# Senior Design Operations Program Manager - Agentic Design

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Toronto, Canada
**Role:** Product Operations
**Salary:** CA$118k – CA$162k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Ai Design Tools, Generative AI, LLMs, Model Context Protocol, Figma, Figma Plugins, Figjam, Jira, Confluence, Agentic Workflows, Design Systems, Accessibility, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI
**Posted:** 2026-09-11

> Leads AI tooling adoption, design-system change management, accessibility operations, and enablement programs across a large design organization. Requires 4+ years in design or creative operations, hands-on generative AI experience, and familiarity with modern design tools and workflows.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### AI and Agentic Design Enablement
- Drive AI adoption, evaluation, and workflow integration across Product Design, UX Research, and Content Design.
- Manage intake, evaluation, and approval for design plug-ins, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, and generative AI tools.
- Partner with engineering teams to operationalize, launch, and drive adoption of internal AI tools and agentic workflows.
- Establish AI agent usage guidelines, evaluation standards, governance practices, prompt libraries, and design quality safeguards.

### Design Systems and Change Management
- Lead change management for the Odyssey design system, including roadmaps, major releases, component updates, and usage guidelines.
- Drive adoption of design-system updates across Design and Engineering.
- Operationalize accessibility programs, including audits, localized guidelines, and continuous accessibility checks in design workflows.

### Program Enablement
- Deliver workshops, brown bags, Figma and AI deep dives, and hackathons for design and content teams.
- Create and maintain operational templates, workflow documentation, and centralized resources.
- Measure adoption, effectiveness, time savings, and business impact of AI agents and design tools; use feedback to improve processes.

## Requirements

- 4+ years of experience in Design Operations, Creative Operations, or Program Management within complex software or SaaS design organizations.
- Hands-on experience with AI design tools, generative AI, large language models, Model Context Protocols, custom Figma plug-ins, and agentic workflows.
- Experience rolling out operational initiatives, design systems, or accessibility standards across cross-functional teams.
- Understanding of collaboration among UX Designers, Content Designers, UX Researchers, and Design Systems Engineers throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Strong problem-solving, organization, documentation, communication, and change-management skills.
- Familiarity with Figma, FigJam, Jira, Confluence, and AI design tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenAI or Anthropic workflows.

## Compensation

- Annual base salary: **$118,000–$162,000 CAD**.
- Additional equity, bonus, and benefits may be available, including health, dental, vision insurance, RRSP matching, healthcare spending, telemedicine, and paid leave.

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