Akkodis is seeking a Senior Manager, UX/UI Design for a 6 months contract with a client in Raleigh NC 27609
Title: Senior Manager, UX/UI Design
Duration: 6 Months, potential for extension
Location: Raleigh NC 27609
Pay rate: $75 - $80/hr (The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.)
Summary
Looking for a Senior Manager of UX/UI Design to lead a high performing design team and shape the future of user experience across our retail ecosystem. This role blends creative leadership, strategic thinking, and deep collaboration with teams across product, engineering, merchandising, operations, marketing, and analytics.
Champion user centered design, elevate design quality, and drive a unified experience strategy that spans consumer-facing digital experiences, store systems, enterprise tools, and associate workflows using Agile methodologies.
The primary mission for this role will be to optimize user experiences with a customer-first mindset. Ensuring cohesive progress forward across multiple platforms while leading the UX design team on multiple projects.
Responsibility
Lead & Grow the Design Team
• Build, mentor, and coach a team of UX/UI designers with clear expectations, feedback, and career development.
• Foster a culture of creativity, accountability, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Establish and maintain design standards, workflows, rituals, and scalable design operations.
Champion User-Centered Design
• Embed user research across discovery, design, and validation.
• Translate insights from omnichannel retail experiences-store, curbside, ecommerce, mobile, POS-into actionable design opportunities.
• Communicate usability findings and experience insights to influence product decisions.
Shape Retail Experience Strategy
• Define and evangelize a UX vision that enables common experiences across web, mobile app, POS, B2B platforms, and internal tools.
• Partner with product, engineering, marketing, and CX to align on vision, priorities, and seamless execution.
• Support discovery efforts such as journey mapping, service design, experience audits, and opportunity assessments.
Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Collaborate closely with product and technology leaders on roadmaps, resourcing, and sequencing.
• Partner with analytics teams to interpret behavioral data and generate design insights.
• Engage store operations and field teams to understand associate workflows and pain points.
Ensure Design Quality & Governance
• Review and critique work to ensure usability, accessibility, cohesion, and brand alignment.
• Implement and evolve scalable design systems for both customer-facing and enterprise-facing products.
• Manage and interpret ADA compliance audits in partnership with product teams.
Measure & Communicate Impact
• Define and track UX and research metrics tied to user and business outcomes.
• Communicate design impact through insights, prototypes, narratives, storytelling, and measurable results.
• Apply A/B and multivariate testing to validate design hypotheses and guide iteration.
Required
• 8+ years of UX/UI design experience, including 2+ years in a leadership or people management role.
• Experience leading UX across complex multiplatform ecosystems (web, app, POS, B2B, internal tools).
• Strong understanding of user research methods, accessibility standards, information architecture, and interaction design.
• Experience with rapid concept sketching, wireframing, prototyping, and MVP deliverables while having the longer view of how to achieve the desired outcome.
• Experience with ecommerce, retail operations, or work flow heavy B2B or enterprise products.
• Ability to lead A/B testing programs and translate behavioral results into design improvements.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and cross functional influence skills.
• Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (Figma preferred, Sketch, Adobe, or similar), as well as Jira and Confluence.
Preferred
• Experience scaling design operations and design systems.
• Experience shaping UX strategy in large, matrixed organizations.
• Background in service design, journey mapping, or experience audits.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.
To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit
The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
· The California Fair Chance Act
· Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
· Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
· San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Title: Senior Manager, UX/UI Design
Duration: 6 Months, potential for extension
Location: Raleigh NC 27609
Pay rate: $75 - $80/hr (The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.)
Summary
Looking for a Senior Manager of UX/UI Design to lead a high performing design team and shape the future of user experience across our retail ecosystem. This role blends creative leadership, strategic thinking, and deep collaboration with teams across product, engineering, merchandising, operations, marketing, and analytics.
Champion user centered design, elevate design quality, and drive a unified experience strategy that spans consumer-facing digital experiences, store systems, enterprise tools, and associate workflows using Agile methodologies.
The primary mission for this role will be to optimize user experiences with a customer-first mindset. Ensuring cohesive progress forward across multiple platforms while leading the UX design team on multiple projects.
Responsibility
Lead & Grow the Design Team
• Build, mentor, and coach a team of UX/UI designers with clear expectations, feedback, and career development.
• Foster a culture of creativity, accountability, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Establish and maintain design standards, workflows, rituals, and scalable design operations.
Champion User-Centered Design
• Embed user research across discovery, design, and validation.
• Translate insights from omnichannel retail experiences-store, curbside, ecommerce, mobile, POS-into actionable design opportunities.
• Communicate usability findings and experience insights to influence product decisions.
Shape Retail Experience Strategy
• Define and evangelize a UX vision that enables common experiences across web, mobile app, POS, B2B platforms, and internal tools.
• Partner with product, engineering, marketing, and CX to align on vision, priorities, and seamless execution.
• Support discovery efforts such as journey mapping, service design, experience audits, and opportunity assessments.
Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Collaborate closely with product and technology leaders on roadmaps, resourcing, and sequencing.
• Partner with analytics teams to interpret behavioral data and generate design insights.
• Engage store operations and field teams to understand associate workflows and pain points.
Ensure Design Quality & Governance
• Review and critique work to ensure usability, accessibility, cohesion, and brand alignment.
• Implement and evolve scalable design systems for both customer-facing and enterprise-facing products.
• Manage and interpret ADA compliance audits in partnership with product teams.
Measure & Communicate Impact
• Define and track UX and research metrics tied to user and business outcomes.
• Communicate design impact through insights, prototypes, narratives, storytelling, and measurable results.
• Apply A/B and multivariate testing to validate design hypotheses and guide iteration.
Required
• 8+ years of UX/UI design experience, including 2+ years in a leadership or people management role.
• Experience leading UX across complex multiplatform ecosystems (web, app, POS, B2B, internal tools).
• Strong understanding of user research methods, accessibility standards, information architecture, and interaction design.
• Experience with rapid concept sketching, wireframing, prototyping, and MVP deliverables while having the longer view of how to achieve the desired outcome.
• Experience with ecommerce, retail operations, or work flow heavy B2B or enterprise products.
• Ability to lead A/B testing programs and translate behavioral results into design improvements.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and cross functional influence skills.
• Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (Figma preferred, Sketch, Adobe, or similar), as well as Jira and Confluence.
Preferred
• Experience scaling design operations and design systems.
• Experience shaping UX strategy in large, matrixed organizations.
• Background in service design, journey mapping, or experience audits.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.
To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit
The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
· The California Fair Chance Act
· Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
· Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
· San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance