Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of program management experience within design or UX organizations.
- 5 years of experience with UX related projects and UX design, user research, and/or user centered development tools and methodologies.
- Experience with the product development lifecycle.
- Experience analyzing data and leveraging insights to drive strategy.
- Experience managing risks (e.g. operational, product, team health).
- Knowledge of technology trends and issues.
- Ability to work across organizational boundaries to define, manage, and prioritize work.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills; ability to communicate complex interaction concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
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About the job
At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." UX Programs & Operations at Google drive projects within our UX organizations by increasing communication and connection points, streamlining the UX design process, and driving a culture of user centered development.
Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Developers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with development and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google's businesses.
As a UX Program Manager (UX Programs & Operations), you will combine expert project management skills with a passion for user experience to help your team improve the design of products that are used by billions of users. You'll plan projects, define milestones, assess risks, create actionable insights, and ensure projects meet deadlines. You'll harmonize the work of UX Designers, Researchers, Content Strategists, UX Developers, and other UX disciplines, while also working closely with our Development and Product Manager cross-functional partners, to drive UX team objectives and create innovative experiences for our business, products, and users.
The web is what you make of it and our team is helping the world make more of the web. From open-source pros to user-experience extraordinaires, we develop products that help users connect, communicate and collaborate with others. Our consumer products and cloud platforms are giving millions of users at homes, businesses, universities and nonprofits around the world the tools that shape their web experience -- and changing the way they think about computing.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and operational excellence across UX teams to deliver the highest level of trust-building and strategic counsel through all project interactions, while building strong collaborative relationships with appropriate stakeholders across program work.
- Develop business cases and engagement with partners on continuous improvements and optimizations. Develop measurable, scalable, and repeatable processes/tools that drive seamless cross-functional collaborations/handoffs.
- Run and implement analytical efforts for broader or cross-functional projects, programs, and strategies.
- Contribute to the definition, integration and reporting of key UX metrics that drive a culture of user-centered development based on program needs and stakeholder input.
- Manage large, complex programs while turning chaos into an efficient organization.