Establish and lead the team operating cadence, including regular ceremonies such as design reviews, critiques, all-hands, milestone showcases, and retrospectives.
Partner with design leadership to manage team-wide communications, meeting structures, planning cadences, and operational documentation.
Drive visibility and accountability across strategic initiatives, design goals, and cross-functional engagements by managing progress tracking and alignment checkpoints.
Help foster a cohesive and inclusive team culture through operational rituals, team engagement strategies, and internal storytelling.
Lead the consolidation and governance of Figma across the organization, including shared libraries, permission models, taxonomy, and maintenance practices.
Own the strategy, configuration, and administration of core design and research tools (e.g., Figma, UserTesting, Miro, Dovetail, Jira, Confluence), ensuring reliability, scalability, and adoption.
Define access protocols, system roles, and training resources for tool usage across multi-disciplinary teams.
Manage vendor relationships for design and research platforms, including contracting, license procurement, renewals, and cost forecasting.
Partner with Legal, Finance, Procurement, and IT to ensure tool compliance, streamline onboarding/offboarding processes, and optimize spend.
Audit existing tool usage to reduce redundancy, improve ROI, and guide long-term platform strategy.
Build and scale intake, prioritization, and workflow systems to support how design work is requested, resourced, tracked, and delivered across product spaces.
Standardize project management practices across design pods and functions, tailoring them to meet the needs of discovery, delivery, and strategy teams.
Maintain clear and current process documentation, change logs, and learning resources that support team onboarding and evolution.
Serve as a key operational partner to leaders in Product, Engineering, Brand, Franchise Ops, and Research—connecting design workflows to broader planning cycles and delivery milestones.
Anticipate and coordinate cross-functional dependencies and roadblocks to keep execution on track and aligned with business goals.
Help shape how the design team interfaces with the broader organization through repeatable engagement models and shared accountability frameworks.
Requirements
10+ years of relevant experience in design operations, program management, product ops, or operational leadership within creative or digital organizations.
Experience driving enterprise-wide tooling consolidation (especially Figma) and managing the administration and governance of creative and research tools.
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