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Design Program Manager job at Opendoor

About Opendoor

Founded in 2014, Opendoor’s mission is to empower everyone with the freedom to move. We believe the traditional real estate process is broken and our goal is simple: build a digital, end-to-end customer experience that makes buying and selling a home simple, certain and fast. We have assembled a dedicated team with diverse backgrounds to support more than 100,000 homes bought and sold with us and the customers who have selected Opendoor as a trusted partner in handling one of their largest financial transactions. But the work is far from over as we continue to grow in new markets. Transforming the real estate industry takes tenacity and dedication. It takes problem solvers and builders. It takes a tight knit community of teammates doing the best work of their lives, pushing one another to transform a complicated process into a simple one. So where do you fit in? Whether you’re passionate about real estate, people, numbers, words, code, or strategy -- we have a place for you. Real estate is broken. Come help us fix it.

Opendoor is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make real estate accessible to all. We believe the traditional real estate process is broken and our goal is simple: build a digital, end-to-end customer experience that makes buying and selling a home simple, certain and fast. We have assembled a dedicated team with diverse backgrounds to support more than 100,000 homes bought and sold with us and the customers who have selected Opendoor as a trusted partner in handling one of their largest financial transactions.

Our Product Design and UX Writing team has grown a lot over the past year, and we’re ready and excited to bring on our first hire to lead Design Operations. As the first in the role, you would be on the design leadership team partnering closely with design managers, ICs, and recruiting to help ensure our team has healthy and well-run programs and processes for great design.

We’re looking for someone who loves bringing order to scrappy start-up environments, who can balance rigor with flexibility, and who wants to help build and shape a world-class design team. We like to take risks, and we need a partner who will push us to rethink our current processes and help us discover creative new ways of working.

This job requires handling all design ops related strategy, communications & feedback.

The work includes, but is not limited to, owning:

Onboarding process
Quality initiatives
Hiring process & job descriptions
Process, design principles & philosophy
Tools management, in partnership with IT
Design culture initiatives
Career growth & education initiatives
Budgeting & procurement Communication programs (Monthly Meetings/Status Reports etc..)

Requirements Include:

5+ years experience in program management and/or design operations
5+ years experience working at a design agency or within a design organization
Experience with stakeholder management, cross-functional partnerships with organizational leaders
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Self-starter with a bias for action

This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our U.S. hubs, or remotely in the continental United States or Canada.

More About Us

To learn how we are reinventing the Real Estate industry check out our website, to hear about our culture directly from team members visit The Muse and to discover what we are building for our customers read our blog posts.

We Offer the Following Benefits and Perks

• Full medical, dental, and vision with optional 85% coverage for dependents

• Flexible vacation policy

• Generous parental leave

• Paid time off to volunteer

Please note that these benefits and perks are available only to Full Time team members and do not apply to contract roles.

Opendoor Values Openness

Our team celebrates our diverse backgrounds. We believe that being open about who we are and what we do allows us to be better. Individuals seeking employment at Opendoor are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other protected status under all applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. For California residents: for more information about the categories of personal information that we collect for recruiting purposes, please see our personnel Privacy Policy.

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