DESIGN PROGRAM MANAGER
Location: Remote
Job Type: Contract
Compensation Range: $60 - 62 per hour
Our leading e-commerce client is looking for a skilled Design Program Manager to work collaboratively with their design, product and engineering teams. In this role you will help designers work within an Agile framework as a shared resource across multiple scrum teams and improve existing processes and explore new ways for design to work.
The ideal candidate has experience in the JIRA environment.
Responsibilities:
- Actively lead the design team and is recognized by stakeholders as UED's single Point-of-Contact.
- Act as scrum master for UED team backlog: attends release planning, runs stand ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies, as required.
- Track all major project milestones and deliverables.
- Ensure that design sprint plans meet broader timelines for any dependencies with our technology organization and business partners.
- Oversee design resource allocation, ensuring design resources are not over or under allocated.
- Identify project risks and formulates and implements risk mitigation techniques to minimize issues.
- Demonstrate the ability to handle project ambiguity and lead delivery teams to identify creative solutions.
- Schedule and manage team meetings and communicates assignments to ensure timely delivery, while also ensuring meetings are efficient and minimized.
- Support the design team's implementation of standards and design guidelines.
- Ensure all applicable reviews and sign-offs are in place.
- Create partnerships with Product and Technology organizations, particularly the Product PGM to drive end-to-end execution.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelors
- 5+ years of applicable eCommerce design experience, preferably in project and program management.
- Experience working closely with designers and partners.
- Agile experience desired.
- User Experience background is highly desired, but not required.
- Excellent communications & interpersonal skills.
Job ID: 987448