Everlaw
Design Program Manager
Oakland, California, United States · Full-time
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About the role
- This is a full-time, exempt position based in our Oakland, CA office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home on Tu/Fr.
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, so those questions have a standing answer instead of being renegotiated per project.
- 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, rather than assembling narrative updates each cycle.
- You've built and scaled lightweight design operations frameworks, delivery plans, and resource tracking processes without stifling creative momentum.
- You bring excellent communication and storytelling skills, with a proven ability to translate design progress and complex trade-offs into business-relevant narratives for leadership.
- You operate with a low-ego, highly collaborative style, finding genuine fulfillment in making design teams visible and successful.
- You have experience working with project tracking tools like Jira or emerging AI tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Design).
Requirements
- You have 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.
- You bring a strong understanding of user-centered design methodologies, modern UX workflows, and tools like Figma.
Skills
- This is a full-time, exempt position based in our
- Oakland, CA office with a hybrid work schedule:
- in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home on Tu/Fr.
Compensation
- 401(k) plan with company matching of up to 4% of eligible annual compensation
- Four "Everlawlidays" (additional paid company-wide days off) per year
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, so you share in Everlaw's long-term growth
- 17 paid vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and paid sick leave
- Annual allocation for learning & development and relevant professional membership dues
- Monthly home internet reimbursement, plus a stipend for your desk setup
Company info
- We use Gem as part of our hiring and/or promotional processes.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You are authorized to work in the United States without restrictions.
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