UX Design Manager

Location: Chicago, United States; hybrid workstyle aligned to an hirify.global office. Other listed locations include Phoenix, Raleigh, Orlando, Dallas, Denver Downtown, Minneapolis, and New York.

Compensation range: $126,500–$223,900, plus eligibility for a discretionary performance-based bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a global provider of professional services for middle-market clients.

What you will do

• Lead and manage a UX design team through coaching, mentorship, expectation-setting, and quality oversight.
• Define UX strategy and design direction for products, features, and digital programs based on user needs and organizational goals.
• Oversee and contribute to user journeys, workflow diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity UI designs, and accessibility considerations.
• Plan and oversee interviews, usability studies, concept testing, and analytics analysis, incorporating findings into decision-making.
• Maintain design systems, patterns, components, and standards across digital products.
• Partner with product management, engineering, and business stakeholders to shape requirements, prioritize work, resolve design challenges, and guide product direction.
• Present UX perspectives in roadmap and leadership discussions, improve design processes and tools, and use feedback and performance data for continuous product improvement.
• Foster innovation, experimentation, and inclusive design across the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in UX/UI Design, Human–Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading UX design work across complex, multi-platform digital products.
• Proficiency with industry-standard design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or InVision.
• Experience leading or overseeing user research initiatives and synthesizing insights into actionable design strategies.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to guide and influence design direction across teams and disciplines.
• Portfolio showcasing strategic design thinking, the end-to-end UX process, and leadership in design execution.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workstyle combining office alignment with in-person collaboration based on client, team, development, and relationship-building needs.
• Competitive benefits and compensation package.
• Commitment to equal opportunity, inclusion, and reasonable accommodation.
• Discretionary bonus eligibility based on firm and individual performance.

Hiring process

• Accommodation is available upon request during the application and interview process.
• Entry-level candidates requiring current or future sponsorship are not intended to be hired for this role.