Veracross

UX Design Manager

Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States

Sponsorship not specified$140k-$160kDetected 36 days ago

RubyVue.jsRailsFigmaUX ResearchUX DesignWireframingDesign SystemsAccessibilityResearchCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

Epraise incentivizes student well-being and connects teachers, students, and families.
Define how UX integrates with product and engineering - from discovery through delivery - and codify the rituals, artifacts, and decision rights that make it work.
Conduct user research and usability testing to deeply understand the needs of diverse personas-teachers, families, administrators, and students.

Lead UX design across multiple Veracross product areas, including SIS, Admissions, Academics, Communications, Fundraising, and FinTech.
Work within and evolve our design systems, ensuring consistency across legacy interfaces while contributing to modern, scalable design patterns.
Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and high-fidelity designs that communicate clear, intuitive solutions for complex workflows.
Collaborate closely with product managers and engineering teams, translating requirements into elegant, feasible designs that scale across the platform.
Partner with engineering to ensure designs are implemented accurately across Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and legacy front-end frameworks.
Use AI-assisted design tools to accelerate exploration, generate variations, and support documentation.
Contribute to design system governance, helping define components, patterns, and guidelines used across all Veracross products.
Document UX patterns, research insights, and design rationale, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams.
Support cross-product integrations, ensuring cohesive experiences across the entire Veracross platform.
Manage, mentor, and develop UX designers across our product portfolio.

Strong understanding of UX principles, interaction design, information architecture, and accessibility standards.

Proficiency with modern design tools (Figma preferred) and comfort using AI-assisted design workflows.

We are a growing, values-led community of employees in the US, UK and Australia who share a vision to unify school communities, improve the quality of education, and enhance learning.
Firefly provides an online learning space for students and teachers
business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
The compensation range for this position is $140k to $160k (annualized USD) in addition to potential bonus.
Establish the design vision, principles, and standards that guide all UI/UX work across the company.
A flexible, curious, and collaborative mindset.
Authorized to work in the United States Nice to Haves Experience designing for education technology, student information systems, or multi-persona platforms.

Authorized to work in the United States Nice to Haves Experience designing for education technology, student information systems, or multi-persona platforms

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