What You'll Do
The User Experience Manager will lead, coach, and develop a team including UX research and design leads, establishing clear roles, goals, and delivery expectations. They will partner with analytics and product management teams to translate customer and business needs into team priorities, allocate resources, and remove delivery barriers. The manager will oversee the UX Lead Systems & Experience, who leads the design-system roadmap and day-to-day design-system work, providing strategic direction, reviewing progress, and holding the lead accountable for consistent, accessible, and high-performing user interfaces.
Key Responsibilities
Coach and develop the design team; set annual goals and individual development plans, provide regular feedback, conduct performance evaluations, and address performance gaps. Manage team capacity, assignments, and resources to balance priorities and support timely delivery.
Set direction for UX research lead, delegate ownership with clear expectations, and hold team members accountable for delivery and quality. Oversee research priorities, remove barriers, and ensure findings inform accessible, user-centered design decisions.
Design Systems Ownership
Provide strategic oversight of the McGraw Hill design system through the UX Lead, Systems & Experience, who leads its definition, design, maintenance, and scaling. Set priorities, review the roadmap and progress, and ensure the lead has the resources and cross-team support needed to deliver consistent, accessible web experiences.
Hold the UX Lead Systems & Experience accountable for establishing, documenting, and maintaining design standards that prioritize accessibility (WCAG 2.2 compliance) and usability. Review quality and adoption, resolve escalated issues, and support consistent application across digital products.
Strategic UX/UI Ownership
Set UX/UI priorities, allocate team capacity and resources, and hold design leads accountable for delivering solutions on time, within budget, and in alignment with business and accessibility goals.
Agile UX Strategy
Define and implement UX strategies within an agile framework, ensuring adaptability and quick response to evolving user needs and accessibility requirements.
Cross-Team Collaboration
Build alignment across design, development, and business teams; clarify responsibilities, resolve competing priorities, and support the UX Lead Systems & Experience in driving design-system adoption and accessibility best practices across web and ecommerce initiatives.
What You Bring
BA/BFA degree in Design (e.g., interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), HCI, CS, or a related field or equivalent practical experience
Hands-on UX/UI experience with the ability to guide design decisions, delegate execution, and oversee design-system delivery through the UX Lead Systems & Experience
Demonstrated experience leading and developing UX teams, including coaching, setting goals, providing feedback, managing performance, and allocating resources
A strong portfolio of projects demonstrating varied experience across digital, including web and mobile. Experience within ecommerce and/or ed tech a plus.
Expertise in standard UX software such as Figma, Sketch, InVision, Storybook. Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Experience Manager.
Proficient in web accessibility standards and experience with optimizing experiences for usability and accessibility.
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and milestones efficiently. Experience within an Agile environment is a plus.
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate across functional areas, including technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience leading research priorities and leveraging findings and metrics to inform projects and priorities.
Project Management and ticketing tools (example: Asana, Jira)
Analytics tools (example: Adobe Analytics)
Why work for us?
The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively building experiences that will help shape the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.
The pay range for this position is between $114,000 - $150,000 annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.
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