Senior Design Program Manager

Fox Corporation produces and distributes content through leading brands like FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations, and Tubi Media Group. We empower diverse creators to develop culturally significant content while building an organization driven by creative ideas, operational expertise, and strategic thinking.

The FOX direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform is a new initiative within Tubi Media Group, bringing FOX’s unparalleled content portfolio—news, sports, and entertainment—directly to consumers via an innovative subscription streaming service. Our vision is to create a unified, modern viewing experience that prioritizes the consumer, seamlessly integrating live and on-demand content across platforms. This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and trusted storytelling, offering the opportunity to shape the future of streaming at a pivotal moment in media.

About The Role

We are hiring a Senior Design Program Manager to serve as the operational backbone and advocate for the design team. This is a senior role for someone who will engage with product, engineering, and executives to ensure design’s time, capacity, and quality of work are represented and defended. You will report to the Head of Design and partner daily with product management and senior leadership. You will own how design work is planned, staffed, sequenced, and delivered across three surfaces and several flagship brands. When timelines are unrealistic, you will address it with data-backed plans. When the team is over capacity, you will work with leadership to determine tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Capacity Planning and Forecasting
  • Own a living model of Design team capacity across multiple product surfaces, tracking allocation, availability, and workload to proactively identify resource constraints and opportunities.
  • Forecast Design demand against the product roadmap and translate upcoming work into staffing plans, providing leadership with early visibility into capacity risks and resourcing needs using data and insights.
  • Lead the end-to-end Design intake process by evaluating new requests, sizing effort, prioritizing work, and routing or deferring initiatives based on strategic priorities and team capacity.
• Roadmap and Timeline Negotiation
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to sequence Design work across release timelines, live events, and cross-functional dependencies while ensuring realistic delivery plans.
  • Represent Design in roadmap planning by advocating for appropriate timelines, proposing phased approaches or scope adjustments, and clearly communicating tradeoffs when priorities compete.
  • Track and manage cross-functional dependencies to reduce delivery risk, remove blockers early, and ensure Design work progresses reliably.
  • Protect the Design team’s focus by balancing incoming demand with available capacity, enabling designers to spend time on high-impact product work.
• Design Operations and Delivery Accountability
  • Own the operational execution of Design delivery, including planning, prioritization, status reporting, proactive risk management, and delivery tracking that leadership can rely on.
  • Build, optimize, and scale Design operations processes, documentation, and workflows across tools including Figma, Jira, and Confluence to improve efficiency and reduce operational overhead.
• Cross-Functional Partnership
  • Serve as Design’s operational representative in Product, Engineering, and leadership forums, translating Design priorities, constraints, and capacity into clear business decisions.
  • Facilitate retrospectives and continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen planning, collaboration, and execution across Design and cross-functional partners.

Requirements

• Experience: Typically, 8+ years in design program management or design operations.
• Backbone and Diplomacy: Comfortable being the vocal representative of design. Able to hold healthy tension, push back on senior partners, and drive decisions to a conclusion without full consensus while maintaining trust and relationships.
• Design Literacy: Care about craft and interaction quality. Can understand and defend a design rationale, not just enforce a date.
• Capacity and Roadmap Planning: Hands-on experience with capacity planning, resourcing, intake, roadmapping, and prioritization across competing demands.
• Process Fluency: Fluency with agile and sprint processes and with design and program tools such as Figma, Jira, and Confluence (or equivalents).
• Judgment in Ambiguity: Create clarity from ambiguity, know which problems to invest in and which to deprioritize, and have a strong bias to action.
• Regular, on-site attendance at the workplace a minimum of 3 days per week is required.

Nice to Have

• Direct experience in streaming, OTT, sports, or news/live media, and an understanding of the constraints of live-first, multi-platform (app, web, connected TV) products.
• Experience standing up or scaling a DesignOps function or design system program.
• Experience partnering across multiple brands or business units.
• Familiarity with design systems governance and how design work is reviewed and delivered across multi-format ecosystems.

Pay

The pay range for this role is $128,000–$185,000 annually, with the final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, medical/dental/vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.