Team Manager, UX Designer

Role Title : Team Manager, UX Designer

Description : This role aligns to UX Design Manager.

Location: Hoboken (Hybrid)

The Role 

We’re looking for a visionary UX Team Manager who will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of agentic learning experiences in higher education. As an inspiring leader and strategic design practitioner, you will guide a team of UX designers to deliver innovative solutions that transform how students learn, and educators teach. 

In this role, you’ll bridge strategic vision with hands-on execution, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Research to translate bold ideas into dynamic and personalized learning solutions. 

You will lead multiple workstreams across a complex product area, develop designers through coaching and feedback, and ensure teams are focused on the highest‑impact work.  

What You'll Own 

As a UX Team Manager, you will be accountable for both strategic leadership and delivery outcomes across multiple workstreams. You’ll guide and grow a team of designers while ensuring UX work is well‑prioritized, high quality, and tightly aligned with product strategy. Partnering closely with Product and Engineering leadership, you’ll help translate vision into execution, remove obstacles, and create the conditions for designers to do their best work. 

• Lead and develop a team of UX designers through coaching, feedback, and career guidance 

• Own UX delivery across a product area, ensuring quality, consistency, and predictability 

• Prioritize and sequence work to balance short‑term execution and long‑term experience goals 

• Partner closely with product and engineering to align roadmaps, priorities, and success metrics 

• Run design planning, critique, and review rituals that support clarity and momentum 

• Unblock teams by resolving ambiguity, clarifying scope, and navigating trade‑offs 

• Reinforce design standards, accessibility, and design system adoption 

About You 

You are an experienced UX leader who enjoys developing people