Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WebstaurantStore helps businesses operate efficiently by providing supplies, products, services, and private label brands. The UI/UX Design Manager will lead a small team designing marketing sites for private label brands, balancing hands-on design with coaching, creative direction, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery oversight.
Responsibilities
- Provide clear creative direction and actionable feedback to help designers grow their craft and critical thinking
- Partner closely with brand and marketing teams to shape the visual and narrative strategy for each private label site
- Maintain a high bar for quality across design outputs: interaction, visual, and experience
- Guide discovery work and help teams make smart tradeoffs between scope, impact, and quality
- Mentor and coach designers, supporting growth through regular feedback and goal planning
- Foster a culture that values curiosity, collaboration, and craft
- Help designers stay connected to brand goals, customer needs, and site performance
- Partner with senior design leadership on hiring, performance, and development plans
- Translate brand strategy and customer insights into design priorities and deliverables for each private label site
- Facilitate alignment and communication between design, marketing, and development
- Advocate for design and brand experience in team planning and decision-making
- Support cross-functional initiatives that improve site usability, consistency, and performance across the private label portfolio
- Help evolve team processes to improve clarity, efficiency, and collaboration
- Contribute to and help maintain shared systems like design libraries, brand guidelines, and documentation
- Ensure projects are scoped, tracked, and delivered smoothly across multiple brand sites
Skills
- Access to a reliable and secure high-speed internet connection
- Access to a home router and modem
- A dedicated home office space that is noise- and distraction-free
- A valid, physical address (apartment, suite, etc.). PO Boxes are not supported, as a physical address is required for you to receive your computer equipment
- The desire and ability to work and communicate with other team members via chat, webcam, etc
- Legal residents of one of the following states: (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WI, WV, and WY)
- We only accept W-2 candidates, H-1B sponsorship is not available
- Work is performed while sitting/standing and interfacing with a personal computer
- Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision, and hearing
- Requires the regular use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations
- Requires occasional bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, and reaching
- Requires the ability to occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull medium weights, up to 50lbs
- 8+ years of experience in UI/UX design, with 3+ years leading designers or design teams
- Strong portfolio of shipped marketing or brochure sites demonstrating clear, effective brand storytelling. Track record of improving design quality and aligning work to brand and business outcomes
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams and working knowledge of front-end code to bridge the gap between design and development
- Proficiency in Figma and familiarity with design systems, brand guidelines, UX research, and accessibility best practices
- This role does not require a degree. We value relevant skills and experience and alignment with our core values above all else
- Balances design excellence with practical delivery
- Excellent communicator who creates clarity and alignment across creative and business functions
- Empathetic leader who invests in people and fosters trust
- Passionate about building simple, compelling brand experiences that resonate with customers
- Thrives in a collaborative, fast-moving environment
- Cable or fiber internet connections (at least 75mbps download/10mbps upload) are preferred, as satellite connections often cannot support the technologies used to perform day-to-day tasks
- A dedicated home office space that is noise- and distraction-free. The space should have strong wireless connection or a wired Ethernet connection (wired connection is preferred, if possible)
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