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Design Program Manager

TEKsystems
$55.00 - $60.00 / hr
life insurance, sick time, 401(k), retirement plan
United States, Washington, Seattle
May 09, 2025
Top Global Tech Company Seeking Design Program Manager Onsite in Seattle Overview: We are seeking a Design Program Manager to support design operations for a high-impact, fast-paced design team. This role involves driving and managing design team progress, planning design sprints, prioritizing tasks, and publishing feature roadmaps to stakeholders. Key Responsibilities: * Track progress towards milestones, manage dependencies, identify and communicate risks, and manage changes using design domain expertise. * Partner with the DPM lead to optimize team scope, schedule, and resources effectively. * Share weekly project progress and inform stakeholders on key updates. * Maintain the bug repository and manage team tasks and bug burndown to ensure on-time software delivery. * Create automation scripts to improve team efficiency. * Lead design team critiques by managing sign-ups and schedules, capturing notes and feedback, and clearly communicating next steps. * Collaborate with the DPM lead and TPM to facilitate design-led bug bash efforts. * Contribute to design operations initiatives that help optimize and scale DPMs effectively across design horizontals. * Plan design sprints, prioritize tasks using Kanban/Jira, and publish feature roadmaps to stakeholders. Minimum Qualifications: * 3+ years of experience working with design and art teams to ship software. * Experience working directly with design teams and collaborating closely with technical teams. * Firm understanding of design accountabilities in relation to software release schedules. * Ability to execute on an established rhythm of business, run a team through a project plan, and proactively identify risks and possible mitigation paths. * Detail-oriented and organized both individually and at team scale. * Experience managing work with external vendors. * Experience in developing product quality standards and design operations. * Technical experience with authoring scripts to automate tasks and workflows. * Experience using data to identify problems and communicate solutions. Bonus Qualifications: * Experience working with design and art teams at a major tech company. * Experience building dashboards to visualize data. * Experience shipping a product at a major tech company. Employee Value Proposition (EVP): * Opportunity to work on experiences for future hardware product launches. Work Environment: * Super collaborative environment with a preference for in-office work. Business Drivers/Customer Impact: * Launching a number of new products this year. Why is the position open? * Need for additional support. Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $60.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: * Medical, dental & vision * Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital * 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available * Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) * Short and long-term disability * Health Spending Account (HSA) * Transportation benefits * Employee Assistance Program * Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Workplace Type This is a fully onsite position in Seattle,WA. Application Deadline This position is anticipated to close on May 22, 2025. About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.