UX Design Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a UX Design Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Build successful experiences that are tailor-made for people in specific locales;
- Through it all, be available, be patient, have empathy for others, and always think of business needs as well as the user’s experience;
- Lead a talented team and create an environment that fosters creativity and engagement;
- Ensure a systemic design aesthetic that scales across regions and languages;
- Ability to influence and solicit buy-in with stakeholders and business leadership;
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams as well as the greater UX team throughout the design process;
- Guide your team to achieve high-quality, holistic, cross-platform, on-brand experiences that aligns with company strategy;
- Lead regular design reviews, critiques, and ideation sessions for team members;
- Create clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, and apply systems thinking to simplify complex feature sets into simple, intuitive product experiences;
- Work with design leadership to shape teams’ culture, processes, and tools to improve design productivity and efficiency;
- Play a hybrid role of manager and individual contributor on a product team;
- Advocate for human-centered design and ensure we’re solving the right problems;
- Build healthy and collaborative relationships with design, product, and engineering leadership to shape strategy;
- Recruit, hire, and onboard new designers;
- Manage a team of product designers through coaching, and radically candid feedback to grow their careers.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science or related field;
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English;
- Expert level skills in Adobe CS, Sketch and other associated design tools;
- International eCommerce experience;
- Proven ability to build positive, collaborative relationships across multi-functional teams;
- Experience leading successful teams.