
User Experience Manager
McGraw Hill
1 Positions
ID: 6385
Posted On 12/23/2025
Job Overview
Overview
- Acts as a change agent by evangelizing human-centered design methodologies and best practices across the organization, supporting cross-functional product teams at varying levels of design maturity.
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of broader business objectives and school platform goals, incorporating research insights, analytics, intuition, and design sensibility into experience decisions.
- Collaborates with Product Research to define learning objectives, develop research plans, and iteratively translate insights into engaging, effective experiences for students and teachers while managing multiple complex design efforts in parallel.
- Sets a high standard for craft and collaboration, serving as a trusted design leader who guides work across a significant program area, identifies patterns across products, and navigates complex, cross-organizational initiatives.
- Partners closely with engineering and product management to ensure experience designs are implemented effectively and deliver measurable value, modeling strong collaboration between designers and engineers.
- Presents and communicates ideas, concepts, and solutions clearly and professionally to diverse audiences, including senior leadership, stakeholders, peers, and direct reports, and coaches others to do the same.
- Manages and mentors one or more designers, supporting individual development plans and goal setting aligned to business objectives, and providing guidance on discovery and delivery best practices, influence, and communication skills.
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Presents a portfolio demonstrating web and mobile design solutions, clearly illustrating design process and cross-functional collaboration throughout the Product Development Lifecycle.
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Brings 8+ years of experience in product development, user experience design, product design, creative, or marketing roles, including 3+ years of people management experience.
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Holds a bachelor’s degree in human-computer interaction, human factors engineering, information architecture, digital design, interaction design, or a related field.
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Applies product development experience within EdTech environments, contributing to learner-centered and educator-focused solutions.
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Demonstrates strong knowledge of software usability principles and current interface design trends and best practices.
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Leads and coordinates design efforts across multiple products to deliver cohesive, centralized user experiences.
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Produces low- and high-fidelity journey maps, workflows, sketches, wireframes, and detailed design documentation to support discovery and delivery phases.
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Communicates effectively using strong presentation, analytical, and storytelling skills to align stakeholders around design decisions.
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Utilizes advanced UX wireframing and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Proto.io, and Miro, with working knowledge of front-end frameworks including Bootstrap and React, as well as basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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Applies deep understanding of responsive design principles and accessibility guidelines to create inclusive digital experiences.
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Delivers measurable value to target audiences while working within Agile development environments.
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Demonstrates exceptional organizational, time management, and attention-to-detail skills, effectively managing multiple concurrent projects with limited supervision.
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Communicates design rationale clearly and professionally through excellent verbal and written communication skills, confidently presenting and defending design decisions to diverse audiences.
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