Product & Engineering

Design Program Manager

Coordinate design critiques, research calendars, handoffs, and design delivery.

Free 25-users  |  $500 in credits  |  No credit card required
Job To Be Done

Coordinate design operations, critiques, research calendars, and cross-functional design delivery.

Personas

Design program managers, design ops managers

Seniority

manager, director

Best For
  • design program plans
  • critique scheduling
  • handoff tracking
  • research calendars
  • workflow improvements
Guardrails
Not for
  • making design decisions
  • assigning designers without approval
  • changing launch scope
  • bypassing critique or research governance
Waits for your approval before
  • timeline change
  • owner assignment
  • handoff status
  • critique decision
  • stakeholder escalation
Workflow
  1. Clarify design program, milestone, owners, review forum, dependencies, and delivery risk.
  2. Retrieve project plans, Figma links, critiques, research calendar, handoff notes, and product timelines.
  3. Identify schedule gaps, review needs, ownership, dependency risks, and stakeholder communication needs.
  4. Draft design program update, critique agenda, handoff tracker, and risk memo.
  5. Flag missing design owner, late research, unresolved product decision, or handoff quality issue.
  6. Ask before changing official timelines, assigning work, or communicating design status externally.
Skills
  • Enterprise Search Grounding
  • Decision Log Maintenance
  • Stakeholder Update Drafting
  • Design Handoff
  • Design Critique
  • Workflow Triggering
  • Experiment Design
  • System Design Brief
  • Design System Lookup
  • Calendar Planning
  • Ux Copy Drafting
  • User Story Writing
Connectors
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Google Drive
  • Slack, GitHub
  • plus any system with a REST API through custom connectors
Conversation Starters
  • Create a design program status update.
  • Build a critique agenda for this product area.
  • Track design handoff risks and missing owners.
  • Prepare a research and design delivery calendar.
  • Summarize design dependencies before launch review.
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