Mercury

Finance / FinServ

SeniorDesignOperationsProgramManager

$163–204k new york city, new york, united states; los angeles, california, united states; seattle, washington, united states; san francisco, california, united states; United States; Canada Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Senior Design Operations Program Manager at Mercury. Skills: Design Operations Program Management, Process Improvement, Team Health and Happiness, Onboarding and Enablement, Tooling and Workflow Management. Build simple processes and systems to ensure our Design org can scale effectively. Lead activities and initiatives that support a healthy design culture and quality goals”

Industry & Context.

Finance / FinServ
Problems you'll solve

Skill in anticipating and mitigating risks across people, process, and tools; co-create solutions to address team roadblocks and inefficiencies

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3-6+ years of experience in a design-focused operations or program management role, Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills, Demonstrated high bar for quality and attention to detail, and fostering accountability, Proven ability to influence without authority and coordinate across teams, product areas, and platforms to land new ways of working, Demonstrated ownership of complex horizontal programs, including scoping, sequencing, making trade-offs, and engaging the right partners, Ability to reflect, adapt quickly, and continuously improve in response to changing priorities and feedback, Skill in anticipating and mitigating risks across people, process, and tools, History of driving operational excellence by improving systems end-to-end, not just delivering individual projects

What You'll Do.

Build simple processes and systems to ensure our Design org can scale effectively

Lead activities and initiatives that support a healthy design culture and quality goals

Champion initiatives that elevate our employer brand and grow the Design team’s external presence

Drive onboarding and enablement

Support tooling and workflow

Manage design tooling and partner with Procurement to secure new tools

Provide thought partnership to Design leaders

Cultivate positive relationships with our partners to effectively identify and co-create solutions

Collaborate with designers

and cross-functional partners

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

collaborating closely with a diverse group of stakeholders; partnering with EPD Ops; partner with Procurement; Cultivate positive relationships with our partners; Collaborate with designers, design leaders, and cross-functional partners; partnering with Product Ops, Research Ops, and Eng Ops

Communication Scope

Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills

Process & Methodology

program management, scoping, sequencing, making trade-offs, engaging the right partners, driving operational excellence by improving systems end-to-end

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