Senior Program Manager, Design – International

Role Overview

• As a Senior Design Program Manager (DPM) supporting international expansion initiatives, you will work closely with our Design Leads and cross-functional partners to drive delivery of quarterly and annual roadmap objectives and ensure that what we promise in our international roadmap is what we deliver in our product.
• You will drive tight alignment of activities across international and global teams through cross-functional planning and strong communication.
• In this role, you are responsible for driving end-to-end scoping, planning, execution, and launch of design programs to deliver success for our product, hosts, and guests.
• You will also serve as the bridge between critical business functions, aligning stakeholders, providing visibility into the workstreams’ progress, elevating risks, and guiding the team through the process of bringing our work to life.
• You will partner with Global Design Ops Leadership to provide insight on program progress and raise any red flags that could affect delivery.
• Initiate, drive, and launch projects by aligning Design, Product Management, and Engineering teams on critical features (via the roadmap)
• Manage workstream scope, resourcing, reviews, approvals, timelines, and workflow management
• Manage team operating rhythm, including communication structures, workflow, project templates, leadership cadence for managing design quality of our product
• Provide up-to-date visibility into current projects, resource utilization, team performance and product health across your teams
• Drive integration of the various disciplines within the design org (research, writing, localization, production design)
• Manage how the design team interfaces with other functions such as product management, engineering, external partners and marketing
• Uphold standards and best practices, ensure the design process and tools are applied
• Identify and predict obstacles, collisions, and risk to projects across multiple teams and seek solutions to eliminate them
• Develop strong working relationships with business teams to understand goals and priorities across the company

Requirements

• BA/BS with 7+ years Consulting, Program Management, Product Management, Project Management or relevant experience
• Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions. You can take a vague problem, crisply frame the challenge, identify a path forward, and drive an initiative over the finish-line.
• Track record of managing and shipping impactful design initiatives in a large digital product org
• Long-term strategic thinking balanced with near-term execution skills. Distinctive problem solving skills
• Proven ability to build strong relationships and influence business leaders
• Demonstrable skills and experience in mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution
• Demonstrated track record successfully managing ambitious and operationally complex projects with cross-functional teams
• Experience in structuring and implementing initiatives at scale with design and product teams
• Background in establishing systems: experience developing processes where little exists, and demonstrated flexibility to get things done.
• Passionate and enthusiastic about organizational excellence and attention to detail
• Thrives in ambiguity in a fast-paced, hyper-growth organization
• Deep knowledge of and appreciation for the Product Design process (preferred)
• Experience with or understanding of cross-functional (pm, design & eng) product-driven organizations or digital agency (preferred)