# Design Program Manager

**Company**: Everlaw
**Location**: Oakland, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000 - $178,000
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Design Program Manager at Everlaw, you'll establish the operating system for our growing product design team, bringing structure, visibility, and predictability to how we design AI-powered litigation tools.

Responsibilities:

- Own the design operating model for planning and delivery , define how design work is estimated, sequenced, and handed off, and maintain the system that makes dependencies and timeline risk visible before they become escalations.

- Define design readiness criteria and coordinate pre-launch quality reviews to ensure shipped features meet high standards for craft, responsiveness, accessibility, and edge cases.

- Own the working interfaces between Design, Product Management, Engineering, User Research, and Technical Writing , define how scope is agreed, how dependencies are tracked, and where conflicts get decided.

- Build and champion lightweight design operations rhythms, frameworks, and templates,such as design briefs and critique structures,to streamline team workflows.

- Manage design resourcing and bandwidth tracking to inform staffing decisions, highlight capacity constraints, and help leadership plan for future team growth.

- Own how design's work is represented to the business , build and maintain the reporting layer (capacity, throughput, readiness) that lets product and executive leadership plan against design.

Requirements:

- At least 5 years of experience in Design Program Management or Design Operations supporting product design teams in complex, enterprise B2B SaaS or data-heavy environments.

- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with a proven ability to translate design progress and complex trade-offs into business-relevant narratives for leadership.

- Strong understanding of user-centered design methodologies, modern UX workflows, and tools like Figma.

- Experience working with project tracking tools like Jira or emerging AI tools.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

- Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses

- Membership to Modern Health to support mental health and wellness

- Paid parental leave

- Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

- Competitive equity grants

- 401(k) plan with company matching of up to 4% of eligible annual compensation

- 17 paid vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and paid sick leave

- Four "Everlawlidays" per year

- Annual allocation for learning & development and relevant professional membership dues

- Hybrid work with regular work-from-home days and flexibility for life's logistics

- Monthly home internet reimbursement, plus a stipend for your desk setup

- Catered lunch each workday, plus snacks and company-wide events in our offices

## Skills

### Required
- Design Program Management
- Design Operations
- User-centered design methodologies
- UX workflows
- Figma
- Jira

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