About the position
As Design Program Manager, you will play a critical role in driving the success of AI and Health features by providing operational leadership, strategic guidance, and hands-on support to our product designers. You will be responsible for ensuring seamless collaboration, effective communication, and efficient project execution across multiple stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Manage and optimize design operations that directly contribute to the execution of a team's product roadmap.
- Make design work happen with speed and quality by seeking clarity on goals and priorities.
- Develop design program or operational product strategy independently, scope and prioritize resources and workload appropriately while identifying gaps and creating solutions and program plans.
- Identify and deliver work in highly complex areas that have many dependencies, working with cross-functional stakeholders to get buy-in and feedback at the appropriate design stages.
- Navigate complex product and design organization using your understanding of interconnectedness of problems, features or products within larger systems.
- Provide operational support to product designers, including project planning, resource allocation, and risk management.
- Establish and maintain effective communication channels to keep stakeholders informed of project progress, issues, and changes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product design, engineering, and product management, to ensure alignment and successful project outcomes.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement changes to increase efficiency and quality.
- Develop workback schedules, sprint and resource plans to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- Foster a work environment of innovation, creativity, and continuous learning within the design organization.
- Support hardware and software design prototyping efforts and testing.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience working with SW or HW product teams
- Experience working with engineering or technical teams directly
- Experience executing on an established rhythm of business, running a team through a project plan, and managing pivots along the path to delivery.
- Detail oriented and organized both individually and at team scale
- Experience working with external vendors, including sourcing and negotiating
- Experience in developing product quality standards and design operations
- Experience using data to identify problems and communicate solutions
- Track record of bridging the gap between engineering, product and design.
- Resourcefulness and problem solving
- Previous Hardware experience.
- Previous mixed reality or wearables experience.
- Experience and knowledge of AI tools.
