Team Manager, UX Designer

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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 work streams 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 work streams. 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 just as much as delivering great products. You bring judgment, clarity, and calm to complex problem spaces, and you're energized by helping teams do their best work.
You bring:
7-10+ years of professional experience in UX design, with 3+ years leading designers
Experience designing products that leverage agentic AI as well as designing with AI prototyping tools to enhance workflows
A strong foundation in end‑to‑end UX design across complex, multi‑surface products
Proven experience managing priorities across multiple work streams and stakeholders
Confidence making decisions under ambiguity and communicating trade‑offs clearly
A collaborative leadership style that builds trust across product, engineering, and design
The ability to switch between hands‑on design guidance and higher‑level planning as needed
What You'll Get
Pearson is on a mission to build a direct, lifelong relationship with millions of learners around the world.  As the world's leading learning company, with 18,000+ employees across 70 countries, we reach learners at critical moments of growth, through content, assessment, and digital experiences that shape education, careers, and opportunity at a global scale.
Now, Higher Education is entering its next chapter.  We're in the midst of a deep digital and AI transformation...reimagining learning as agentic, adaptive, and human-centered. Our teams are designing intelligent learning products that don't just deliver information, but actively coach, challenge, and partner with learners, grounded in Socratic principles, critical thinking, and pedagogical rigor.
This is a rare moment to shape the future of learning. Designers at Pearson are helping define how AI shows up in education with intention, ethics, and craft. We are creating experiences that evolve alongside tomorrow's students, instructors, and institutions. From agentic study companions to AI-powered course creation tools, we're building systems that amplify curiosity, agency, and impact at global scale.
If you believe great…