User Experience Project Manager

Description

Our client's Digital User Experience team seeks a Senior UX Program Manager to enhance Design Operations by leading initiatives that improve design throughput, consistency, quality, and transparency. Reporting to the Manager of Program Management, you will be responsible for implementing planning, tracking, and reporting mechanisms. You will collaborate with design teams to adopt design processes and guidelines and strengthen connections across product teams. Your role involves working with Design, Research, Product Management, and Engineering teams to establish scalable approaches that amplify design efforts.

As a Senior UX Program Manager, you will operate with a high degree of independence and ownership in areas where program strategy is still being defined. Your knowledge and experience in product, software, and user experience design will inform your decisions. You have successfully established and managed various design-related processes, resources, and programs that have yielded measurable results.

You are adept at evolving, improving, and simplifying processes that scale across multiple teams and methodologies. You excel at driving clarity and alignment among partners and stakeholders. In this role, you will promote operational excellence, process improvement, and team enablement across design functions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to streamline workflows and optimize work practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of project management tools and methodologies (Agile to Waterfall)

• Deep understanding and knowledge of human-centered design process

• Experience managing UX programs and working with Design and Research

• Strong ability to effectively manage cross functional projects, dependencies and bottlenecks

• Experience escalating issues and anticipating and making hard trade-offs between business and customer need

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work effectively with tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment

• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously with minimal supervision

• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

- Manage design operations, including intake processes and backlogs

- Work closely with design managers on prioritization, goal-tracking, and resource planning

- Drive review cadences, status updates, and timely delivery across product development lifecycles

- Document and optimize frameworks, standard processes, and best practices for the design teams

- Establish predictable, repeatable processes that help Studio leaders and contributors prioritize, plan, and execute multiple parallel projects

- Foster cross-org transparency by working closely with Design, Research, Product, and Engineering leaders to create, maintain and publish reporting and dashboards that share project information and illustrate progress against goals

- Work with the Manager of Program Management and cross-functional leadership to identify and implement new programs to raise the customer-experience bar for the entire Digital organization

- Facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration across UX portfolio teams

- Create seamless onboarding experiences and team-wide standards for new hires

- Identify opportunities for training and support resources to enhance the team's capabilities

- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between design, business, and engineering teams

- Provide regular updates and communicate effectively with key stakeholders

- Escalate issues, anticipate trade-offs, and balance business needs with customer experience constraints

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Typical task breakdown:

- Lead design operations: intake, backlog management, and prioritization.

- Collaborate with design managers on goal-tracking and resource planning.

- Drive review cadences and ensure timely delivery across product lifecycles.

- Document and optimize frameworks, processes, and best practices.

- Create and maintain dashboards and reporting tools for transparency.

- Facilitate onboarding, training, and knowledge sharing.

- Escalate issues and manage trade-offs between business and user needs.

Interaction with team:

- Lead design operations: intake, backlog management, and prioritization.

- Collaborate with design managers on goal-tracking and resource planning.

- Drive review cadences and ensure timely delivery across product lifecycles.

- Document and optimize frameworks, processes, and best practices.

- Create and maintain dashboards and reporting tools for transparency.

- Facilitate onboarding, training, and knowledge sharing.

- Escalate issues and manage trade-offs between business and user needs.

- 3 folks on WD team.

- Working with product engineering and user Experience team (Stakeholders)

Work environment:

- Lead design operations: intake, backlog management, and prioritization.

- Collaborate with design managers on goal-tracking and resource planning.

- Drive review cadences and ensure timely delivery across product lifecycles.

- Document and optimize frameworks, processes, and best practices.

- Create and maintain dashboards and reporting tools for transparency.

- Facilitate onboarding, training, and knowledge sharing.

- Escalate issues and manage trade-offs between business and user needs.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Chicago, IL.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $65.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Chicago,IL.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 21, 2025.

h4> About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.