This job listing expired on Dec 28, 2021
The Role:
You are responsible for planning, scheduling, prioritizing, allocating resources, and driving product development projects through the entire product development lifecycle, including Industrial Design / CMF/ UX/ Packaging Structure & Graphics within the Asia Pacific Design Studio. Outstanding leadership skills, a passion for process, the ability to plan out a calendar, and work with global cross-functional teams will be crucial for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing and monitoring project or program schedules, progress, and costs to ensure that expected results are delivered on time and within budget
- Allocating project resources with discipline functional managers including:Industrial Design
- CMF Design
- Consumer Insight
- UX
- Packaging Structure and Graphics
- Creating, maintaining, and updating project plans as needed
- Consolidating, communicating, and driving issue resolutions to closure
- Maintaining and publishing a project dashboard to communicate the status of projects
- Scheduling project kick-off meetings/reviews with stakeholders
- Publishing meeting minutes, action item logs, and updated schedules to track project status
- Providing functional expertise to assess potential schedule risks and operational impact
- Process & drive external vendor SOWs to closure via contract tool in partnership with Design Lead and Legal Partners
- Process POs, forecast costs, and update budget / financial trackers
- Prior experience managing design projects in the Consumer Electronics industry is very helpful.
You must bring the following behaviors to our team:
- Be a self-starter and independently manage projects and processes
- Strong leadership, influence, and conflict resolution
- Experience interacting and leading multicultural teams
- Experience with Consumer Goods Product Lifecycle management
- Be an avid learner of new processes and systems
- Connect the dots at a strategic level to support cross-functional teams
- See the big picture and get granular with the details
- Lean in and learn new systems and processes
- Bring an open and curious mindset to everything you do
- Impeccable organizational skills
- Have an upbeat, can-do attitude and work well with creatives
- Team-player able to seamlessly partner with designers, marketing, and engineering
- Strong change management and scheduling skills
- Proactive and solutions-oriented with a positive attitude to challenges
- Experience with Consumer Electronics is optimal.
- Able to juggle conflicting priorities
- Be fun to work with!!
As a Design Project Manager, you have:
- Excellent bilingual English/Chinese language skills
- 5+ years Project/ Program Management experience in high tech and consumer products environment with cross-functional teams
- experience leading projects; including industrial design, CMF (colors, materials, finish), and optimally Product Packaging
- Team-oriented: The team player must be able to seamlessly partner with product designers to assess risk, strategize and meet deliverables for projects.
- Superior project scoping, project timeline development, risk assessment, and prioritization skills
- Experience creating comprehensive project timelines utilizing project management software, e.g. Google Suite, Workfront, etc.
Education:
- 4 Year College Degree, BA or BS from accredited university/college or equivalent job experience.