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UX Design Manager
Location
Massachusetts
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$140K - $160K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
UX Design Manager
Veracross
• Establish the design vision, principles, and standards that guide all UI/UX work across the company. • Define how UX integrates with product and engineering — from discovery through delivery — and codify the rituals, artifacts, and decision rights that make it work. • Lead UX design across multiple Veracross product areas, including SIS, Admissions, Academics, Communications, Fundraising, and FinTech. • Work within and evolve our design systems, ensuring consistency across legacy interfaces while contributing to modern, scalable design patterns. • Conduct user research and usability testing to deeply understand the needs of diverse personas—teachers, families, administrators, and students. • Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and high-fidelity designs that communicate clear, intuitive solutions for complex workflows. • Collaborate closely with product managers and engineering teams, translating requirements into elegant, feasible designs that scale across the platform. • Partner with engineering to ensure designs are implemented accurately across Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and legacy front-end frameworks. • Use AI-assisted design tools to accelerate exploration, generate variations, and support documentation. • Advocate for UX best practices, accessibility standards, and user-centered decision-making across the organization. • Contribute to design system governance, helping define components, patterns, and guidelines used across all Veracross products. • Document UX patterns, research insights, and design rationale, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams. • Support cross-product integrations, ensuring cohesive experiences across the entire Veracross platform. • Manage, mentor, and develop UX designers across our product portfolio.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of professional UX or product design experience, ideally in SaaS or complex workflow-driven products. 1-2 years or managing or leading designers
- Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered design, problem-solving, and clear interaction design thinking.
- Experience working within both modern and legacy design systems, with the ability to improve and extend them thoughtfully.
- Proficiency with modern design tools (Figma preferred) and comfort using AI-assisted design workflows.
- Ability to conduct user research, usability testing, and synthesize insights into actionable design recommendations.
- Strong understanding of UX principles, interaction design, information architecture, and accessibility standards.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present design decisions clearly to designers, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams and understanding technical constraints across front-end frameworks.
- Ability to work effectively in a remote, mostly asynchronous environment.
- A flexible, curious, and collaborative mindset.
- Authorized to work in the United States
- Nice to Haves**
- Experience designing for education technology, student information systems, or multi-persona platforms.
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails or Vue.js environments and how design decisions translate into implementation.
- Experience modernizing legacy interfaces or migrating products to new design systems.
- Background in service design, workflow mapping, or complex multi-system environments.
- Experience contributing to or managing a design system at scale.
- Comfort facilitating workshops, design critiques, or cross-functional alignment sessions.
- Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.
Benefits
- 3 weeks of vacation per year
- 14 paid holidays per year (including the week off between Christmas and New Year's Eve)
- 56 Hours of paid sick leave annually
- Top tier benefits -
- Medical, Dental & Vision (Blue Cross Blue Shield & EyeMed)
- Veracross LLC Fidelity 401(k) Plan - Managed by Sentinel Benefits
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