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Project/Program Manager

Aditi ConsultingChicago, IL🇺🇸United StatesPosted 22 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Project/Program Manager role offers significant autonomy and the chance to shape program strategy with a competitive hourly rate of $64-65. You'll thrive here if you possess strong UX design and product experience, excel at process improvement, and enjoy driving clarity across diverse teams. Apply now to make a substantial impact and advance your career in operations and project management.

Quick Overview

Salary
$64 - $65/hr
Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Payrate: $64.00- $65.00/hr.
 
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
  • As a Senior UX Program Manager, you will operate with a high degree of independence and ownership in areas where program strategy is still being defined.
  • Your knowledge and experience in product, software, and user experience design will inform your decisions.
  • You have successfully established and managed various design-related processes, resources, and programs that have yielded measurable results.
 
Typical task breakdown:
  • You are adept at evolving, improving, and simplifying processes that scale across multiple teams and methodologies.
  • You excel at driving clarity and alignment among partners and stakeholders.
  • In this role, you will promote operational excellence, process improvement, and team enablement across UX engineering & design functions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to streamline workflows and optimize work practices that align up to a enterprise structure.
 
Education & Experience Required:
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience.
  • 8 + years of successful experience as a UX Producer or Program/Project Manager, Engineering Program/Project manager leading large projects through the full product development life cycle in a large, cross-functional team.
 
Skills:
  • Experience a must with the following tools (e.g., Figma, Azure Dev Ops Confluence and Aha!).
  • Experience with resource planning and program delivery
  • Experience working with project playbooks, building schedules, managing issues/risks, and establishing communication plans
 
Nice to Have Skills:
  • Strong knowledge of project management tools and methodologies (Agile to Waterfall)
  • Experience managing product development portfolios working cross collaboratively with Product, Engineering, Platform, UX Design and Research.
  • Strong ability to effectively manage cross functional projects, dependencies and bottlenecks
  • Experience escalating issues and anticipating and making hard trade-offs between business and customer need
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work effectively with tight deadlines pivoting as necessary in a fast-paced environment
  • High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously with minimal supervision
  • Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive through to delivery
 
Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $64.00 - $65.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match,  life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law. 
 
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Skills

Figma
Agile
Confluence
Process Improvement
Waterfall

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