Experience Design: UX Team Lead (Hybrid/Remote)

Pearson; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a UX Team Manager to guide a team of designers across integrations, access management, and platform design systems. You will partner with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to translate vision into executable roadmaps while coaching designers to deliver high-impact work.

You will drive design planning, maintain quality standards, and ensure accessibility across admin consoles and integration flows in a complex, multi-product environment.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of professional experience in UX design, with 3+ years leading designers.
• Direct experience with identity/access management, admin/settings consoles, or platform configuration tools is a strong plus.
• Service design experience mapping multi-actor journeys across systems is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of UX designers through coaching, feedback, and career guidance.
• Define design strategy and quality standards for integrations, access management, and design system work.
• Own UX delivery across the platform and access-management product area, ensuring quality and consistency.
• Prioritize and sequence work across multiple teams with conflicting priorities.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to align roadmaps and success metrics.
• Run design planning, crits, and reviews to maintain momentum on a complex domain.
• Unblock teams by resolving ambiguity and navigating trade-offs, including auth protocols and permissions models.
• Reinforce design standards and accessibility for admin consoles and integration flows.

Skills

Team leadership

UX design leadership

Design strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Coaching & mentoring

Roadmapping

Job description

Pearson is seeking a UX Team Manager to guide a team of designers across integrations, access management, and platform design systems. You will partner with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to translate vision into executable roadmaps while coaching designers to deliver high-impact work.

You will drive design planning, maintain quality standards, and ensure accessibility across admin consoles and integration flows in a complex, multi-product environment.