Senior Messaging Program Manager

Date Posted: 06/04/2025

Hiring Organization: Rose International

Position Number: 483707

Industry: Social Media

Job Title: Senior Messaging Program Manager

Job Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA, 94025

Work Model: Onsite

Employment Type: Temporary

FT/PT: Full-Time

Estimated Duration (In months): 6

Min Hourly Rate($): 91.00

Max Hourly Rate($): 117.00

Must Have Skills/Attributes: Design, Messaging, Product Design, Program management, Project Management, Stakeholders, Technical

Experience Desired: Product Design (consumer features) (5+ yrs); Consumer Tech/Social Media Industry (10+ yrs); Project Management (7+ yrs); Platform Messaging (5+ yrs)

Required Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Certifications/Licenses: Not Required

Job Description
Education/Experience:
Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field required.
PMI or PMP certification preferred.

Must have:
Must be able to collaborate and be independent.
Great operator, with clear communication. Must be able to communicate with designers as well as senior stakeholders and present.
Product Design Projects - experience in complex consumer products, specifically someone that has worked deeply on product design (anything where they worked in a medium size company in consumer features)
An individual that can manage complex programs across stakeholder and someone who is coachable.

Nice to have:
Experience with technical projects - having a technical background.
Has been responsible of supporting engineering teams 20+ people.
Google G-suite.

Years of Experience:
10+ years in consumer tech.

Overview:
Client Messaging App is a vital part of daily life for billions around the globe - and messaging is at the heart of that. Our team purpose is to make messaging the people you care about easier, useful, and more delightful. Over the past few years, we've evolved the experience from introducing new formats and interactions (e.g. video notes, voice message transcriptions, events) to new bets (e.g. Communities) and features (e.g. lists and filters). At the same time, Client Messaging App is seeing an increasingly competitive messaging landscape - from content apps leaning into messaging to 3P messaging apps building stronger footholds with richer feature sets.

We're looking for a program manager to help support the Messaging product team. This senior program manager will help drive horizontal program operations across the Messaging sub-pillar, be on point for specific usability projects that help our billions of daily Messaging users.

Job Responsibilities:
Coordinate horizontal workstreams across Messaging to improve the efficiency of the sub-pillar, enable better stakeholder management.
Coordinate usability projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical and design solutions.
Confer with product, designers, engineers, and marketing to discuss and align on project specifications and procedures.
Will be supporting the operational aspects of the role.
Will also support the messaging product team.
The assignment will be a combination of helping with horizontal program operations as well as take on some point work streams and projects that are not so product heavy. Will have more direct alignment with the design and engineering teams.
For the usability pipeline projects the team needs execution support.
The CW will be leveraging data management to improve the reliability and ease of backups (from one device to another) and to provide support from an operational standpoint.
The team is looking for a PM that is more focused on design.
The selected candidate will lead product cycles as well as checking for steers and things of that nature.

Skills:
Experience working on consumer features/workstreams with close design collaborations
Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, attention to detail and interpersonal skills.
Strong ability to work independently and manage one's time.
Strong leadership and mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.
Strong knowledge of product development processes and execution to maximize efficiency of the team and visibility to stakeholders
Strong knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, and production methods.
Strong knowledge of computer software, such as Google Docs, Sheets, Slides

• **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

• **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client's business needs and requirements.**

Benefits:
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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.

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