Sr. Design Program Manager

"**Sr. Design Program Manager****Preferred Qualifications**Every day, enterprises around the world focus on how to help their employees work simpler and smarter.This means letting enterprises focus on what makes each of them special. They focus on what they are best at by partnering with Oracle do the rest. The scope of our opportunity is enormous. At Oracle, we are committed to creating a state-of-the-art consumer-grade enterprise experience that connects, empowers and delights our users, and is the factor that distinguishes our software from the competition.Yes. We are absolutely serious. And we cant do it without your help. We need thoughtful, talented, multi-faceted Principal Design Program Managers who love empowering technology users with high quality interaction and visual design to join our team.**Here is the kind of person were looking for.****You thrive on working well with others.** You make the people around you better. You love to collaborate with designers, user researchers, engineers, product managers, executives, and inspire them to do their best.**You get stuff done!****You love rules and you know when to break them** . You think systemically because you know that creating a coherent experience requires it. But you know when the system needs to expand to accommodate end user varied needs. And you know when to do something completely unique to create an arresting and product-defining moment in the product that makes users ooh and aah.**You do not already know everything, and you love to learn.** You are inspired by helping users solve their problems. You love finding out you are wrong. You consume large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data to constantly refine your assumptions.**And finally, you want to be part of creating dramatic and impactful change at a company that is committed to becoming an industry leader in user-centered experience design.**You might have learned your craft via formal training or on-the-job training. For most candidates, it is a combination of both. As long as you have experience and passion doing this work at the highest level, we would love to talk to you and see a portfolio of the work you are most proud of.We have studios in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Guadalajara, Mexico. If you are interested, please get in touch. We would love to hear from you.**About our opening****Oracle.com Principal Design Program Manager**We are looking for a Principal Design Program Manager to join the Brand Experience team. This role serves as a hands-on owner for Design operations for product marketing, digital experiences, and strategic assignments. The DPM is skilled in organizing requirements, leading through ambiguity, creating timelines, progress, and providing ownership and accountability to see projects through completion. We expect that you are comfortable using modern productivity tools to deliver complex digital experiences and manage multiple working and communication styles.Strong organization and communication skills are required. You should have demonstrated experience offering unique creative solutions, managing/negotiating the expectations of your team and your business partners, driving high levels of design performance in a high velocity / high-volume work environment, and staying in active communication with creative teams, business partners, and external design partners.**Core responsiblities:**+ Own massively complex global design initiatives and deliver them flawlessly.+ Delivery and scale of sophisticated web and digital production processes.+ DesignOps. Continually work to optimize process and workflow for a high functioning design and creative organization.+ Build processes to identify and remove blockers to enable great design.+ Resource management including resource allocation based on organizational priority and road maps.+ Provide transparency on design team activities to partner teams and manage expectations.+ Work with partner teams to organize project requirements and drive to limit ambiguity.**Desired qualifications:**+ Bachelors degree and 8 years of experience as a PM/Producer in a digital design or web marketing/advertising industry or similar role.+ Excellent skills in project management and operations.+ Strong experience with all forms of digital marketing, including mobile, web, and social.+ Tech savvy - should be able to master Oracle tools quickly.+ Self-starting, flexible, highly organized, detail-oriented, reliable, and has the ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines.+ Ability to work cross-team and synthesize feedback and input from Marketing, Product, Creative and partners.+ Proven ability to use data and metrics to measure the performance of design efforts, identify opportunities improvements and innovations, and to support project requests from partner teams.+ Great teammate with refined leadership skills and ability to positively inspire change through solid rationale, supporting data, and diplomacy.+ Have relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo).+ Must have previous experience working with design, advertising and/or marketing teams.+ Strong excel skills and experience working with project management software required**Life at Oracle**We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.At Oracle, we dont just value differenceswe celebrate them! Were committed to creating a workplace where all kinds of people work together. We believe innovation starts with diversity and inclusion.**https://www.oracle.com/corporate/careers/culture/diversity.htm** **l**#LI-MS1**Detailed Description and Job Requirements**Responsible for creating, evaluating and modifying prototypes to support evolving hardware and software application development.As a member of the User Experience team, you will develop and apply software design/usability processes in the investigation of technical problems. May develop user profiles, with emphasis on human error control, display issues, visual interaction, physical manipulation and task and objective analyses. Provide product usability, evaluation and support to product development teams, including the analysis and investigation of applications/systems including tactile methods, visual graphics, web, multimedia, voice response and conversational user interaction. May assist in developing design concept and implementation, providing input on user design considerations. May produce specifications describing user needs and internal structures for product in development.Duties and tasks are varied and complex utilizing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. Typically four years of software engineering or related experience needed.**Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.****Job:** Product Development**Location:** US-WA,Washington-Seattle**Other Locations:** US-CA,California-Redwood City**Job Type:** Regular Employee Hire**Organization:** Oracle"