UX Program Manager

7 days ago

Chicago, United States TEKsystems Full time

Our enterprise client is looking for a Design Program Manager to join their team

MUST be able to work as a W2 employee - no C2C

Description

We’re looking for a Design Program Manager to support two product workstreams and our Design System through the adoption process. You'll establish efficient and effective working practices between the teams that contribute to our design system adoption, and amplify the effectiveness of this complex, cross-disciplinary program. Your secondary focus will be streamlining our design process across two product design teams and help the design operations team establish best practices in how we scale across the organization to keep us innovating.

Top Skills' Details

1. 7+ years as a UX/Design Producer, UX/Design Program Manager, Project Manager, or validated experience in a product focused organization, design consultancy or creative agency (college degree required)

2. You understand the role of design systems in large product companies. Ideally you have managed teams who have set one up or have worked with teams who are active users of a system.

3. It is essential you have extensive experience working in program management roles working with both design and engineering teams. Experience working with large design teams (20+) is especially key.

Typical task breakdown:

-Designing and facilitating processes to track and communicate progress across the program of work, ensuring teams are on track.

-Help define roles and responsibilities and facilitate decision-making, surface risks and challenges, and help resolve blockers.

-Drive the overall system roadmap: helping teams define scope, deliverables, and schedules, and coordinating release planning across multiple teams for multiple stakeholders

-Create and socialize processes for how designers and engineers will adopt and contribute to the system

-Organize roadshows and trainings on the design system to our product teams

-Define and track KPIs to monitor the success of the design system product and find creative ways to help the system teams connect with their objectives.

-Enable continuous improvement during the project, ensuring insights are captured, shared, and integrated

-Maintain high-level familiarity with the design system and work across product teams to evangelize the design system’s value and engagement model.

-Provide operational strategy for sophisticated problems associated with a growing organization and limited design resources.

-Supervise and continuously communicate project status with team, collaborators, and senior management.

-Schedule and facilitate kickoffs, internal and cross-functional design reviews, standups, retrospectives and handoffs with engineering

-Provide design enablement guidance as a strategic partner to help teams in design system adoption

-Lead or collaborate with UX team in key project decision-making, including requirements gathering, scheduling, resource allocation, and coordination of teams and approval processes

-Uphold UX standards and best practices and help identify areas for improvement

Skills

Project management, Ux, Ux design, design system, figma

Top Skills Details

Project management,Ux,Ux design,design system,figma

Additional Skills & Qualifications

-Experience leading UX projects with various project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.), with a passion to drive towards more agile practices

-Experience managing workflows, project plans and driving execution

-Knowledge of design process, design thinking, and user-centered design approaches

-Excellent written and verbal communication and strong meeting facilitation skills

-Ability to convey business needs through design objectives to key stakeholders

-Experience advocating for UX within groups of cross-functional collaborators

-You have history and experience in delivering products to market.

-You have experience running large, cross-functional programs and can easily communicate status at a moment’s notice.

-You're flexible and use your judgment to apply the model and approach that best fit with the context.

Experience Level

Expert Level

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $65.00

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position will be accepting applications until Dec 19, 2024.

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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