Remote UX Team Manager, Experience Design

Pearson; Hoboken, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a UX Team Manager in Hoboken to lead multiple workstreams across integrations, access management, and platform design systems. You will guide a team of designers, set design strategy, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to shape roadmaps and outcomes.

You will drive high-impact UX work in a complex ecosystem, ensuring quality, consistency, and a strong focus on user-centered design.

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.
• Service design experience mapping multi-actor journeys and touchpoints across systems.
• Experience using AI-assisted design tools to enhance workflows and adapt to AI-driven capabilities.
• Strong end-to-end UX design background across complex, multi-surface products, including legacy systems.
• Proven ability to manage priorities across multiple workstreams with conflicting demands.
• Confidence making decisions under ambiguity and communicating trade-offs clearly.
• Collaborativе leadership across product, engineering, security, and design.
• Ability to switch between hands-on design guidance and higher-level planning.

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, balancing hands-on design with people management
• Own UX delivery across the platform and access-management area, ensuring quality and consistency
• Prioritize and sequence work across multiple teams with conflicting priorities while balancing long-term goals
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to align roadmaps and success metrics
• Run design planning, crit, and review rituals to maintain clarity and momentum in a complex domain
• Unblock teams by resolving ambiguity, clarifying scope, and navigating trade-offs
• Reinforce design standards, accessibility, and design system adoption for admin consoles and permissions UI

Skills

UX Design

Team Leadership

Design Strategy

Cross-functional Collaboration

Design Systems

Accessibility

AI-assisted Design

End-to-End UX

Decision Making

Tools

AI Design Tools

Job description

Pearson is seeking a UX Team Manager in Hoboken to lead multiple workstreams across integrations, access management, and platform design systems. You will guide a team of designers, set design strategy, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to shape roadmaps and outcomes.

You will drive high-impact UX work in a complex ecosystem, ensuring quality, consistency, and a strong focus on user-centered design.