies affecting design quality.
• Use evidence and measurable outcomes to improve supplier coordination.
• Strengthen knowledge sharing, decision quality and sustainable ownership across the team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed