Principal Design Operations Manager

Your Mission:

As a Principle Design Operations Manager, you’ll play a vital role in an environment where innovation meets collaboration. You will be a key driver in optimizing our product development lifecycle, ensuring our teams operate efficiently and our products meet customer needs.

Responsibilities:

• Process Optimization: Actively create, improve, and document scalable, agile processes to ensure our design and product teams are aligned and operating at an excellent rhythm.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the connective tissue between design, product, engineering, data, and executive leadership to facilitate communication, align on project timelines, and identify opportunities for increased efficiency.
• Operational Excellence: Partner with stakeholders to identify and resolve operational roadblocks, streamlining workflows to help design and product teams deliver as much as they can.
• Feedback & Communication: Provide excellent communication to the broader business on product updates and release timelines. Gather product signals from customer-facing teams and external sources to help inform product strategy.
• All things data: Customer behavior, sentiment and conversion are all critical data points to building the best possible product. Centralize and operationalize product data to inform our roadmaps and product strategy.
• Tool & System Administration: Act as a subject matter expert for our design tools (e.g., Jira, Figma, Asana), providing support and ensuring they are configured to enable efficient workflows.

What You’ll Bring to Engine:

We’re looking for someone who’s ready to make an impact and grow alongside us. You are a hands-on problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience: 6+ years of experience building out operations for design and/or product teams
• Skills: You are exceptional at prioritization and distilling complex processes or problems into their simplest form, rolling out changes iteratively, and ensuring projects stay on time and on task.
• Technical Acumen: You have a deep understanding of product development lifecycles and agile methodologies. Bonus points if you have experience with production support or program management.
• Executive Presence: Experience presenting strategic plans to C-level executives.
• Mindset: You’re ready to roll up your sleeves, collaborate, come up with solutions and deliver results that matter.

Applications for this role will be accepted through April 17, 2026 or until the role is filled. We encourage you to apply early, as we may begin reviewing applications before the deadline.