Design Program Manager, Design Systems & Accessibility

We are looking for an experienced Design Operations Program Manager who will evolve the Asana Design organization’s community, collaboration, and infrastructure of our work. As part of a product-driven and design-led company, Asana’s Design team is a collaborative group from many different backgrounds who love combining research, data insights, and peer feedback into a user-centered design process. Asana is helping teams in 190 countries become significantly more productive with our leading work management platform. 

The Design Program Manager is responsible for accelerating our Design Systems program and our company-wide Accessibility effort. You will evolve these key programs and enable the team to scale with strength and deliver exemplary product experiences in a creative, focused environment. This role reports into our Head of Design Operations, and works in partnership with our Design Leadership, Designers, User Experience Research Operations, and People Operations teams.

What you'll achieve

• Be actively involved in defining and owning strategy, scoping and execution for the following important Design Team programs:
• Accessibility
• Design Systems
• Design Infrastructure
• Facilitate and lead the above end-to-end programming and operating rhythm within a hyper-growth organization 
• Communicate and align with stakeholders to keep them informed on the team’s progress and goals
• Within your owned program areas, serve as the go-to liaison for program participants, stakeholders, and cross-functional partners
• Identify and predict potential obstacles and risks to key programs; seek to implement solutions and problem solve effectively
• Establish team rituals that ensure long term health and team cohesion
• Foster growth of our talented design community (read stories about us on the Asana Design team site!)
• Collaborate with Design Leadership to evolve our process, tools and systems to ensure we’re creating great, consistent work
• Ensure progress towards goals is clearly and consistently communicated by teams
• Help develop and evangelize the Design Operations function within Asana as well as externally
• Experience career growth and personal development within a world-class Design and Product team

About you

• 5+ years relevant professional experience, including: design operations, design people operations, project/program management of design deliverables
• Experience leading and supporting high-performing, collaborative design teams
• Deep understanding of fundamentals of the design development processes; knowledge of designers’ day to day, and design life cycle
• Demonstrated experience owning and leading multiple initiatives at the same time
• Excellent systems thinker
• Demonstrated problem solving abilities
• Affinity for Design and building Design Communities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• BA/BS degree or higher
• You love just the *right* amount of process
• Focused on maximizing impact for yourself, your team, and your company as a whole
• Ability to present and sell your ideas, create coalition, and build support
• Comfortable with ambiguity; you enjoy figuring out what needs to be done—and then doing it
• Approach problems with curiosity, and excitement to learn and grow your skills

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