Manager, UX

ActBlue

. Manage and mentor a team of product designers, providing regular feedback, career coaching, and support for their professional growth .

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $162,027 - $195,915 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage and mentor a team of product designers, providing regular feedback, career coaching, and support for their professional growth
Provide hands-on strategic support to designers on your team — stepping in to help them navigate complexity, communicate with stakeholders, and develop their design thinking
Foster a team culture of craft, curiosity, and psychological safety — where designers feel empowered to take creative risks and learn from outcomes
Oversee workload distribution and resourcing across your team, ensuring designers have clear priorities and appropriate scope
Partner with the Senior UX Manager to co-lead the broader UX team, contributing to shared direction, team health, and org-level UX initiatives
Establish and communicate design direction for your team's product areas, ensuring consistency and quality across interconnected user journeys
Lead regular design reviews and critiques that elevate the work and build shared standards across the team
Contribute to the development of shared design principles and quality criteria that can scale across a growing product portfolio
Partner closely with Engineering and Product leaders to develop a shared understanding of your vertical's goals and ensure your team's work connects to the broader product strategy
Build and maintain strong working relationships with Product, Engineering, Customer Experience, and Marketing leadership to align design work with organizational goals
Advocate for user-centered thinking at the leadership level, communicating the strategic value and business impact of UX investment
Partner with UX Research and Data teams to ensure design decisions across your team are grounded in evidence and validated through appropriate methods
Contribute to the evolution of the ActBlue Design System to meet the needs of a growing product portfolio and ensure consistent implementation across teams
Contribute to the development of shared UX processes, tooling, and ways of working that benefit the broader design organization

Requirements

What you’ll need

6–8+ years of UX experience, including prior experience managing a team or coaching and mentoring other designers
Experience leading end-to-end product delivery — from discovery and ideation through to high-fidelity execution — including MVPs and complex product features
Proven ability to manage and coach designers in a cross-functional environment, with a track record of supporting career growth and delivering high-quality work
Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams across product, engineering, and other functions
A user-first approach to design grounded in research and data, with experience leading discovery, ideation, and user research sessions and connecting insights to product decisions
Strong storytelling and communication skills, with experience presenting to and influencing audiences at multiple levels of an organization
Experience working within or contributing to a shared design system
A commitment to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment — not just welcoming, but actively centering and amplifying perspectives and backgrounds different from your own

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times

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Hard Skills & Tools

UX designproduct deliverydesign thinkinguser researchhigh-fidelity executionMVP developmentdesign systemdesign principlesUX processesdata-driven design

Soft Skills

mentoringcoachingcommunicationstorytellingcollaborationleadershippsychological safetycreativityrelationship buildinginclusivity