Technical Project Manager

• The role can be fully remote or onsite/hybrid, no preferred time zone as long as it’s continental US.
• If hybrid, we’d follow the RSC schedule for Tues-Thurs onsite so that it’s at least consistent with the other teams that this person would be working alongside.
• We’re seeking a highly experienced Senior Design Project Manager to drive the orchestration of design activities across a major app redesign.
• This contract role is critical to ensuring our design team is set up for success across strategy, execution, and delivery.
• You will act as a central connector between design, product, engineering, and business stakeholders to keep work on track, on time, and aligned with our broader product goals.

Role & Responsibilities:
Program & Project Management:

• Own and manage the full schedule of design tasks, deliverables, dependencies, and hand-offs across the app redesign.
• Oversee capacity planning and resource allocation across design contributors, balancing workloads and adjusting to changing priorities.
• Proactively identify, track, and mitigate risks related to schedule, resources, or quality.
• Manage and streamline the design review and approval process with clear checkpoints and decision gates.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Serve as the liaison between design and cross-functional partners including product, engineering, marketing, and leadership.
• Participate in PI planning, roadmap discussions, and alignment meetings to ensure design timelines and dependencies are accounted for.
• Represent design in stakeholder meetings and program reviews.

Agile & Workflow Operations:

• Lead and facilitate design-specific ceremonies such as stand-ups, sprint planning, design reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and scrum teams to ensure design work is reflected in roadmaps, Jira tickets, and sprint plans.
• Translate product and stakeholder inputs into clear design user stories with defined acceptance criteria.

UX, UI, & Design Systems Support:

• Partner with design and research leads to support UX research, usability testing, and user validation activities within the sprint cadence.
• Maintain a strong understanding of UX and UI practices to intelligently advocate for design quality and feasibility.
• Ensure high-quality delivery of design assets and documentation via tools such as Figma and ZeroHeight.
• Champion consistency through oversight of design systems and adherence to established patterns and component governance.

Communication & Governance:

• Create clear documentation, meeting notes, and executive-level updates to support decision-making and visibility.
• Maintain accountability across the design team by tracking responsibilities, deadlines, and outcomes.
• Help shape and enforce design operations best practices that enable efficiency, clarity, and strong team collaboration.

Required Skills & experience:

• 5+ years of experience in digital project or program management, with at least 3 years supporting UX/UI or product design teams.
• Deep proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Figma, and Zero Height.
• Strong working knowledge of agile and waterfall methodologies, and ability to flex between them.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-track digital design projects from initiation through delivery.
• Clear understanding of the UX and UI design lifecycle, including research, interaction design, visual design, and design systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to confidently engage with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Detail-oriented, organized, and adept at keeping multiple threads moving without letting quality slip.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in large-scale app or platform redesigns.
• Familiarity with product design tools, design tokens, and development hand-off best practices.
• Background in customer-centric or consumer-facing digital products.

About our Company: –
22nd Century Technologies, Inc., is one of the fastest growing IT Service Integrator and Workforce Solution companies in the United States. Founded in 1997, 22nd Century Technologies is a Certified National Minority Business Enterprise with 6,000+ people including 600+ Cyber SMEs nationwide supporting our customers in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. With HQs in Somerset, NJ and Mclean, VA, 22nd Century has 14 offices throughout the United States. As part of our unrelenting focus on quality and compliance, 22nd Century Technologies’ delivery is based on Certified Matured Processes including CMMI L3 Dev & SVC, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001 quality processes. With a strong focus on the public sector, 22nd Century currently holds government contracts with 14 out of 15 Federal Executive agencies including DoD, 37 other Federal agencies, 50 States, 115+ Local agencies, and 37 School Districts. In the last three years, we have expanded our services to Fortune 500 and other commercial clients and currently support 80+ commercial clients.
Recognized among “Best Company to Work For” by Forbes, 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., consistently exceeds our clients’ expectations by focusing on their absolute satisfaction with jobs while keeping our employees motivated.
“22nd Century Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer” and “US Citizens & all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.”
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.