Project/Program Manager

Aditi Consulting is seeking a Senior UX Program Manager to operate with a high degree of independence and ownership in defining program strategy. The role involves promoting operational excellence and process improvement while collaborating with cross-functional teams to streamline workflows and optimize practices within UX engineering and design functions.

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior UX Program Manager, you will operate with a high degree of independence and ownership in areas where program strategy is still being defined
• Your knowledge and experience in product, software, and user experience design will inform your decisions
• You have successfully established and managed various design-related processes, resources, and programs that have yielded measurable results
• You are adept at evolving, improving, and simplifying processes that scale across multiple teams and methodologies
• You excel at driving clarity and alignment among partners and stakeholders
• In this role, you will promote operational excellence, process improvement, and team enablement across UX engineering & design functions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to streamline workflows and optimize work practices that align up to a enterprise structure

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience
• 8 + years of successful experience as a UX Producer or Program/Project Manager, Engineering Program/Project manager leading large projects through the full product development life cycle in a large, cross-functional team
• Experience a must with the following tools (e.g., Figma, Azure Dev Ops Confluence and Aha!)
• Experience with resource planning and program delivery
• Experience working with project playbooks, building schedules, managing issues/risks, and establishing communication plans
• Strong knowledge of project management tools and methodologies (Agile to Waterfall)
• Experience managing product development portfolios working cross collaboratively with Product, Engineering, Platform, UX Design and Research
• Strong ability to effectively manage cross functional projects, dependencies and bottlenecks
• Experience escalating issues and anticipating and making hard trade-offs between business and customer need
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with tight deadlines pivoting as necessary in a fast-paced environment
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously with minimal supervision
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive through to delivery