Design Program Manager - Los Angeles, United States - Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Description

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015 to help solve some of society's toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education to addressing the needs of our local communities.

Our mission is to build a more inclusive, just, and healthy future for everyone.

The CZI Education Team

At CZI, we pair technology with grantmaking to equip educators, families, and students with tools that integrate high-quality research, practices, and content to unlock the full potential of every student, no matter who they are or where they live.

From program conception to software feature design, we center our work on student and educator voices to help educators address the day-to-day challenges in their classrooms.

Since 2015, our grant investments have helped catalyze new education tools, classroom practices, and measures of student success designed to foster whole child outcomes.

We leveraged technology to provide research-based practices in products that help teachers connect with students and tailor learning experiences to individual student needs.

At our core, we are builders, and our unique builder philanthropy approach sets us apart from other education funders. A look back on the highlights and significant milestones of CZI's first eight years of education work can be found

here .

The Role

The Education Design team is looking to hire a passionate and mission-driven Design Program Manager contractor to support our Product Design, Brand Experience, and Design Systems teams.

In this role you will partner closely with design leadership to identify and implement programs and processes that will meaningfully improve how we work.

This opportunity starts as a 6-month contract, with 40 hours per week. This role can be fully remote or flex (working out of our Redwood City Office).

You Will
Partner with design leadership to build out the design operations practice within the Education team
Support design leadership in running and facilitating all design team touch points
Identify and drive programs that increase design team culture
Support operations for the design team including cross team communication and collaboration including how we track work and leverage Jira
Identify any bottlenecks or inefficiencies within the design team
Audit and manage design team documentation and knowledge sharing practices
Support design projects by ensuring inbound team requests are triages, scoped, staffed, and scheduled appropriately - in partnership with design project leaders
Partner in roadmapping and planning to help forecast future team bandwidth

You Have
4+ years of experience in project or program management
Proficiency in FigJam and Zeroheight
Track record of operating independently with little oversight
Experience creating programs that drive impactful change
World class organization and communication skills
Functional understanding of Product Design, User Experience Research, Brand and Content Strategy
Flexibility in using your judgment to apply the right model and approach that best fit the context and goal
The ability to support and create an environment for a, productive, cross-functional team; making space for the creative work across all disciplines to happen in a transparent, open setting

Bonus:
Experience working within Education or Philanthropy spaces

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