Design Producer

Design Producer
Location: Hybrid in Culver City, CA OR Cupertino, CA
Schedule: 40 hours
Duration: 6 months
Pay: $72-$74.64 DOE

The Planet Group is looking for a Design Producer to join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 6-months contract, working a hybrid schedule out of Culver City, CA or Cupertino, CA.

Design Producer | Qualifications:

• You're a self-starter, self-motivated, and able to work independently, performing multiple tasks under minimal supervision.
• You're a strong systems and strategic thinker, and bring creativity to the operational aspects of a design team and deal with solving the "how" freeing up your team to focus on crafting the "what".
• You're a natural collaborator, strong communicator, and able to help develop and present design ideas in a large team environment.
• You connect dots across work streams, anticipate how decisions are made, and work collaboratively with partners and stakeholders.
• You have demonstrated strong performance in your prior roles, thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous and deadline driven environment, and demonstrate problem-solving capabilities with limited oversight.

Design Producer | Description:

• Initiate and run multiple concurrent projects, across various products and releases with demonstrated ability to meet deadlines.
• Drive tight alignment of activities across teams through cross-functional planning and strong communication.
• Organize and lead design brainstorms and workshops, coordinate and facilitate meetings and design discussions.
• Gather key ideas, decisions, issues, and action items in succinct and clear meeting notes.
• Track and report project health on a weekly basis, including communicating status and impending or projected results.
• Anticipate challenges and formulate plans to unblock the team and move projects forward.
• Negotiate priorities for the design team given limited resources and an aggressive schedule.
• Manage cross functional relationships and partnerships while representing design team.
• Ensure timely handoff of design specs to engineering.
• Review builds to ensure design integrity has remained intact during implementation.
• Improve processes and communications in an ever-changing, fast-paced working environment.