Program Manager

Description

Title: Design Program Manager 

Location: MPK onsite (min 3x a week)

Must-Have Skills     

• Must be able to collaborate and be independent.
• Experience in complex consumer products, specifically someone that has worked deeply on product design (anything where they worked in a medium size company in consumer features)Experience in Design projects.
• An individual that can manage complex programs across stakeholder and someone who is coachable.
• Great operator, with clear communication. Must be able to communicate with designers as well as senior stakeholders and present.

Nice-to-have Skills     

• Experience with technical projects – having a technical background.
• Has been responsible of supporting engineering teams 20+ people.
• Former Client experience
• Google G-suite.
• Someone who has a technical background.
• Someone who is a Client user.

Role

• We’re looking for a program manager to help support the Messaging product team. This senior program manager will help drive horizontal program operations across the Messaging sub-pillar, be on point for specific usability projects that help our billions of daily Messaging users.

Job Responsibilities:

• Coordinate horizontal workstreams across Messaging to improve the efficiency of the sub-pillar, enable better stakeholder management
• Coordinate usability projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical and design solutions
• Confer with product, designers, engineers, and marketing to discuss and align on project specifications and procedures.
• Usability UI projects.

Skills:

• Experience working on consumer features/workstreams with close design collaborations
• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, attention to detail and interpersonal skills.
• Strong ability to work independently and manage one’s time.

Must have:

• Product Design Projects - experience in complex consumer products, specifically someone that has worked deeply on product design (anything where they worked in a medium size company in consumer features).
• Ability to work with designer and design stakeholders.
• Must be able to collaborate and be independent – deeply in program design.
• Great operator, with clear communication. Must be able to communicate with designers as well as senior stakeholders and present.
• An individual that can manage complex programs across stakeholder and someone who is coachable.