Team Manager, UX Designer

About This Role

Lead and mentor a team of UX designers to shape the future of agentic learning experiences in higher education. This role involves bridging strategic vision with hands-on execution, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Research to deliver innovative and personalized learning solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of UX designers through coaching, feedback, and career guidance
• Own UX delivery across a product area, ensuring quality, consistency, and predictability
• Prioritize and sequence work to balance short‑term execution and long‑term experience goals
• Partner closely with product and engineering to align roadmaps, priorities, and success metrics
• Run design planning, critique, and review rituals that support clarity and momentum
• Unblock teams by resolving ambiguity, clarifying scope, and navigating trade‑offs
• Reinforce design standards, accessibility, and design system adoption

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in UX design
• 3+ years leading designers
• Experience designing products that leverage agentic AI
• Experience designing with AI prototyping tools to enhance workflows
• Strong foundation in end‑to‑end UX design across complex, multi‑surface products
• Proven experience managing priorities across multiple workstreams and stakeholders
• Confidence making decisions under ambiguity and communicating trade‑offs clearly
• Collaborative leadership style that builds trust across product, engineering, and design
• Ability to switch between hands‑on design guidance and higher‑level planning as needed

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of professional experience in UX design, with 3+ years leading designers

Skills

* Required skills