Principal Design Program Manager, International Packaging

JobgetherHealthcare packaging

Based in the United StatesFull-TimePrincipal

SalaryAnnual base salary ranging from $190,000 to $220,000, with equity compensation opportunities for eligible full-time employees.

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Experience: 8–10 or more years of experience in design program management, creative operations, or a related discipline
Required Skills: FigmaAsana

Have 8–10 or more years of experience in design program management, creative operations, or a related discipline.
Bring meaningful experience in healthcare, consumer goods, or regulated packaging environments.
Have developed operational processes and program management infrastructure, particularly where frameworks were limited or evolving.
Have managed packaging programs from kickoff through production readiness and press checks.
Demonstrate experience influencing organizational practices and decisions beyond individual projects.
Have designed and implemented prioritization frameworks for sequencing, resource allocation, and business alignment.
Bring working fluency in industrial design, structural packaging, print graphics production, and color, material, and finish (CMF).
Be familiar with dielines, color management, press-ready specifications, and vendor pre-press workflows.
Understand regulated packaging requirements and how to integrate compliance reviews into design and production workflows.
Manage complex, multi-region programs, interdependent workstreams, risks, timelines, deliverables, and resource constraints.
Use data, capacity insights, and risk assessments to support prioritization and trade-offs.
Have experience with Asana, Airtable, Google Workspace, and Dropbox, and comfort reviewing creative work and collaborating through Figma.

Establish operating standards, decision-making models, and program management practices for international packaging and industrial design operations.
Advise leadership and design, legal, supply chain, and marketing stakeholders on program strategy and execution priorities.
Build onboarding standards, process documentation, and operational frameworks for the design program management function.
Develop prioritization criteria for regional urgency, regulatory deadlines, creative capacity, dependencies, and business impact.
Create dashboards, briefing templates, escalation pathways, and reporting mechanisms to improve visibility into status, capacity, dependencies, and risks.
Oversee end-to-end packaging and print graphics programs across Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Integrate regulatory compliance checkpoints into design workflows and translate requirements into creative briefs and review criteria.
Partner with designers from initial briefing through final production files while balancing creative intent and production constraints.
Facilitate collaboration across print graphics, structural packaging, industrial design, and color, material, and finish disciplines.
Establish capacity dashboards and resourcing reviews, identify process bottlenecks, and refine program management practices.

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