Team Manager, UX Designer

Pearson

3d • $150,000 - $175,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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 workstreams across a complex product area, develop designers through coaching and feedback, and ensure teams are focused on the highest‑impact work.
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 design can unlock human potential and AI should deepen learning, then this is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career. Because when learning flourishes, people do too.
Ready to make an Impact?

Requirements

• 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 workstreams 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

Responsibilities

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed