About the Role
Title: Manager, UX Design (USA Remote)
Location: United States
Job Description:
When you join Turnitin, you’ll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 21,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Feedback Studio, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate.
Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.
Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.
Turnitin, LLC is an equal opportunity employer- vets/disabled.
Turnitin is a pioneer in education technology with its roots in academic integrity, delivering flexible assessment solutions to higher education institutions, high schools, and graduate programs. With the broadest and deepest applications of AI for education, Turnitin is building innovative new products for the next decade of education. We are seeking an experienced design leader to help us increase our velocity to deliver knowledge, products, and capabilities to help educational institutions empower student outcomes with academic integrity. As a UX Design Manager, you will be responsible for the end-to-end user experience. You will manage a team of designers to craft elegant design solutions across a range of educational solutions at global scale. You will collaborate closely with product and engineering partners as well as the cross-functional UX team.
To succeed in this role, you must drive operational excellence and uplevel the quality of design output. You thrive in a highly ambiguous, fast-paced environment. Our environment requires the skills to work collaboratively and the commitment to take ownership with a high-degree of independence.
A day in the life:
The UX Design Manager will be working with each team member as well as product and engineering stakeholders on a day-to-day basis. The manager will also spend time on team management tasks, design reviews, and sometimes roll-up their sleeves to contribute to the UX vision. The manager will set the tone for the team, where every work day is engaging and contributes to building trust and meaningful connections with each other.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads a talented team of UX designers by defining and sustaining best practices.
- Manages the user experience design of multiple mid-to-large-sized programs through leading a design team.
- Participates in setting the vision for the UX organization and influencing the product roadmap.
- Champions for user-centered design culture. Drives creative process and collaboration with cross-functional partners to propose new ideas and strategies.
- Models behavior that exemplifies Turnitin values on their team. Raises the design bar for the team.
- Provides coaching and feedback, with an emphasis on growing design acumen.
- Creates and drives adoption of design guidelines, mechanisms, best practices, process and tools.
Essential:
- Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI) or equivalent professional experience.
- 6+ years of industry experience in UX design or related discipline.
- Experience managing a design team. Proven ability to drive better outcomes through coaching.
- Experience leading design teams that deliver end-to-end experiences with large scope and complexity.
- A strong portfolio of the candidate’s personal design work and design team deliverables under this candidates’ leadership, demonstrating user-centered, multi-platform and scalable design solutions.
Desirable:
- Experience in driving viable UX frameworks and product architectures in highly ambiguous environments.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver large- scale strategic design initiatives with a bias toward scalable systems and patterns.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Tracking record of successfully building, growing and retaining design talent, promoting strong creative team culture.
Personal Attributes:
- Change Leadership -The ability to initiate, sponsor, and implement organizational or process change; helping others to successfully manage organizational or process change.
- Goal Setting & Vision Execution – Is able to set a clear vision for their direct reports that ties into the company strategy, and turn that vision into meaningful, measurable and actionable goals to be executed on.
- Accountability – Holds oneself responsible for required actions, and ensures that team members/colleagues/peers also own responsibility for their designated tasks while meeting collective team and company goals. All in service of creating a high performing environment.
- Collaboration & Influencing – Effectively communicates and cooperates with peers, partners, leaders & customers to achieve outcomes. Builds relationships and creates an environment wherein people can naturally work together for the good of the company and our customers.
- Diversity & Inclusivity – Encourages and celebrates diversity at every level within the organization. Understanding that many cultures, traditions, beliefs, languages, thoughts and lifestyles are prevalent in both the workforce as well as the customer populations, and are respected without judgment. Works to create an environment of belonging.
- Curiosity – Has a growth mindset and leads with questions vs. assumptions. Unleashes creativity and possibility by actively seeking new experiences, information, and knowledge; embraces challenge, takes risks, learns fast and welcomes change.
- Resourcefulness – Possesses a mindset of abundance and redefines what’s possible; creates and advances ways of achieving results in new or difficult situations either by appropriating additional resources, or by doing more with less.