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We have an immediate contract position with our direct client.

Job Title: Design Operations Specialist

Location: Remote, CA

Pay Rate: $57-$62/hr W2

Contract Duration: 6 months

Schedule: Monday-Friday; 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week. Should be willing to flex and work OT in order to meet deadlines.

Description:

Client is seeking a highly detailed and process-driven Design Operations Specialist who will collaborate with our Content, Creative, and Web teams to optimize cross-functional workflows. The Specialist will play a crucial role in streamlining design operations, improving productivity, and ensuring seamless project execution to support our overall design initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management and possess a deep understanding of design processes and systems.

The ideal candidate is passionate about streamlining processes and operations, optimizing resource allocation across teams, and collaborating cross-functionally to streamline design workflows. They will play a key role in managing design projects, maintaining design libraries to ensure consistency across design projects. They will coordinate project schedules, maintain project documentation, and analyze design processes to enhance operational efficiency within the design team.

What You Will Be Doing:

Optimize and streamline workflows between Content, Creative, and Web teams
Identify repetitive tasks and propose opportunities for automations
Manage Creative queue, provide ongoing support and training to teams regarding new processes
Build dashboard reporting to monitor and analyze team workload capacity to identify areas for optimization
Analyze and evaluate design processes and workflows to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
Maintain design libraries and style guides to ensure consistency and coherence across all design projects.
Coordinate project schedules, track progress, and communicate project updates to stakeholders.
Partner with the PMO team to streamline cross-functional workflows to ensure teams are working on the highest priority projects.

Qualifications and Skills:

A minimum of 4 years managing Design teams, project management experience, process optimization, or design project execution
Demonstrates a deep understanding of design processes, tools, managing design projects, and optimizing design workflows