Description:
Design Program Managers at Meta are passionate connectors and problem solvers. By supporting the various aspects of the product teams, you will enable teams to focus their time on designing, building and shipping products. You will improve team communication, collaboration and remove roadblocks. Finally, you'll utilize a full range of organizational and interpersonal skills to help keep our teams on track, execute specific design initiatives intended to grow team health, industry expertise and team impact, and you'll have an opportunity to work with cross-functional teams as you establish great ways of working together.
Design Program Manager - WhatsApp, Business Responsibilities:
- Identify and drive large product initiatives at the organization level that have multiple stakeholders, competing deadlines, multiple dependencies and many moving parts
- Impact-focused prioritization - assess tradeoffs to propose clear solutions
- Communicate strategically & effectively
- successfully influence your audience for buy-in and feedback
- Identify, define and manage multi-team strategic initiatives that drive efficiency and impact, often contributing best practices to the discipline
- Drive progress against goals and objective
- set clear next steps and owners, while resolving blocks that hinder progress
- Proactively assess risk, raise flags and resolve issues before they become problems for larger teams
- Champion design operations and act as a trusted leader across the team & company, mentoring and sharing expertise with other team members
- Proactively problem solve and distribute information effectively
- Define and measure impact of programs and initiatives - both qualitatively and quantitatively - continuous refine and iterate to ensure usage and adoption
- Scale programs and initiatives when necessary and delegate effectively with clear expectations
- Gain in-depth product knowledge to effectively establish and contribute to product strategies
Minimum Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience in product design program management
- Experience handling complexity and navigating ambiguity with teams on large scale, 0 to 1 projects from concept to execution
- Experience working with product teams from roadmapping through delivery
- Experience working directly with product designers, user experience (UX) researchers, and content designers
- Experience consistently working under your own initiative, seeking feedback and input where appropriate
- Experience managing time-critical projects through to completion while balancing evolving priorities and a wide-range of stakeholders
- Experience with the Product Design Lifecycle, with knowledge of design sprints and workshops
- Experience using data to identify problems and communicate solutions