Description
A Leading Social Media Company based in London is seeking a Design Program Manager to join their team on a 6 month contract.
Responsibilities:
- Identify and drive product initiatives forward that have multiple leadership-level stakeholders and many moving parts
- Define and manage strategic initiatives that improve design team efficiency and impact
- Facilitate meetings to drive progress against goals and objectives, and establishing clear next steps and owners and resolving blocks that impede progress
- Proactively assess risk, raise flags, and resolve issues before they become problems for the larger teams
- Measure impact of programs and initiatives both qualitatively and quantitatively
- Collaborate cross-functionally with our design team, product management, engineering, content strategy and user research to ensure a smooth product development process
- Support the management team with effective team communication, proactive problem solving, information distribution
- Establish communication structure to report out updates, progress and status with task forces or leads on the team
- Manage program communication and proactively connect with partners in other offices or disciplines to make them aware of the programs and how they can provide support
- Build impactful relationships and serve as a dependable point of contact across the product design, research, and content strategy teams and cross-functional partners you're working with in all offices
- Establish and execute activities that build team culture and community, team values and trust
Skills and experience:
- 6+ years of experience as a digital producer, project manager, product manager, or program manager with a background establishing programs, supporting design teams, executing best in class creative, and developing lasting relationships
- Experience handling complexity and navigating ambiguity with creative teams on large-scale 0 to 1 projects from concept to execution
- Experience working with product teams from roadmapping through delivery
- Experience working directly with product designers, UX researchers, and content strategists
- Experience working directly with creatives, both visual and content
- Track record of operating independently, demonstrating creativity, being detail-oriented, and delivering results in a highly organised manner
- Experience in fast-paced environment that requires independent time management, task prioritisation, flexibility, and experience identifying problems and proactively work towards solutions
- Experience leading product strategy
- Experience communicating with data to drive change
If you feel you fit the above criteria, please apply today.
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