Product Design (UX) Manager Job at EverDriven in Greenwood Village

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EverDriven is a rapidly growing, tech-enabled transportation management company, serving some of the most vulnerable children in our community. We exist to ensure that children with special needs receive safe, efficient, and cost- effective transportation to and from school. Our proprietary, best-in-class technology solutions enable school districts and parents to easily plan, track and adjust each student’s trips, to and from school, and gives the student access to the educational experience they deserve. Every Trip. Every Day. If you’re someone who thrives in a mission forward, fast-paced, technology driven environment, we would love to talk to you about a fulfilling career at EverDriven.

Position Summary

We’re seeking a Product Design (UX) Manager to lead our design practice during a critical period of product transformation. This player-coach role combines team leadership with hands-on design work – you’ll manage, mentor and grow our small design team while also contributing hands-on to key initiatives that advance our proprietary platform and mobile applications to deliver delightful, breakthrough experiences for school districts, drivers, and families. Help us advance design standards and methods for rapid prototyping, user research, and more to shape the future of how we help vulnerable students.

Salary Range: $140,000 - $160,000/year, based on experience + bonus potential

Location - Greenwood Village, CO. Hybrid role - 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

Responsibilities

• Lead UX/product designers: Manage, mentor, develop and advocate for our team.
• Contribute hands-on to research, ideation and designing experiences.
• Establish design excellence: mature our design standards that balance consistency, flexibility and accessibility (e.g WCAG) across our ecosystem.
• Drive product collaboration: Partner with product and engineering to deliver intuitive, modernized experiences across desktop and mobile.
• Champion user research: Lead research, usability testing and experiments to inform product decisions and mitigate usability risks.
• Facilitate design thinking: Run workshops and cross-functional ideation sessions.
• Advance our mobile app experiences for drivers, parents, teachers and students with intuitive, scalable designs.
• Advocate for users (districts, drivers, parents, students and internal operations), understanding their unique needs and environments. Help colleagues glean insights and context about jobs to be done, motivations, and user journeys.

Requirements

Experience & Leadership:

• 7+ years of UX/UI/product design experience, with 2+ years in a leadership, mentorship, or team-lead capacity.
• Portfolio showcasing research-driven mobile and web application design and design systems.
• Proven experience supporting growth and development of designers, design practices, collaboration, communication and thought leadership.

Collaboration & Process

• Demonstrated success and best practices for collaborating effectively with product, engineering, data, operations, marketing and other stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience conducting user research, usability testing, and usage analysis (e.g. Clarity and Google Analytics) that surface prioritized insights (preferred: experience applying AI to design and analyze research).
• Strong communication and facilitation skills—comfortable leading design thinking, journey mapping and design reviews with key stakeholders.

Design & Organizational Skills

• Expert in modern design tools (Figma, Material UI, Miro preferred) and prototyping methods (AI-assisted rapid prototyping/vibe coding experience preferred).
• Comfortable navigating a fast-moving, evolving transition of legacy-to-modern experiences, mitigating inherent usability risks and change management.
• Strong at organizing, prioritizing and executing to regularly ship iterative user value.
• Bonus: experience designing for drivers/transportation/logistics, and easing transition/adoption of internal, operational UIs, dashboards, and processes.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
• Virtual Doctor Visits with $0 Co-Pay
• Life Insurance (company paid)
• Short Term Disability Insurance (company paid)
• Long-Term Disability Insurance (company paid)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time to Volunteer
• Flex Spending Account (FSA)
• 401K Plan (with an awesome employer match!)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Discounts Program

EverDriven is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.