UX Design Lead - Platform & Access Experience

Pearson; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a UX Team Manager in Hoboken (hybrid) to lead a team of designers across integrations, access management, and platform design systems, guiding strategy and delivery. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and Architecture to align roadmaps, coach designers, and ensure high-quality experiences across multi-actor journeys, including admin consoles and SSO-related flows.

This leadership role at Pearson shapes the future of learning through AI-enabled experiences and

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of professional experience in UX design, with 3+ years leading designers.
• Direct experience with at least one of: identity/access management, admin/settings consoles, B2B integration setup flows, or platform configuration tools.
• Service design experience mapping multi-actor journeys and touchpoints across systems (end users, admins, and third-party integrations).
• Experience using AI-assisted design and prototyping tools to enhance workflows and AI-driven or agentic capabilities.
• End-to-end UX design across complex, multi-surface products, including modern and legacy systems.
• Proven experience prioritizing across multiple workstreams and stakeholders with conflicting demands, making defensible calls under ambiguity.
• Ability to communicate trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• A collaborative leadership style that builds trust across product, engineering, security, and design.
• Switch between hands-on design guidance and higher-level planning as a coach and a player.

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 product area, ensuring quality, consistency, and predictability.
• Prioritize and sequence work across multiple teams with conflicting priorities, balancing short-term execution with long-term goals.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to align roadmaps, priorities, and success metrics for integration and access-control initiatives.
• Run design planning, crit, and review rituals to support clarity and momentum in a technically complex domain.
• Unblock teams by resolving ambiguity, clarifying scope, and navigating trade-offs related to technical constraints.
• Reinforce design standards, accessibility, and design system adoption for admin consoles and permissions UI.

Skills

UX design leadership

Team management

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

Pearson is seeking a UX Team Manager in Hoboken (hybrid) to lead a team of designers across integrations, access management, and platform design systems, guiding strategy and delivery. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and Architecture to align roadmaps, coach designers, and ensure high-quality experiences across multi-actor journeys, including admin consoles and SSO-related flows.

This leadership role at Pearson shapes the future of learning through AI-enabled experiences and