Design Operations Manager

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Job description

What are we looking for in our Design Operations Manager?

Job Title: Product Design Engineer (Design Ops Manager)
Location: Beaverton, OR 97005
Contract: Oct 2024- Mar 2025
Pay: $42-$47/hour depending on experience

Job Description:

Duties:

Operations - Lead and facilitate all design processes, ensuring they add value and meet established goals.

• Initiate changes in process or organizational structure as necessary to ensure excellence in design outcome, design process, and design leadership.
• Focus on workload management, calendar, design tools (images, samples, color, etc.), budgeting, resource alignment, and strategic planning.
• Champions group design efforts, maintaining relationships with internal divisions groups and outside groups where collaborative relationships benefits the brand, product, and creative process (e.g. Commercialization, Merchandising, Footwear).
• Creates and manages a design resource plan to ensure all design needs are covered with either the appropriate internal or external talent.
• Collaborate with Design Leadership Team to establish and communicate design processes and monitor seasonal progress.

Project Management - Oversees seasonal workload by assigning projects to design staff and outside contractors as needed.

• Provides experiences and training that maintains highest level of competency among designers.
• Influences project direction by acting as integral part of design team.
• Mentors others by sharing business and design expertise.

Systems - Identify and articulate strategic design department needs to the systems groups.

• Act as the liaison between the design department and IT on systems-related issues.
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant computer systems and applications.
• Make systems recommendations to enhance processes and design execution.

Project Focus: Enable the Production Art Studio to anticipate and plan workload to deploy the appropriate amount and level of resources in partnership with Design teams.

• This will result in the building, education, and roll-out of a comprehensive, automated workload tool for the Production Art studio inclusive of Sport Uniforms and Tees.
• Scope includes understanding workload calculations from job descriptions to project opportunities and requires close partnership with Studio Director, Sr Studio Managers, Design Operations and internal stakeholders.

Airtable experience required

Benefits Info

Pride Global offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Rate/Salary: $42-$47/hour doe

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