Design Program Manager
Spectraforce
Bellevue, Washington
2 days ago
Job Description
Job Title: Design Program Manager
Location: Bellevue, WA - Hybrid
Duration: 06 months - Possibility for Extension or conversion
Daily Responsibilities:
About the team:
Job Qualifications:
Must Have:
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.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
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: $55.00/hr.
Location: Bellevue, WA - Hybrid
Duration: 06 months - Possibility for Extension or conversion
Daily Responsibilities:
- As a Design Program Manager, you will focus on elevating design impact through tools, resources, expertise, and operational excellence. You will drive the creation and maintenance of a work environment that empowers client designers to do their best work in a way that is innovative, sustainable, and customer obsessed.
- You will demonstrate ownership and systems thinking as you tailor your mechanisms and support to the unique needs of your designers and their products. You will also support the client team of design program managers and collaborate with them to improve the design practice and operational excellence of the entire studio.
About the team:
- As a part of the client DesignOps Team, you will be supported by a community of design program managers and collaborate to improve studio-wide operations.
- Leverage the collective expertise of fellow DPM’s
- Workshop new mechanisms and provide feedback to others
- Share mechanisms that work
- Drive studio tools and resources
- Create and drive connections with the larger Operations Design Community
- Shape the future of client by driving strategic studio-level projects
- Facilitate team scrum ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, retros, etc)
- Evolve, document and model team mechanisms
- Compose design program PRFAQ’s, business review docs, and work-back plans
- Advocate for the happiness and productivity of your designers
- Forge relationships with product and engineering leaders to maximize design contributions
- Protect vision and align design team goals
- Captain team communications and oversee releases
- Working with designers or developers
Job Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience
- Software development experience (Agile)
- Navigation for complex organizations
- Operations experience
- Product management experience
- Jira, Asana, Writing skills
- Familiarity with UX Design
- Research experience would be helpful
Must Have:
- Asana/Jira knowledge
- Quip/Google Sheets/ Tech savy – Organizational software
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.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
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: $55.00/hr.