Microsoft Senior Design Program Manager 

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver 

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Senior Design Program Manageris responsible forenvisioning the future of collaboration at Microsoft through products like OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams.

Design Program Managers at Microsoft work collaboratively with designers, researchers, content writers, product managers, and developers, leading projects throughout the planning, design, and development lifecycle to implement simple, scalable approaches that amplify our design studios efforts.

As a member of ourteam, you will contribute to our charter of better cross-product integration, stronger customer experiences, improved efficiencies at scale, andultimately ahealthy andstrong designculture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

This team supports our employees in all locations around the country. This job has theto be remote orin one of our hubs.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to manage project deliverables and track progress with multiple teams across the business.
• Familiarity with project management best practices, tools, and methodologies.
• Solid organizational skills with attention to detail in documenting and communicating project needs.
• Capable of managing updates and ensuring project contributorsremainaccountable and on-track.
• Ability to support effective collaboration across a large, cross-functional team environment.
• Familiarity with Agile, Lean, and/or other modern product development methodologies
• Familiarity with tools like Figma, Sketch, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar project management and design tools.
• Familiarity with SharePoint, site creation, document management, and publishing.
• Interest in inclusive design and understanding of how it supports Microsoft’s mission.

Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 10, 2025.

• strong communication, and rigorous program management.
• Support the Design Operations practice, including intake, prioritization,capacityplanning, tooling, and process optimization.
• Drive consistency and harmony in design teamoperatingrhythm, including communication structures, project templates, leadership cadence, and resourceutilization.
• Establish and drive a communication strategy to keep the UX team and partner teams informed and aligned on priorities and risks.
• Initiate and run internal initiatives that significantly improve the Design org’s operations and cross-functional ways of working.
• Optimizeinteraction models between Product, Engineering, Design, Creative, and Marketing, influencing cross-functionally toidentifyopportunity, unlock productivity, and accelerate execution.
• Drive continuous improvement leveraging lessons learned from teams to celebrate successes as well as identify ways to improve.
• Identifyand predict obstacles, collisions, and risk to projects across multiple teams and seek solutions toeliminatethem.
• Inspire, develop, and challengeCxD'sDesignOpsteam, modeling excellence.
• Compose, implement, and document comprehensive and user-friendly processes.
• Orchestrate and build team rituals that focus on tracking progress, execution, communication across the program of work, and celebration of product milestones ensuring teams are on track, work is high quality, and designers feel recognized for their contributions.