Senior Design Program Manager

MW Partners is currently seeking a Senior Design Program Manager to work for our client, who is a global leader in multimedia and creativity software products.

Responsibilities and duties:

• Partner with Design Directors, principals and design leads to translate ambiguous early-stage strategic work into structured programs with clear owners, milestones, and success criteria
• Manage programs spanning multiple product teams, tracking dependencies, surfacing blockers, and keeping work moving across organizational boundaries
• Drive cross functional working models across multiple disciplines including design, product, engineering, and research and more to ensure the right people have the right information at the right time
• Support rituals and reviews across a multi-team design organization, including scheduling, facilitation, documentation, and follow-through
• Maintain systems for tracking and reporting on design work at the portfolio level, including project status, priorities, and key decisions
• Manage, drive and communicate cross organization design decisions.
• Coordinate between design, product, engineering, and research to ensure the right people have the right information at the right time
• Create visibility into the team's work for design, product, and engineering leadership across Client, establishing reporting cadences and communication structures that may not yet exist
• Collaborate with Program Managers and PMs to build and own the operational infrastructure for different teams, including rituals, documentation standards, intake processes, and cross-team coordination frameworks
• Manage programs spanning multiple product teams, tracking dependencies, surfacing blockers, and keeping work moving across organizational boundaries
• Apply AI tooling to program management workflows to improve how the team tracks, reports, and communicates its work

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in design operations or program management within a design and technology environment
• Experience standing up operational processes in a team or org that had none, you are comfortable building programs before there is a clear path
• Proven ability to manage programs that span multiple teams, platforms, or systems with no single owner and competing priorities
• Strong instincts for creating just enough structure to move work forward without over-engineering or slowing teams down
• Demonstrated ability to work horizontally across a large organization, earning trust and building alignment with teams that operate independently
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex multi-threaded work legible to senior leadership
• Comfortable operating in environments where the product, the team, and the process are all evolving at the same time
• Familiarity with AI tools and genuine curiosity about applying them to design or program management workflows
• Familiarity with 2D and 3D workspaces enough to navigate conversations, ask the right questions, and make the content legible to stakeholders

For a further discussion or to find out more, contact Snehita on (909) 279-1899 or apply now.