Program Design Manager

Are you Ready to Produce Greatness?

Program Design Manager

At E.L. Productions Ltd. (ELP), we have partnered with major Canadian Brands to produce greatness for over 30 years. Canadas premier event producers, we work with industry leaders and innovators to imagine, develop, and deliver exceptional experiences both virtual, live and beyond. We build experiences that make connections, shift thinking and inspire action.

We are currently looking for a Program Design Manager to join our expanding team.

Does this sound like you?

• I thrive at the intersection of creativity and organization, bringing structure to ideas and helping teams turn vision into reality.
• I naturally connect people, priorities, and information, ensuring everyone stays aligned and moving toward the same goal.
• I can see the big picture while keeping a close eye on timelines, dependencies, budgets, and details that drive successful execution.
• I enjoy bringing clarity to complexity, identifying gaps, resolving roadblocks, and keeping projects moving forward.
• I understand that great experiences don't happen by accident. They are the result of thoughtful planning, collaboration, and disciplined execution.
• I can take multiple ideas, perspectives, and inputs and shape them into compelling proposals that clearly communicate a vision and inspire confidence.

About The Role

The Program Design Manager is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end event design process, ensuring programs are aligned to client objectives, creative vision, attendee outcomes, and budget from intake and planning, through proposal development and handover.

This role serves as the connective tissue between creative, sourcing, content, and program teams, bringing structure, clarity, and momentum to the event design process. By coordinating timelines, inputs, dependencies, and decision-making, the Program Design Manager ensures ideas are transformed into cohesive, executable plans and compelling proposals that can be confidently sold, approved, and delivered.

Working closely with key stakeholders, this role helps ensure every design decision supports the overall experience, remains aligned to strategic objectives, and contributes to proposals that are innovative, compelling, and achievable.

As our Program Design Manager, you will:

• Manage the intake and planning process for programs requiring design support, ensuring all objectives, scope, budget, and timelines are clearly defined.
• Manage timelines, milestones, dependencies, and risks across creative, sourcing, content, and program workstreams.
• Coordinate design decisions to ensure alignment with client objectives, creative vision, budget parameters, and operational realities.
• Partner with client teams to gather feedback, validate direction, and maintain alignment throughout the design process.
• Manage the development of creative proposals from concept through final delivery, ensuring all inputs are coordinated and complete.
• Bring together creative, sourcing, and content inputs to create compelling proposals that balance innovation, feasibility, and client objectives.
• Ensure proposals clearly communicate experience design, intended attendee outcomes, execution approach, and differentiation.
• Drive alignment across teams to avoid rework, late-stage changes, and downstream execution challenges.
• Coordinate communication and content development to ensure consistency of messaging across all program deliverables.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by capturing learnings, refining processes, and developing tools that strengthen design delivery.

Are you the one we are looking for?

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Skills/Strengths

• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple timelines, dependencies, stakeholders, and deliverables simultaneously.
• Strong proposal development and storytelling skills with the ability to translate ideas into clear, compelling recommendations.
• Creative fluency with the ability to understand, challenge, and align design concepts and experiential ideas.
• Exceptional communication and coordination skills with the ability to keep teams informed, aligned, and moving forward.
• Strong organizational skills with a structured, process-driven approach to managing complex projects.
• High attention to detail and a commitment to quality, accuracy, and completeness.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across creative, content, sourcing, and production teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify risks, gaps, and opportunities early.

Education/Experience

• 5+ years of experience in event production, experiential marketing, program design, agency, or related environments.
• Proven experience managing complex projects involving multiple workstreams, contributors, and deadlines.
• Experience developing or coordinating creative proposals, presentations, pitch materials, or strategic recommendations.
• Strong understanding of event design, attendee experience, experiential elements, and program flow.
• Experience managing budgets or ensuring project alignment to budget constraints.
• Experience working closely with creative, content, and production teams.

What is it like to work at ELP?

Our Core Values

Our companys success stems from our unwavering commitment to the core values shared by every member of our incredibly talented team.

To be successful in our organization, you will fostertrust, grow yourknowledge, bethoughtfulin your actions and words,and communicate with clarity in a funand rewarding role.

Visionary

We think bigger about how to produce greatness from strategy and process to production and innovation. We believe experiences ignite brands and people.

Relatable

We are real people working to do extraordinary things. Our friendly, relatable, empathetic, and inspiring people build the relationships that help everyone succeed.

Imaginative

We break barriers, expand ideas, and use innovative brainstorming tactics to create original approaches and experiences designed to move audiences and resonate with them at an emotional level.

Meticulous

We execute what we imagine, bringing every detail to life.

If you are ready to Produce Greatness within an expert team that makes the entire production process easy, impactful, and seamless, we encourage you to apply today! Because together, we deepen connections, shift thinking, and inspire action.

Additional details:

• There is 1 Full-time position currently available.
• Generative AI is used to help confirm that applicants meet minimum requirements through screening questions; all qualified resumes are reviewed by a Human Resources professional.