Preferred Qualifications

Every day, enterprises around the world focus on how to help their employees work simpler and smarter. And while enterprises are as diverse as the people in them, ranging from global manufacturing concerns, to healthcare companies taking care of the elderly, to renowned universities, and even one of the fastest growing cities in the world, they all share many core needs. They need to take care of their employees and their families by putting them in control of their benefits. They need to connect employees with their customers so they in turn can thrive. They need to thoughtfully manage their valuable resources. They need to work efficiently with the vendors they depend on. And so much more.

 

Helping everyone work simpler and smarter means letting enterprises focus on what makes each of them special. They focus on what they are best at, and in turn, let Oracle do the rest. The scope of our opportunity is enormous. At Oracle, we are committed to creating a state-of-the-art consumer-grade enterprise experience that connects, empowers and delights our users, and is the factor that distinguishes our software from the competition.

 

Yes. We are absolutely serious.

 

And we can’t do it without your help.

 

We need thoughtful, talented, multi-faceted Design Program Managers who love empowering technology users with high quality interaction and visual design to join our team.

 

Here is the kind of person we’re looking for.

You thrive on working well with others. You make the people around you better. You love to collaborate with designers, user researchers, engineers, product managers, executives, and inspire them to do their best.

 

You get stuff done.

You love rules and you know when to break them. You think systemically because you know that creating a coherent experience requires it. But you know when the system needs to expand to accommodate a user’s varied conceptual model. And you know when to do something completely unique to create an arresting and product-defining moment in the product that makes users ooh and aah.

You do not already know everything, and you love to learn. You are inspired by helping users solve their problems. You love finding out you are wrong. You consume large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data to constantly refine your assumptions.

And finally, you want to be part of creating dramatic and impactful change at a company that is committed to becoming a light unto others when it comes to user experience design.
 

You might have learned your craft via formal training or via on-the-job training. For most candidates, it is a combination of both. As long as you have experience and passion doing this work at the highest level, we would love to talk to talk to you and see a portfolio of the work you are most proud of.
 

We have studios in our Silicon Valley headquarters, Seattle, and in Guadalajara, Mexico. If you are interested, please get in touch. We would love to hear from you.

 

What will you do as a Design Program Manager on the Oracle Design team at Oracle?


 

We are looking for a Design Program Manager (DPM) to join the Oracle Design team. This role supports the planning across multiple areas including component interaction design, design operations and visual production team. As a design program manager, you will be responsible for managing the backlog of projects, components and visual assets. As part of the job it is expected to organize project by priority, outline tracks of work, manage Jira tickets, and maintain a clear roadmap across areas. Specific areas of influence may include the component systems, visual systems, data visualization, icon/imagery production, global events, as well as special strategic assignments. The DPM will learn the world of design operations and how it interacts with procurement, legal, finance, resourcing, creative, tech and marketing. They are skilled in tooling and capable of figuring out and improving process to enable better design outcomes. The ability to use modern productivity tools to deliver complex experiences and manage multiple working and communication styles is key.

  
Strong organization and communication skills are required, as well as the ability to offer unique creative solutions, manage/negotiate the expectations of your team and your business partners, drive high levels of design performance in a high-velocity/high-volume work environment, and stay in active communication with the creative teams, business partners, and external design partners.

 

 

CORE RESPONSIBLITIES\:

• DesignOps. Continually work to optimize process and workflow for a high functioning design organization.
• Build and own processes to identify and remove blockers to enable great design.
• Resource management including resource allocation based on content slates and upcoming work.
• Set expectations with design and business partner teams and product development to handle prioritization for all work that come through.
• Deep dive into project requirements gaining understanding of needs for projects that may at times be ambiguous.
• Maintain roadmaps and clear reports that show projects and components per release and functional categories.
• Manage the backlog and plans according to the release schedule and align the team members towards clear milestones.
• Act as a Scrum master and use Agile planning techniques to drive key projects.
• Manage communication channels and provide consistent and predictable reports to executive stakeholders, product management, product pillar design teams, and product development.
   

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS\:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 1-3 years of experience as a Jr PM/Producer in a digital design or marketing/advertising industry or similar role.
• Excellent hard skills in project management and operations.
• Tech savvy. Should be able to master Oracle tools quickly.
• Self-starting, flexible, highly organized, detail-oriented, reliable, and has the ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to work cross-team and synthesize feedback and input from Marketing, Product, Creative and partners.
• Team player with refined leadership skills and ability to positively influence change through solid rationale, supporting data, and diplomacy.
• Have relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo).
• Strong excel skills and experience working with project management software required 
• Scrum Master certification is a plus.
• Jira, Confluence and Wrike knowledge is a plus.

 

 As part of Oracle’s employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, after a conditional offer has been extended.

 

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.

!|!Responsible for creating, evaluating and modifying prototypes to support evolving hardware and software application development.

As a member of the User Experience team, you will develop and apply software design/usability processes in the investigation of technical problems. May develop user profiles, with emphasis on human error control, display issues, visual interaction, physical manipulation and task and objective analyses. Provide product usability, evaluation and support to product development teams, including the analysis and investigation of applications/systems including tactile methods, visual graphics, web, multimedia, voice response and conversational user interaction. May assist in developing design concept and implementation, providing input on user design considerations. May produce specifications describing user needs and internal structures for product in development.

Duties and tasks are varied and complex utilizing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. Typically four years of software engineering or related experience needed.

Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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