
CX/UX Design Manager – Nursing
Wolters Kluwer
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Princeton • Florida • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $128,900 - $226,050 per year
About the role
- Own UX strategy for key Nursing initiatives across education and practice portfolios
- Use iterative discovery and experimentation to reduce product risk by validating value, business viability, usability, and feasibility early and continuously
- Frame complex or competing inputs into clear problem statements and opportunity areas
- Initiate and lead PreVis / visioning workshops to align teams on future-state experiences and priorities
- Bring UX into the earliest stages of product thinking, shaping problems before solutions are defined
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and AI teams to ensure feasibility, quality, and follow-through
- Collaborate closely with UX Research to ensure that insights guide strategic decisions and direction, and that proposed solutions are thoroughly validated
- Guide work from strategy through execution, including concepts, roadmaps, and shipped experiences
- Stay hands-on when needed , particularly during early discovery or high-ambiguity initiatives
- Design across end-to-end journeys, workflows, and platforms
- Embed accessibility (WCAG) into UX thinking and delivery from the start
- Reinforce consistent UX patterns and experience quality across the Nursing and broader Health ecosystem
- Help shape agentic and AI-enabled experiences that are usable, trustworthy, and grounded in real nursing workflows
- Lead and develop UX designers, setting clear expectations and providing ongoing coaching
- Evolve team structure and engagement models as the business scales
- Manage day-to-day resourcing, including oversight of contractors and external partners
- Demonstrate responsible stewardship of allocated resources and delivery commitments
- Foster a collaborative, outcomes-oriented UX culture
- Act as a change agent , increasing UX maturity across partners and teams
- Influence without authority through credibility, clarity, and strong facilitation
- Represent UX effectively in cross-functional and leadership forums
- Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations in executive-ready narratives
Requirements
- Experience leading UX in complex, ambiguous product environments
- Strong facilitation skills with a track record of driving alignment and decisions
- Ability to influence cross-functional partners without formal authority
- History of impactful, user-centered product experiences
- Strong product thinking and business awareness
- Comfort operating as a player-coach
- Preferred Experience in healthcare, education, or other regulated industries
- Familiarity with accessibility and inclusive design practices
- Experience contributing to AI-enabled or emerging technology experiences
- Background in systems thinking or service design
- Technical & Craft Foundations
- Experience working with design systems and scalable UX patterns
- Working knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards
- Proficiency with Figma and current Figma best practices (auto-layout, local-components, selection, etc.)
- Adobe Creative Suite familiarity a plus
- Understanding of agile development and complex, cross-functional delivery
- Foundational knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3 to support effective collaboration with Engineering
- Experience or working knowledge in the AI space, including designing or partnering on AI‑enabled experiences and understanding implications for usability, trust, and workflow integration
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans
- 401(k)
- FSA/HSA
- Commuter Benefits
- Tuition Assistance Plan
- Vacation and Sick Time
- Paid Parental Leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
facilitationinfluence without authoritycollaborationcoachingcommunicationproblem framingstrategic thinkingoutcomes-orientedchange agentleadership