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Senior Design Program Manager

Blink UX

Job Location:

Denver, CO - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 31 May 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 15 September 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Blink UX is the product design firm crafting your next breakthrough. We partner with ambitious companies like Amazon Google and NASA to createtransformativeproducts and experiences through strategy research and design. With headquarters and labs in Seattle and studios in Boston San Diego San Francisco New York City and Bengaluru we partner with clients around the world.

This opportunity is a part of Blinks Embedded practice which supports long-term opportunities with some of Blinks largest client partners.

Location: Remote - Talent needs to be based near Bellevue WA or Denver CO

Duration: 6 month contract

What you will be doing:

Proactively examines experiments and measures improvements to design operational model processes and ways of working (e.g. automating tasks improving workflows developing repeatable methodologies) working closely with the Design Operations team and leadership to balance competing priorities to effectively and efficiently deliver impact.
Possesses a proven track record of collaborating with and influencing product design leadership and cross-functional partners.
Strong capacity for leading change dealing with ambiguity and proactively recommending driving and measuring operational process improvements from inception of solution to delivery. Requires minimal to no supervision.
Develops and implements structured communications plan for programs. Owns driving towards clarity for initiatives including proactively anticipating questions to address and developing clear responses.
Oversees and manages program status and health mitigating risks removing barriers efficiently and effectively to support team and escalating when necessary.
Assesses changes in scope and impact to budget and timeline communicating effectively with both internal and external partners.
Provides status reports and timelines to cross-functional leadership teams and drive clear action towards goals and objectives.
Defines and measures impact of program both quantitively and qualitatively sharing best practices to strengthen design operations.
Facilitate collaboration and continuous improvement of processes and methodologies to strengthen ways of working across cross-functional teams
Evaluate & implement the industrys best tools with other design program managers researchers designers and cross-functional partners to solve our growing need to collaborate globally.
Proactively seek to turn ambiguous opportunities into tangible initiatives and structured projects.
Highly organized with strong writing influencing skills and impeccable attention to detail.

What we are looking for:

Bachelors degree
5-7 years of design project or program management experience within a product design organization with experience working across accessibility content designengineering product design product management and user experience research disciplines.
Strong written and oral communication skills. Experience collaborating with and developing and presenting materials to stakeholdersincluding Director and VP-level senior leadership.
A proven track record of partnering across a wide array of internal business groups external marketing agencies executive stakeholders and execution partners.
Ability to delegate tasks across multiple projects and workstreams (resource management capacity tracking resource planning risk mitigation etc.)
Experience with communication workflow and creative asset management systems such as Jira Figma Teams and similar tools.
Experience managing programs and Scrum teams in Agile environments.

$120000 - $133000 a year

DOE

Blink is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race color national origin religion gender age veteran status political affiliation sexual orientation marital status or disability.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

Manager

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