UX Team Lead for Experience & Access Platform

Pearson; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a UX Team Manager to lead a group of designers shaping how a multi-product learning platform connects, secures, and manages access across integrations and admin systems. You will translate strategy into hands-on execution, coaching designers, and partnering with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to optimize roadmaps.

You will guide design planning, ensure high-quality UX work, and balance short-term delivery with long-term platform goals, while advocating for accessible,

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in UX design with 3+ years leading designers.
• Direct experience with identity/access management, admin consoles, or platform configuration tools.
• Service design experience mapping multi-actor journeys across systems.
• Experience using AI-assisted design and prototyping tools.

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, while balancing hands-on design work 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 genuinely conflicting priorities, balancing short-term execution against long-term platform and experience goals.
• Partner closely 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 that support clarity and momentum across a technically complex, systems-level domain.
• Unblock teams by resolving ambiguity, clarifying scope, and navigating trade-offs, especially where technical constraints (auth protocols, permissions models, provisioning logic) shape what's possible.
• Reinforce design standards, accessibility, and design system adoption for platform-level patterns like admin consoles, permissions UI, and integration setup flows.

Skills

UX leadership

Design management

Identity access management

Service design

Job description

Pearson is seeking a UX Team Manager to lead a group of designers shaping how a multi-product learning platform connects, secures, and manages access across integrations and admin systems. You will translate strategy into hands-on execution, coaching designers, and partnering with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to optimize roadmaps.

You will guide design planning, ensure high-quality UX work, and balance short-term delivery with long-term platform goals, while advocating for accessible,