Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, seeking an experienced Program Manager to embed within their Visual Design team on a contract basis. This role is responsible for orchestrating the operational rhythm of the design organization, managing project pipelines, and ensuring design initiatives are delivered on time and at the quality expected by the team.
Responsibilities
- Own the Visual Design team's program calendar, sprint cadence, and intake process for new work requests
- Maintain and communicate the master project tracker across all active design initiatives, including status, owners, blockers, and ETA
- Coordinate milestone reviews, critique sessions, and sign-off checkpoints with stakeholders across Product, Marketing, Engineering, and Brand
- Track creative deliverable pipelines (e.g., UI components, brand assets, motion design, campaign creative) and surface risks early
- Serve as the primary operational liaison between the Visual Design team and partner teams including Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Content
- Facilitate handoffs of design assets and ensure downstream teams have what they need, when they need it
- Coordinate with Brand and Marketing on campaign timelines, creative deadlines, and asset delivery schedules
- Manage dependencies between design and development, flagging spec gaps or approval delays that could impact build timelines
- Prepare and deliver weekly/bi-weekly design program status updates for design leadership and key stakeholders
- Produce roadmaps, capacity snapshots, and delivery forecasts that inform planning and resourcing decisions
- Drive retrospectives and continuous improvement conversations around how the team takes on and completes work
- Maintain and improve program management tooling (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Asana, Figma project views) to give the team visibility into work in flight
- Establish lightweight but effective governance for design request intake, prioritization, and escalation
- Document and socialize team processes to ensure consistency as the design organization scales
Skills
- 5+ years of program or project management experience, with at least 2 years embedded in or closely supporting a design, creative, or UX team
- Demonstrated track record managing multi-workstream creative programs with competing deadlines and multiple stakeholders
- Strong fluency with design workflows, creative review processes, and asset delivery pipelines
- Proficiency with program management tools: Jira, Confluence, Asana, Smartsheet, or equivalent
- Working knowledge of design tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite) at a level sufficient to navigate projects and understand deliverable types
- Exceptional communication skills written, verbal, and visual with the ability to translate between designer and non-designer audiences
- Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
- Previous experience supporting Brand, Marketing Design, or Product Design organizations
- Familiarity with design systems and component library workflows
- Background in agency or in-house creative operations
- Experience working with distributed or globally dispersed creative teams
- PMP certification or equivalent program management training
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