Manager, UX

Job Description:

  • Manage and mentor a team of product designers, providing regular feedback, career coaching, and support for their professional growth
  • Provide hands-on strategic support to designers on your team — stepping in to help them navigate complexity, communicate with stakeholders, and develop their design thinking
  • Foster a team culture of craft, curiosity, and psychological safety — where designers feel empowered to take creative risks and learn from outcomes
  • Oversee workload distribution and resourcing across your team, ensuring designers have clear priorities and appropriate scope
  • Partner with the Senior UX Manager to co-lead the broader UX team, contributing to shared direction, team health, and org-level UX initiatives
  • Establish and communicate design direction for your team's product areas, ensuring consistency and quality across interconnected user journeys
  • Lead regular design reviews and critiques that elevate the work and build shared standards across the team
  • Contribute to the development of shared design principles and quality criteria that can scale across a growing product portfolio
  • Partner closely with Engineering and Product leaders to develop a shared understanding of your vertical's goals and ensure your team's work connects to the broader product strategy
  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with Product, Engineering, Customer Experience, and Marketing leadership to align design work with organizational goals
  • Advocate for user-centered thinking at the leadership level, communicating the strategic value and business impact of UX investment
  • Partner with UX Research and Data teams to ensure design decisions across your team are grounded in evidence and validated through appropriate methods
  • Contribute to the evolution of the ActBlue Design System to meet the needs of a growing product portfolio and ensure consistent implementation across teams
  • Contribute to the development of shared UX processes, tooling, and ways of working that benefit the broader design organization

Requirements:

  • 6–8+ years of UX experience, including prior experience managing a team or coaching and mentoring other designers
  • Experience leading end-to-end product delivery — from discovery and ideation through to high-fidelity execution — including MVPs and complex product features
  • Proven ability to manage and coach designers in a cross-functional environment, with a track record of supporting career growth and delivering high-quality work
  • Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams across product, engineering, and other functions
  • A user-first approach to design grounded in research and data, with experience leading discovery, ideation, and user research sessions and connecting insights to product decisions
  • Strong storytelling and communication skills, with experience presenting to and influencing audiences at multiple levels of an organization
  • Experience working within or contributing to a shared design system
  • A commitment to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment — not just welcoming, but actively centering and amplifying perspectives and backgrounds different from your own

Benefits:

  • Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
  • Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
  • Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
  • Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
  • Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
  • A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
  • Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
  • Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times
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