Optomi, in partnership with an innovative and fast-growing software company within the automotive industry, is seeking an experienced Project Manager for their Plano, TX location! This Project Manager will need a unique combination of product awareness and customer focused project management, along with experience working directly with UX designers, software engineers, QA testers, and other managers to enable efficient, outcome-focused process.
What the right Candidate will enjoy:
Experience of the right candidate:
Responsibilities of the right candidate:
What the right Candidate will enjoy:
- Competitive compensation!
- Large clientele with large budget projects!
- Provide excellent leadership!
- Working at a innovate company!
Experience of the right candidate:
- 3+ years experience managing UX production teams.
- Experience working with Jira, Figma, and a solid understanding of Git-based repositories (e.g., GitLab, GitHub).
- Direct experience with a design systems team, automotive industry experience, and Japanese language skills (considered a “super stretch goal”).
- Proven experience working with a software development team to deliver a production application.
- The ideal candidate has hands-on experience managing production application projects with UX, engineering, and product teams.
- Experience in a “linchpin” role, coordinating across multiple teams, is highly valued, as is demonstrated flexibility and the ability to thrive in chaos.
Responsibilities of the right candidate:
- The team manages the core elements of visual design and the software that connects design to code. They are very UX-minded, engaging in "collegiate discourse" to understand how changes to a single component can cascade throughout the system, impacting many screens and applications. This requires purposeful decision-making due to the powerful nature of their work.
- The team operates with an agile mindset where they "go get stuff done" within a broader, strict waterfall program, managing hard deadlines and frequent reassessments, requiring constant adaptation and flexibility.
