Senior Design Program Manager

- Lead end-to-end management of complex, cross-functional design initiatives from concept through launch, ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining design quality and craft. - Develop and implement scalable design processes that foster creativity, efficiency, and collaboration across teams. - Partner with design leadership to define design priorities aligned with key company goals. - Manage design resource allocation and capacity planning across multiple concurrent initiatives. - Orchestrate and build team rituals that focus on strategic alignment, decision-making, and execution, ensuring teams are on track while resolving blocks that impede progress. - Prioritize, assess tradeoffs, propose clear solutions and communicate design strategy and progress persuasively to the right audience to get buy-in and feedback. - Sought out as the operations subject-matter expert to the design team and trusted leader to cross-functional partners. - 5+ years of professional experience in design program management, design operations, or related roles. - A track record of working directly with product design teams and cross-functional partners, ensuring delivery of high-quality design solutions. - Proven track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder design projects in consumer technology or gaming companies. - Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive consensus across diverse teams. - Experience with project management methodologies and tools (Agile, Jira, Confluence).