Job Title: Design Program Manager III
Location: Remote
Duration: 8 months (possibility of extension)
 
Job Description

• Design Program Managers at Client are connectors and problem solvers. By supporting the various aspects of the product teams, you will enable teams to focus their time on designing, building, and shipping products. You will improve team communication, collaboration, and remove roadblocks. Finally, you'll utilize a full range of organizational and demonstrated track experience in communicating with clients and customers to drive positive impact. You will help keep our teams on track, execute specific design initiatives intended to grow team health, subject-matter knowledge, and team impact, and you'll have an opportunity to work with cross-functional teams as you establish great ways of working together.
• Team is looking for a Design Program Manager to support design operations for the Spaces Creation Design team, a fast-paced, high-intensity, high-visibility, and high-impact team. The Spaces Pillar creates dynamic and interconnected spaces that elevate social experiences. As part of the Spaces Creation Pillar, we’re building and empowering creators to build these spaces.

 
Expectations:

• Drive product initiatives forward that have multiple stakeholders, competing deadlines, and many moving parts.
• Prioritize, assess tradeoffs, propose clear solutions, and communicate effectively.
• Define and manage initiatives that improve product team efficiency and impact.
• Facilitate meetings to drive progress against goals and objectives and establish clear next steps and owners while resolving blocks that impede progress.
• Proactively assess risk, raise flags, and resolve issues before they become problems for the larger team(s).
• Support the management team with effective and appropriate team communication, proactive problem solving, and information distribution.
• Define and measure the impact of programs and initiatives both qualitatively and quantitatively.
• Collaborate and establish relationships cross-functionally with product management, engineering, product design, user research, and content strategy to ensure a smooth product development process.

 
Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience working with product teams or programs from road mapping through delivery.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in project or program management.
• Track record of operating under your own initiative with little oversight.
• Experience creating appropriate programs that drive impactful change.
• Experience using data to identify problems and communicate solutions with measurable results.

 
Must-Have Skills:

1. Strong knowledge of G-suite.
2. Excellent communication skills. Will facilitate planning, road mapping, and strategy. Will also facilitate meetings. Experience with escalations, conflict resolutions, and assessing tradeoffs of deadlines. Ensuring alignment – is everyone on the same page?
3. Product development and strategy as well as product design operations. The selected candidate must understand the product development process.

 
Nice-to-Have Skills:

1. Knowledge in Figma.
2. AR/VR or MR.
3. Ability to technically communicate with engineers.

 
Years of Experience:

• 5-7 years of experience in any type of software product management role (Game design, tools design, or metaverse).

 
Difficult Aspects of the Job:

• A lot of stakeholders and different people to coordinate with.
• Being able to reprioritize.
• Being in a team that is changing often.
• Shifting roadmaps and priorities.

 
Interview Process:

• How many rounds of interviews? Min 2, max 3.
• Types of Interviews: Video

 

About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
 
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LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $80.00/hr.