Senior UX Program Manager, Health
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of program management experience within design or UX organizations.
- Experience with UX related projects and UX design, user research, or user centered development tools and methodologies.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with the product development life-cycle.
- Experience analyzing data and leveraging insights to drive strategy.
- Experience managing risks (e.g., operational, product, team health).
- Experience working with UX teams and partnering effectively on cross-functional projects or teams in highly dynamic/fast paced environments.
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 Engineers: 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 engineering 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 Engineers, and other UX disciplines, while also working closely with our Engineering and Product Manager cross-functional partners, to drive UX team objectives and create innovative experiences for our business, products, and users.
Responsibilities
- Be accountable for leading multiple strategic UX programs for key product experiences. Collaborate with UX leadership on critical decisions and orchestrate the successful delivery of several simultaneous projects.
- Orchestrate cross-functional collaboration to align roadmaps, priorities, and resources, ensuring strategic and operational alignment with interdependencies are clearly planned and understood.
- Advocate operational excellence and process improvement. Design and optimize scalable processes that balance velocity with quality.
- Evolve team-wide operational rhythms by governing structured design reviews and utilizing UX craft expertise to build programs that maximize team efficiency.
- Ensure executive leadership and stakeholders have clear visibility into program status, risks, and strategic priorities.
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