Senior Design Program Manager

Description

Senior Design Program Manager

Full-time

San Francisco, CA

You'll be joining Adobe on a contract opportunity, employed through NextDeavor

Benefits You'll Love

NextDeavor offers health, vision and dental benefits for contract employees Paid sick leave eligibility is contingent on state of residence Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match) Opportunity to get your foot in the door at a well-established corporation, with potential for extended or permanent full-time employment
Become a Key Player as a Senior Design Program Manager

You will organize and scale design programs that turn ambiguous, early-stage strategic work into repeatable processes that drive business impact. You will partner with design leadership, product, engineering, and research stakeholders to align cross-functional work and ensure timely decision-making. This role is embedded across multiple projects and supports horizontal initiatives.
Here's How You'll Make an Impact on the Team

• Translate ambiguous, early-stage strategic work into structured programs with clear owners, milestones, and success criteria
• Manage programs spanning multiple product teams, track dependencies, surface blockers, and keep work moving across organizational boundaries
• Drive cross-functional working models across design, product, engineering, and research so the right people have the right information at the right time
• Support and run rituals and reviews, including scheduling, facilitation, documentation, and follow-through
• Maintain portfolio-level systems for tracking and reporting project status, priorities, and key decisions
• Manage and communicate cross-organization design decisions and create visibility into team work for leadership
• Collaborate with Program Managers and PMs to build operational infrastructure: rituals, documentation standards, intake processes, and coordination frameworks
• Apply AI tooling to program management workflows to improve tracking, reporting, and communication

Here's What You'll Need to Be Successful in This Role

• 5+ years of experience in design operations or program management within a design and technology environment
• Proven experience building operational processes and programs from scratch in teams or organizations with little existing structure
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-team programs with competing priorities and no single owner
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to synthesize multi-threaded work for senior leadership
• Ability to work horizontally across a large organization and build alignment with independently operating teams
• Familiarity with AI tools and curiosity about applying them to design or program workflows
• Familiarity with 2D and 3D workspaces sufficient to navigate conversations and make content legible to stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Pay Range

$41.69 - $52.11/hour
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Pay Range

$41.69 Hourly to $52.11 Hourly