Principal Design Program Manager

OREGON EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT - Salem, OR

Part-time - Senior

Salem, OR

About the position

The Principal Design Program Manager will lead and manage complex, multi-disciplinary projects within the Oracle Brand Experience team, focusing on brand stewardship and execution across various creative disciplines. This role is pivotal in delivering global tours and events, ensuring projects are completed on time and meet high standards of quality. The ideal candidate will possess strong organizational skills, the ability to navigate ambiguity, and a collaborative spirit to work with various partner teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive a range of complex and multi-disciplinary projects from kick-off through execution, including managing timelines and deadlines, running meetings, scheduling creative reviews, and being a primary liaison with partner teams.
• Own massively complex global design initiatives and deliver them flawlessly.
• Support the delivery of multiple medium scale events (1500-5000 attendees each) with competing timelines, priorities, and deadlines and limited resources.
• Understand delivery, workflows, and workstreams for live events.
• Support the delivery and scale of sophisticated web and digital production projects including the optimization of process and workflow for a high functioning design and creative organization.
• Provide transparency on design team activities to partner teams and manage expectations.
• Work with partner teams to organize project requirements and drive to limit ambiguity.
• Routinely communicate project statuses, clearly manage expectations.
• Assess and manage risks, foresee and resolve bottlenecks, proactively escalate potential issues, and balance business needs versus technical constraints.
• Work closely with Creative Directors to proactively clarify requirements and use cases, actively seeking clarification when there is ambiguity.
• Work across teams to create strong relationships with stakeholders and senior leadership teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years operating as a project manager or producer in the creative and/or digital advertising industry (agency-side, design studio, or in-house) - live events experience preferred.
• Understanding of graphics process, especially as it comes to live events.
• Experience managing complex, multi-discipline creative projects and marketing with multiple cross-functional partners, and ensuring successful delivery for all parties involved.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize, monitor and manage workload.
• Able to identify and mitigate risk on projects.
• Understanding of project management principles, creative process, and production workflows within a creative department or advertising agency.
• Experience working with Project Management software. Wrike is a PLUS.
• Experience leading multiple projects with fast timelines and different personalities.
• Confident managing projects in a constantly evolving environment.
• Thrive on direct, honest, and supportive communication.
• Experience working with international territories/global stakeholders.