Design Project Manager

Job description:

We are seeking a Design Project Manager with a strong understanding of UX/UI design processes and software development concepts. The ideal candidate will play a dual role: managing the end-to-end delivery of design projects, and acting as the liaison between business stakeholders, the design team, and the development team. This role requires strong organizational skills, a good grasp of design workflows, and the leadership to drive Agile ceremonies, timelines, and project execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design Project Management
• Plan, schedule, and manage design projects from kickoff to handoff, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business goals and translate them into clear design briefs, scope documents, and deliverables.
• Work closely with UX/UI designers, researchers, developers, and QA to ensure design intent is accurately implemented.
• Create and maintain project plans, roadmaps, timelines, resource allocation sheets, and risk registers.
• Manage design review cycles, feedback consolidation, and stakeholder approvals for wireframes, prototypes, and final designs.
• Coordinate design handoff to development, including design specs, assets, and design system documentation.
• Track design effort, manage capacity across designers, and handle change requests and scope adjustments.
• Agile / Scrum Delivery
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies for design and product teams, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Identify and remove impediments to the design and development teams' progress.
• Work with Product Owners to maintain a well-defined and prioritized backlog of design and product work.
• Define acceptance criteria for design deliverables and support usability testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Track and report on project and Agile metrics (velocity, burndown, on-time delivery, design turnaround time) to drive continuous improvement.
• Coach team members and stakeholders on Agile and design-delivery best practices.
• Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Serve as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders, designers, and engineers.
• Provide regular status updates, risk reports, and escalations to leadership and clients.
• Ensure business needs align with user experience goals and technical feasibility.
• Support developers by providing clarity on user flows, design decisions, and business logic.
• Contribute to design operations: process improvement, templates, and design system adoption.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Business, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 4-5 years of experience in project management, with at least 2 years managing design / UX / digital product projects.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PSM, or PMP certification is a plus.
• Hands-on experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Asana, or similar project management tools.
• Working familiarity with design and prototyping tools such as Figma (reviewing files, comments, handoff workflows).
• Understanding of the UX design lifecycle: research, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, and design systems.
• Exposure to development concepts such as APIs, front-end/back-end frameworks, and system integrations.
• Excellent planning, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams and facilitate collaboration between design, business, and technology groups.

Skills

Agile, Asana, Confluence, Figma, Jira, Kanban, SAFe, Scrum