Summary:
We are looking for someone who collaborate with, and support design team leads in delivering strategic counsel through all project interactions. Act as a bridge between the industrial design (ID), color/materials/finish (CMF), UX, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
Responsibilities:
- Identify team and project needs with regards to process, tools, documentation, asset management, etc.
- Implement or drive required changes to make sure design team members are working at optimum efficiency.
- Collaborate with ID team leadership in key project decision-making, including requirements gathering, scheduling, resource allocation, coordination of teams, and approval processes. Define and manage project schedules and budgets from inception to completion.
- Oversee vendor liaison administration duties such as budget, Statement of Work (SOW), Purchase Order (PO) management, and vendor enrollment.
- Provide clear communication to cross-functional team leads and management regarding project status, resource requirements, issues, and priorities.
Skills/ Education/ Experience:
- Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 5 years of experience managing industrial design, color/material/finish (CMF), or creative projects.
- Experience working with consumer hardware.
- Experience working with design groups.
- Communications Management (PgM/TPgM)
- Ability to listen effectively to stakeholders, to communicate program goals, progress, and health to them in a manner tailored to their interests and concerns at all levels, and to drive understanding and inform decisions.
- Typical artifacts include communications plans, metrics and status reports, decision logs, newsletters, and websites.
- Continuous Improvement (PgM/TPgM) Ability to establish systems to identify improvements and drive future needs around business processes, products, or services on an ongoing basis, through measurement of performance, progress, and success metrics.
- Typical artifacts include metric plans (e.g., leading and trailing KPIs), dashboards, trend analyzes, control charts, and retrospectives.
- Execution and Governance (PgM/TPgM)
- Ability to organize and manage the activities that lead to the outcomes of a project: what, who, when, and how.
- Adjust levers (e.g., schedule, staffing, features) to deliver results on time.
- Effectively monitor and communicate progress, risks, and mitigations.
- Typical artifacts include governance plans, project trackers, status reports, OKRs, retrospectives, and escalation reports.
- Managing Organizational Change (PgM/TPgM) Ability to discern when a change is appropriate and to drive change across the organization, working closely with partner teams to manage and communicate changes, introducing them in the least disruptive manner.
- Put systems and mechanisms in place to facilitate future changes.
- Typical artifacts include rollout plans and impact analyzes.
- Planning (PgM/TPgM)
- Ability to identify stakeholders and work with them to strategize, plan, and prioritize objectives, estimate task durations, and ensure schedules and dependencies are aligned and support those objectives.
- Leverage a variety of methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall) to make teams most effective.
- Typical artifacts include proposals, program charters, project plans, OKRs, roadmaps, and risk registers.
- Stakeholder Management (PgM/TPgM) Ability to forge and maintain effective program teams within and across an organization, understand and address their needs and health, and support them throughout the lifecycle of their undertaking.
- Typical artifacts include RACI charts, stakeholder maps, OKRs, and CSAT reports.
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