Senior Design Operations Program Manager

Summary

Join Blink, a leading user experience firm, as a Senior Design Program Manager in our Embedded practice! This remote position, based in Atlanta, GA, focuses on enhancing operational processes within our product design organization. You will lead and execute the vision and strategy of design operational programs, collaborating with leadership and cross-functional partners. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in design project or program management, strong communication skills, and experience with Agile environments. You will manage program status, mitigate risks, and define and measure program impact. This is an ongoing opportunity with a competitive salary.

Requirements

• 8+ years of design project or program management experience within a product design organization, with experience working across accessibility, content design, engineering, product design, product management, and user experience research disciplines
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Experience collaborating with and developing and presenting materials to stakeholders—including Director and VP-level senior leadership
• A proven track record of partnering across a wide array of internal business groups, external marketing agencies, executive stakeholders and execution partners
• Ability to delegate tasks across multiple projects and work streams (resource management, capacity tracking, resource planning, risk mitigation, etc.)
• Experience with communication, workflow and creative asset management systems – such as Jira, Figma, Teams and similar tools
• Experience managing program and scrum teams in Agile environments

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute on the vision and strategy of design operational programs, in collaboration with leadership and cross-functional partners
• Manage complexity and navigate ambiguity across cross-functional teams
• Proactively examine, experiment, and measure improvements to design operational model, processes, and ways of working (e.g. automating tasks, improving workflows, developing repeatable methodologies), working closely with the Design Operations team and leadership to balance competing priorities to effectively and efficiently deliver impact
• Possess a proven track record of collaborating with and influencing product design leadership and cross-functional partners
• Strong capacity for leading change, dealing with ambiguity and proactively recommending, driving, and measuring operational process improvements, from inception of solution to delivery
• Require minimal to no supervision
• Develops and implements structured communications plan for programs
• Oversee and manage program status and health, mitigating risks, removing barriers efficiently and effectively to support team, and escalating when necessary
• Assess changes in scope and impact to budget and timeline, communicating effectively with both internal and external partners
• Provide status reports and timelines to cross-functional leadership teams and drive clear action towards goals and objectives
• Define and measure impact of program both quantitively and qualitatively— sharing best practices to strengthen design operations
• Facilitate collaboration and continuous improvement of processes and methodologies to strengthen ways of working across cross-functional teamsEvaluate & implement the industry’s best tools with other design program managers, researchers, designers and cross-functional partners to solve our growing need to collaborate globally

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree preferred