The Design Project Manager drives design project execution across teams, ensuring clarity, managing timelines, and utilizing Jira for workflow transparency.
As a Design Project Manager, you will be responsible for driving clarity, structure, and predictability across design initiatives within our global Design team of 50+ professionals. We are looking for a strong delivery-focused project manager who thrives in complex environments, brings order to ambiguity, and enables design teams to execute efficiently at scale.In this role, you will own design project execution end-to-end — from intake and planning to delivery and reporting. You will act as the primary owner of design delivery workflows, ensuring Jira is a reliable source of truth, timelines are clear, dependencies are managed, and stakeholders have visibility into progress. You will collaborate closely with designers, design leadership, product managers, and engineering partners across multiple time zones.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Drive and coordinate the delivery of design initiatives across multiple product areas and workstreams in close partnership with Design Managers
- Plan and manage scope, timelines, and milestones in collaboration with Design Managers to ensure predictable and well-coordinated deliveryManage dependencies, risks, and resourcing considerations to support smooth execution across teams
- Ensure Jira and related tools accurately reflect priorities, progress, and delivery status, serving as a single source of truth for design work
- Track and report on delivery-focused design metrics (e.g. throughput, cycle time, on-time delivery, WIP) to improve transparency and planning quality
- Use delivery data and insights to identify inefficiencies and continuously improve design workflows and planning practices
- Partner with design leadership, product, and engineering teams to align priorities, manage trade-offs, and enable effective collaboration across multiple time zones
REQUIREMENTS
- 5+ years of experience as a Design Project Manager, Project Manager, or similar role working closely with design teams
- Proven experience managing complex projects in large, distributed, cross-functional environments
- Strong hands-on experience with Jira (or similar tools) and comfort owning tool structure and hygiene
- Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills
- Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous problem spaces and move work forward pragmatically
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Confidence working with senior design, product, and engineering leaders
- Understanding of design and product development workflows
- Nice to Have
- Experience working with global design organizations
- Experience managing external vendors or agencies
- Familiarity with agile, lean, or hybrid delivery modelsBackground in design, UX, or creative operations
Top Skills
JIRA
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