Manager, Marketing Information Architecture & User Experience

University of Miami; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Miami seeks a Manager of Marketing Information Architecture & User Experience to own how users find information across UHealth’s digital properties. You will run the enterprise UX research program end-to-end and translate findings into information architecture, taxonomy, and navigation across providers, services, and locations.

You will govern IA frameworks, content models, and site structures in Sitecore XM Cloud, while guiding both internal specialists and external partners.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in UX research or IA with ownership of both research and architecture.
• Experience migrating large websites or enterprise CMS with taxonomy and redirects.
• Ability to run a research program end-to-end, including recruitment.
• Proven ability to resolve contested design decisions with evidence.
• Experience directing external agency resources and managing scope.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise UX research program from study design to synthesis.
• Define IA frameworks across all digital properties and site taxonomy.
• Lead migration IA workstreams, mapping content and redirects.
• Oversee content modeling, page types, and governance documentation.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners as product owner.

Skills

UX research

Information architecture

Content strategy

Large-scale migration

Research program

Taxonomy design

URL structures

Structured data

AI tooling

Prototype testing

User testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in UX/HCI

Tools

UserTesting

dScout

Optimal Workshop

Treejack

Sitecore XM Cloud

Job description

The Department of Marketing Technology & Analytics is currently seeking a full-time Manager, Marketing Information Architecture & User Experience.

SUMMARY

Owns how patients, students, fans, and donors find what they need across UHealth's digital properties, and owns the evidence that proves it works. Runs the enterprise user research program end to end, from platform and panel management through study design and synthesis, and translates findings into information architecture: taxonomy, navigation, content models, page types, and URL governance. Increasingly the audience is also a machine. This role structures content so AI answer engines and AI-assisted navigation can parse and surface UHealth’s providers, services, and locations accurately, and treats answer engine visibility as an architecture problem rather than a marketing tactic. Reports to the AVP of Marketing Technology and Analytics on an interim basis, and directs both internal specialists and implementation partner resources.

RESEARCH & EVIDENCE

Own the enterprise UX research program end to end: study design, participant recruitment, panel management, incentives, synthesis, and a searchable research repository the department can draw on. Own the research platform relationship: license utilization, contract terms, recruitment and incentive costs, and the build/buy decision on adjacent tooling; evaluate research vendors on demonstrated capability rather than on sales narrative. Run generative and evaluative studies: card sorting, tree testing, first-click testing, moderated and unmoderated usability, prototype testing, and live A/B and multivariate testing on in-market pages. Set the evidence standard for contested design decisions. When physicians, deans, or division heads hold strong views on site structure, resolve them with usability data and defensible findings rather than preference. Define and report experience KPIs: task success, findability, time to appointment, navigation abandonment, and search exit rate.

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

Define and govern IA frameworks across all digital properties: taxonomies, navigation systems, content hierarchies, URL structures, and labeling conventions. Lead content modeling and page type architecture in Sitecore XM Cloud: component hierarchy, template definitions, field naming, and governance documentation serving UHealth, the Academy, Athletics, and Development. Own the migration IA workstream: legacy content inventory, content mapping, URL and redirect strategy, and phased migration sequencing. Own the taxonomy beneath the provider record: specialty, sub‑specialty, condition, procedure, and location vocabularies that resolve to a single authoritative provider profile. Maintain governance artifacts: naming conventions, decision logs, sitemaps, redirect logs, and navigation models. AI & DISCOVERY Structure content for machine consumption: schema.org markup, structured data, and content models that let AI answer engines resolve a provider, condition, or location correctly. Own answer engine optimization at the architecture layer, in partnership with the AEO Lab and SEO, so IA decisions improve visibility in AI‑generated answers and not only in classic search results. Define and evaluate AI‑assisted navigation and enterprise site search behavior, including how AI search surfaces and ranks clinical content, and run structured bake‑offs between internal and agency concepts. Apply AI tooling to the IA work itself: content inventory classification, taxonomy gap analysis, redirect mapping, and research synthesis, with human validation of every output. Establish guardrails for AI‑surfaced clinical content: accuracy, currency, and the compliance boundary on what may be represented to patients.

PARTNER, STAKEHOLDER & TEAM LEADERSHIP

Direct implementation partner and agency resources on IA, research, and content workstreams: set deliverables, scope boundaries, and acceptance criteria, and prevent duplicate assignment across internal and partner staff. Own executive design review and change management: sequence validation from working review to steering committee to division heads, and secure sign‑off before build rather than after it. Manage IA specialists and contractors: assign work, review deliverables, and hold quality against migration‑critical timelines. Operate as product owner for the experience layer: maintain a prioritized backlog and make trade‑off decisions with documented rationale. This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all‑inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years in UX research, information architecture, or content strategy, with demonstrated ownership of both research and architecture rather than one in service of the other
• Experience owning IA on a large‑scale website migration or enterprise CMS implementation: content modeling, taxonomy design, and redirect governance
• Demonstrated ability to run a research program independently, from study design through synthesis, including participant recruitment and panel logistics
• Proven record of resolving contested design decisions with evidence in an environment of competing stakeholder authority
• Experience directing external agency or implementation partner resources: scope control, deliverable definition, and quality accountability
• Working knowledge of how taxonomy, URL structure, metadata, and structured data affect both traditional search and AI answer engine visibility
• A hands‑on practitioner, not a manager of people who use the tools. Works daily in research and user testing platforms, A/B and multivariate testing, wireframing and prototyping, taxonomy and journey mapping, analytics, and crawl and audit tools
• An early adopter of AI with a working practice to show. Uses AI routinely for research synthesis, content classification, taxonomy analysis, and prototyping, and can speak candidly to where it fails

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with AI search or answer engine visibility: schema strategy, structured data, or platforms such as Coveo or Google Vetex
• Proficiency with research and IA platforms such as UserTesting, dScout, Optimal Workshop, or Treejack, including the ability to evaluate them commercially
• IAAP accessibility certification (CPACC or WAS), or demonstrable WCAG 2.1 AA fluency
• Academic medical center or health system background, with provider data or clinical taxonomy exposure

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth‑University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university‑based health system, provides leading‑edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub‑specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Staff

The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System ("UHealth") have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation. The University comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 350 majors and programs. Visit welcome.miami.edu/about-um to learn more about our points of pride. The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019. The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022. With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.