Designops Program Manager--AI Enablement--W2 Only

KAnand Corporation is seeking a DesignOps Program Manager for AI enablement. The role translates an AI vision into coordinated programs, pilots, and governance for design-system workflows, while measuring impact and supporting adoption by designers and engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Translate the AI vision into a portfolio of work tracks with clear problems, outcomes, owners, dependencies, milestones, decision points, and success measures
• Coordinate discovery and pilots spanning design-system knowledge, design-to-code, code-to-design, component recommendation and generation, automated documentation, accessibility and quality checks, contribution workflows, and agent-ready design-system data
• Define intake, prioritization, experimentation, and governance mechanisms for AI initiatives, including human review, responsible-AI considerations, quality thresholds, and escalation paths
• Establish learning loops and instrumentation to evaluate usefulness, accuracy, saved, adoption, quality, and downstream impact; use evidence to recommend when to stop, iterate, or scale a pilot
• Identify capability, tooling, data, and process gaps required to make Magnetic consumable by agents and automation—not only by people—and coordinate plans to close them
• Develop change-management and enablement plans that help designers and engineers adopt new AIsupported workflows with confidence

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience leading complex design, product, engineering, or platform programs with multiple

teams and interdependent workstreams

• Strong program-management fundamentals, including road mapping, planning, dependency and risk

management, operating cadences, metrics, reporting, and executive communication

• Experience working with design systems or adjacent platforms, developer-experience, product-design,

or front-end engineering programs

• Ability to translate ambiguous strategic goals into concrete programs, decisions, milestones, and

accountable follow-through

• Strong written and verbal communication, facilitation, synthesis, and stakeholder-management skills
• Comfort using structured workflow and reporting tools such as Airtable, Jira, spreadsheets, dashboards,

and collaborative documentation platforms

• Working knowledge of modern AI capabilities and limitations, with the judgment to manage

experimentation, quality, governance, and organizational change