Design Producer

Mindlance is a national recruiting company which partners with many of the leading employers across the country. Feel free to check us out at http://www.mindlance.com.

Responsibilities:

• Actively leads the design team and is recognized by stakeholders as Design's single Point-of-Contact.

• Acts as scrum master for Design team backlog: attends release planning, runs standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies, as required.

• Tracks all major project milestones and deliverables.

• Ensures that design sprint plans meet broader timelines for any dependencies with our technology organization and business partners.

• Oversees design resource allocation, ensuring design resources are not over or under allocated.

• Coordinates contracts, milestones and deliverables with external agencies.

• Identifies project risks and formulates and implements risk mitigation techniques to minimize issues.

• Demonstrates the ability to handle project ambiguity and lead delivery teams to identify creative solutions.

• Schedules and manages team meetings and communicates assignments to ensure timely delivery, while also ensuring meetings are efficient and minimized

• Supports the design team's implementation of standards and design guidelines

• Prepares management reporting, including status, project health and financials

• Ensures all applicable reviews and sign-offs are in place

• Creates partnerships with Product and Technology organizations, to drive end-to-end execution

• 5+ years of applicable industry experience, preferably in project and program management

• Agile experience desired. SCRUM master certification is a plus.

• User Experience background is required.

• Excellent communications & interpersonal skills

Thanks & Regards
Praveen K. Paila
470-202-1117