UX Team Manager, Experience Design & Platform Access

Pearson; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a UX Team Manager to guide a group of designers across integrations, access management, and platform design systems within a multi-product learning ecosystem. You’ll bridge strategy with hands-on execution, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to shape roadmaps and ensure UX constraints are respected.

You’ll mentor designers, raise design standards, and drive outcomes across complex systems, with a focus on accessibility and scalable patterns for admin

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of professional UX design experience
• 3+ years leading designers
• Experience with identity/access management or admin consoles
• Service design experience mapping multi-actor journeys
• Experience using AI-assisted design tools
• End-to-end UX across complex systems
• Ability to prioritize across conflicting demands
• Communicate trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences

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
• Prioritize and sequence work across multiple teams with conflicting priorities
• Align roadmaps with Product, Engineering, and Architecture leadership
• Run design planning, crit, and review rituals to maintain momentum
• Unblock teams by clarifying scope and navigating trade-offs
• Reinforce design standards and accessibility for admin consoles and integration flows

Skills

UX leadership

Team management

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

User research

Mentoring

Communication

Identity/access familiarity

Tools

Prototyping tools

Design systems

AI-assisted design tools

Job description

Pearson is seeking a UX Team Manager to guide a group of designers across integrations, access management, and platform design systems within a multi-product learning ecosystem. You’ll bridge strategy with hands-on execution, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to shape roadmaps and ensure UX constraints are respected.

You’ll mentor designers, raise design standards, and drive outcomes across complex systems, with a focus on accessibility and scalable patterns for admin