The Manager of UI Design oversees and directs various aspects of the application design life cycle from feature request to development completion, which consists of: concept development, planning, requirements analysis, design, development, design review to ensure that the delivered products exceed client expectations. The manager will be lead a team of 4-6 of UI design professionals and will manage team capacity, priorities, and planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning and management of Design team tasks/deliverables including estimating timelines, establishing priorities, ensuring tasks are complete
• Managing Design team capacity and communicating resource availability to dependent teams
• Attending internal and client-facing status meetings and following up on Design team action items and requirements
• Responsible for alleviating and/or preventing blocks by communicating requirements with other departments
• Attend sprint retrospectives and technical grooming sessions
• Mentoring and pairing with leads and designers as needed
• Working closely with QA department to deliver quality releases
• Track and manage contract milestones and anticipated completion dates. Work with project managers, product managers, and development managers to and communicate milestone schedules.
• Work with cross-functional stakeholders and contributors to align resources and internal schedules to support client product release and client delivery commitments. Cross-functional teams include Development, Services, Client Services, IT & Security, and Sales.
• Work with designers and developers to ensure features are implemented as designed
• Work with Director of Product Management, business analysts, and designers to develop appropriate documentation.
• Align product roadmap delivery dates and client-launch commitments; ensure on-time delivery and contingency planning; approve all external date commitments.
• Track and produce monthly report of design team throughput, burn down trends, budget compliance, and schedule accuracy.
• Provide monthly reports that summarize revised labor forecasts based on assumptions and known workloads.
• Working with Professional Services team to gather requirements and deliver estimates and critical updates throughout the implementations process
• Working with Product Management to collaborate through creative brainstorming sessions, assist in writing user stories/functional requirements
• Working with application development team to deliver functional requirements and ensure features are built to specifications
• Reporting accomplishments, goals, issues and deliverable statuses to VP of Product Management and other team members
• Researching technologies and frameworks to increase efficiency and keep us on the leading edge
• Working with business development to aid in closing sales, growing relationships and demonstrating functionality

General Qualification Requirements

• Agile software development team management experience
• Experience working with designers and developers to implement products
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Experience writing detailed business requirements
• Ability to quickly understand business problems and communicate technical solutions in understandable terms
• Good understanding of technology – specifically enterprise software development
• Experience with Jira issue & project tracking platform

Reporting Structure

• This position reports to the VP of Product Management
• This position has the following direct reports:
  1. Lead UI Designer
  2. Senior UI Designer
  3. UI Designer
  4. UI Designer
  5. UI Designer

Things to Know

• Relocation:  We cannot offer relocation; you must already reside within a reasonable commuting distance to Plano
• Sponsorship:  We cannot offer employer sponsorship at this time; you must already be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment.
• Contract Work:  We don’t need independent contractors, experts wanting a second income, or professional services companies to assist us in this search or in the actual work. We want actual, real people dedicated on our in-house team.