Manager, UX Development

Elekta; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days

Holiday Purchase Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Employer Pension Contribution

Cycle to work scheme

Life Assurance

Onsite restaurant

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice

Job summary

Elekta is seeking a Manager, UX Development to lead the global UX Development team, manage front-end efforts for core software products, and own the Design System and ECL. Based in Crawley, the role drives UX excellence across product lines and collaborates with product and engineering leaders.

You will mentor teams, evangelise user-centred design, and ensure high-quality, timely delivery while staying abreast of regulatory and tech developments.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, HCI, or similar field
• 8+ years’ experience as a Senior/Lead UX Developer in complex products/services
• Experience managing a UX/Front-end Development team
• Experience developing and managing a component library or design system
• Knowledge of regulatory constraints in medical devices (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Line-manage a team of UX Developers, including hiring, performance management and career development
• Prioritise resourcing to maximise product UX and development efficiency
• Develop and maintain stakeholder networks across Product and Engineering
• Advocate user-centred design and present measurable business impact case studies
• Collaborate with UX Strategy & Design to align on design system adoption
• Ensure quality, on-time delivery of front-end work across product lines
• Oversee UI Monorepo, CI/CD, testing, internationalisation and accessibility
• Grow front-end engineering practices and evangelise UX/UI standards
• Stay current with medical devices regulations and front-end tech trends

Skills

Influential leadership

Storytelling

Mentoring UX/Development

Excellent communication

Time-management

Fluent English

Education

Master’s degree in computer science or related

8+ years as Senior/Lead UX Developer

Tools

Elekta Design System

Elekta Component Library (ECL)

UI Monorepo tooling

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What You’ll Do At Elekta:

The Manager, UX Development role leads Elekta’s UX Development team globally and oversees front-end development activities for Elekta’s software products, ensuring that they are effective, efficient, satisfying and safe to use. This encompasses building and supporting the Elekta Design System via the UI Monorepo and the Elekta Component Library (ECL), along with support of other product technologies, to ensure products are consistent and joined up. This role is based in Crawley.

Responsibilities:

• Line-manage a team of individual UX Developers, responsible for hiring, performance management, career development, and motivating the team towards excellent performance
• Understand Elekta’s Products and their contexts, to be able to prioritise the resourcing of their team to the most important products/ projects, creating the greatest possible UX/ product quality, development efficiency and measurable business impact
• Develop and maintain a network of Elekta stakeholders; in particular, leaders in the Product and Engineering divisions. Understand the needs of these stakeholders, agree with them the scope of work, and ensure they are kept up to date with progress
• Support the Head of UX&D in evangelising the benefits of User-Centred Design across the Elekta business, including collating and communicating a set of compelling case studies where UCD has made a measurable business impact
• Collaborate closely with the rest of the UX&D MT, ensuring that the UX&D team speaks and acts as one team, shares resources, and seeks to improve ways of working
• Accountable for the quality of work coming from their team, ensuring it is excellent, consistent and delivered on time and to promises
• Maintain a good understanding of the other UX&D domains (UX Research, Industrial Design, UX Strategy & Design), to be able to ‘sell’ the wider team’s skills and contributions
• Mentor and coach colleagues, within and outside the UX&D team, on best practice in UX/UI/Front-end Development
• Oversee front-end development and support activities on the most important software Products/Product Lines
• Lead the development of, and act as owner/ authority for, Elekta’s Design System and the Elekta Component Library (ECL). Evangelise the benefits of the Design System/ Component Library across Elekta and ensure its widest possible adoption. Work closely with members of the UX Strategy & Design team to maintain the Design System.
• Oversee the development and adoption of the UI Monorepo and its tools, to ensure for fast product development and delivery (including Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), pipelines, testing, Internationalisation, Accessibility, etc.)
• Measure the impact of the Design System, Component Library and UI Monorepo on the Elekta Engineering organisation – e.g. in making development of new products faster/ more efficient/ better quality
• Lead a process of collecting and integrating user feedback on the Design System, Component Library and UI Monorepo to ensure continued improvements for its users, the product developers
• Evangelise UX/ User-Centred Design to the Elekta Engineering organisation. Define and support relevant awareness and training activities
• Mature the front-end engineering teams at Elekta through best UX/ UI design practice
• Define best practice for the development, testing, security, and delivery of front-end software
• Keep up with the state-of-the-art in the regulated medical devices and front-end technologies and experiences.

The right stuff:

• A track record of influential leadership, management of senior stakeholders and driving cross-functional agreement on user-centred design.
• Skilled storyteller in user-centered design and development, able to present complex information in a digestible format at all levels of the business
• Experience guiding and mentoring UX/ Development professionals across functions to drive best practice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate in a cross-functional team
• Excellent time-management and multi-tasking ability in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

What you bring:

• We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every requirement—your unique skills and experiences might be exactly what we're looking for!
• Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, human-computer interaction, or a similar relevant field
• Comprehensive knowledge base acquired from 8+ years’ experience as a (Senior/ Lead) UX Developer in a domain of complex products and services
• 2+ years’ experience in managing a UX/ Front-end Development team, including all people management responsibilities
• Significant experience in the development of front-end software and/or business web applications or mobile applications.
• Significant experience in developing and managing a component library or design system for an organization.
• An understanding and experience of working within regulatory constraints, ideally in the field of medical devices
• A track record of taking responsibility for the delivery of large, complex projects, end-to‑end
• A track record of case studies (personal or from a managed team) where user-centered design and development has had a significant and measurable business impact
• Good understanding of Agile principles and Agile product development practices (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• Strong analytical capability and high attention to detail.
• Must be fluent in the English language (reading, speaking, writing and comprehension).

What you’ll get:

• Work Pattern (you are required to work from the Crawley HQ 4 days a week with 1-day WFH)
• Up to 25 paid vacation days (plus bank holidays)
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Attractive Employer Pension Contribution Package
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance
• Onsite subsidized restaurant, offering budget-friendly dining
• Love electric (Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme)

This is an office based role (5 days a week from our Crawley Hub )

We are an equal opportunity employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.