Design Producer – Tools

Design Producer - Tools
Location: Onsite: Cupertino, CA
Schedule: 40 hours
Duration: 6 months
Pay: $95/hr - $99.58/hr DOE

The Planet Group is looking for a Design Producer to join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 6-months contract, working onsite on Cupertino, CA location.

Design Producer | Qualifications:

• 7+ years as a producer/project manager in software design, digital or creative agency experience preferred
• Understanding of UX/UI and software ideation, execution, and delivery processes
• Understanding of desktop, mobile, and native app design best practices
• Thorough understanding of integrating design, business, marketing, engineering and stakeholder teams to clarify project requirements, define design goals and strategy, execution, and delivery processes
• Ability to grasp complexity quickly, focus on key issues, while adapting to constant change
• Proven ability to meet deadlines and drive results while juggling many projects and priorities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Design Producer | Description:

We believe design matters. Design is at the heart of work that we do. The Design Producer will play a big part in upholding these values and driving innovation and creativity though our design work. We strive for a strong eye and passion for design with a strong attention to detail, being resourceful, adaptable, creative, and results oriented with high energy and a positive outlook. This is a fast-paced team focused on complex design challenges. This position works closely with many other teams and will be an advocate for user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Manage cross functional relationships while representing design team
• Support the HI team to create project plans set key milestones, and track issues
• Lead design brainstorms and workshops
• Run meetings and design reviews. Gather key ideas, decisions, issues, and action items in meeting notes.
• Track and report project health on a weekly basis, including communicating status and impending or projected results
• Drive planning of in partnership with Design Manager
• Negotiate priorities for the design team given limited resources and at times aggressive schedules
• Ensure timely handoff of design comps and specs to engineering
• Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure design integrity has remained intact during implementation
• Constantly improve processes and communications in an ever-changing, fast-paced working environment