UX Design Manager

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $140k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Veracross

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2000

📚 Education

Education • Software

Veracross is a comprehensive school management platform designed for private and independent K-12 schools. It offers a range of modules including academics, admissions, enrollment, student health, behavior, tuition management, and more, all integrated into a single, web-based solution. Veracross helps schools transform data discrepancies into actionable insights and streamline operations through connected workflows. It serves various types of schools such as private K-12, boarding, international, and parochial schools. By providing tools that simplify academic and administrative processes, Veracross aims to create more connected, unified school communities.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 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