Principal Design Program Manager, International Packaging

Jobgether SRL; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Principal Design Program Manager, International Packaging based in the United States. The role shapes global packaging operations, establishing scalable frameworks and standards for creative teams across international markets.

You will lead cross-functional programs spanning design, marketing, legal, and supply chain to align vision with regulatory and business goals. You will build onboarding standards, documentation, and governance processes, enabling scalable growth

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in design program management, creative operations, or related discipline, with healthcare exposure.

Responsibilities

• Establish global design operations standards and scalable frameworks across international markets.
• Provide strategic leadership to design, legal, supply chain, and marketing stakeholders.
• Build onboarding standards, process docs, and operating frameworks for PM practices.
• Develop global prioritization criteria for regulatory timelines, creative capacity, and business impact.
• Create dashboards and reporting to provide leadership visibility into status, risks, and capacity.
• Oversee end-to-end packaging programs across multiple regions, ensuring alignment and timely delivery.

Skills

Global packaging strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Healthcare packaging experience

Program management

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Design Program Manager, International Packaging based in the United States.

Overview

We are seeking a strategic and experienced Principal Design Program Manager to shape global packaging and industrial design operations across multiple international markets. In this high-impact role, you will establish scalable frameworks, prioritization models, and operating standards that enable creative teams to deliver exceptional packaging solutions efficiently and consistently. You will lead complex, cross-functional programs spanning design, marketing, legal, supply chain, and production, ensuring alignment between creative vision, regulatory requirements, and business objectives. Working across Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, you will bring structure to ambiguity, anticipate risks, and facilitate informed decisions about timelines, resources, and priorities. You will also help define the foundations of a growing design program management function, establishing best practices that future team members can build upon. This is an opportunity to influence global healthcare packaging strategy while helping creative teams thrive in a fast‑paced, evolving environment.

Accountabilities

• Establish global design operations standards: Develop the frameworks, operating principles, decision‑making models, and program management practices that support consistent, scalable packaging and industrial design operations across international markets.
• Provide strategic program leadership: Serve as a subject matter expert in global packaging program management, advising leadership, design, legal, supply chain, and marketing stakeholders on program strategy, operational challenges, and execution priorities.
• Build scalable processes and infrastructure: Create onboarding standards, process documentation, and operational frameworks that strengthen the design program management function and support the development of future team members.
• Develop global prioritization frameworks: Establish clear criteria for evaluating regional urgency, regulatory deadlines, creative capacity, dependencies, and business impact to enable informed prioritization and effective resource allocation.
• Improve organizational decision‑making: Build dashboards, briefing templates, escalation pathways, and reporting mechanisms that provide leadership with visibility into program status, capacity constraints, dependencies, and risks before they affect delivery.
• Lead international packaging programs: Architect and oversee end-to‑end program management for packaging and print graphics across Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, ensuring timeline integrity, cross-regional alignment, dependency management, and consistent execution.
• Strengthen regional stakeholder partnerships: Develop trusted relationships with regional design, production, marketing, supply chain, and legal teams to identify challenges early, align expectations, and support successful program delivery.
• Integrate regulatory compliance into creative workflows: Develop working knowledge of healthcare packaging regulations across markets and incorporate compliance checkpoints into the design process from the earliest stages.
• Translate regulatory requirements into actionable guidance: Convert complex compliance requirements into clear creative briefs, review criteria, and production expectations that enable designers and legal partners to collaborate effectively.
• Protect creative intent throughout production: Partner with designers from initial briefing through final production files, balancing creative quality with operational requirements, regulatory considerations, and production constraints.
• Coordinate cross‑disciplinary packaging expertise: Facilitate collaboration across print graphics, structural packaging, industrial design, and color, material, and finish (CMF) disciplines, helping teams resolve technical challenges and maintain production quality.
• Improve capacity planning and resource visibility: Establish capacity dashboards, resourcing reviews, and structured trade‑off discussions that make creative bandwidth and constraints visible to stakeholders and encourage proactive planning.
• Drive continuous improvement: Identify recurring process bottlenecks, anticipate execution risks, and refine program management practices to improve efficiency, quality, and predictability across global packaging initiatives.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience: 8–10 or more years of experience in design program management, creative operations, or a related discipline, with meaningful experience in healthcare,