University of Houston
User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Manager
🇺🇸 Houston, TX
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Product Development
🗓️ July 22nd, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Develop and maintain UI standards and style guidelines within the CMS.
- Lead user testing, QA of new releases, and usability research.
- Create and manage documentation including user guides and technical requirements.
- Conduct competitive research, analyze data, and optimize user flow in collaboration with Director.
- Design user experience tools such as site maps, wireframes, flow diagrams, and requirements documents.
- Serve as liaison with IT to define project scope and requirements for backend development.
- Provide direction to front-end developers and collaborate with design teams to ensure quality and consistency.
- Stay updated on technology trends and recommend upgrades for the division.
- Present UI/UX topics to the university marketing community.
- Requires a 4-year degree or equivalent training and at least 7 years of relevant experience with 2 years managing direct reports; education and experience are interchangeable.
- Salary commensurate with experience and education; position is not eligible for sponsorship.
User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Manager Full Description
| Department: Web & Digital Marketing
| Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education
| Description: This position is not eligible for sponsorship.
Develop and maintain user interface standards to be used within the Content Management System (CMS), directs user testing, and QAs new releases. Manages the creation and maintenance of style guidelines, user guides, technical requirements documentation, and any documentation related to the user interface, web design and brand, and user experience.
1. Develop, manage and improve web design for mobile and web, targeting user experience and engagement.
2. Lead and conduct requirements gathering, analysis, competitive research, and usability testing.
3. Work with Director to analyze data, conduct testing and optimize user flow.
4. Create and refine the user-experience including content analysis and strategy, site maps, wireframes, flow diagrams, and user-requirements documents.
5. Facilitate design and feedback sessions with varying audiences and synthesize results into a cohesive set of recommendations and best representation of inputs.
6. Serves as the liaison with the IT department to define scope of projects and establish requirements for back-end development teams, to ensure the full user experience can be implemented.
7. Stay abreast of latest technologies and trends and make recommendations for upgrades for the Division. 8. May provide directions to front-end developers, collaborate with developers/designers and provide critical feedback to ensure consistency and quality of design deliverables.
9. Develop and present to University marketing community on UI/UX subject matter.
10. Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
MQ:
Requires a thorough understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of an analytical, technical or professional discipline; or the basic knowledge of more than one professional discipline. Knowledge of the discipline is normally obtained through a formal, directly job-related 4 year degree from a college or university or an equivalent in-depth specialized training program that is directly related to the type of work being performed. Requires a minimum of Seven (7) years of directly job-related experience. Minimum 2 years managing direct reports.
Additional Job Posting Information:
- Department is willing to accept education in lieu of experience.
- Department is willing to accept experience in lieu of education.
| All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check. The University of Houston System and its universities are an Equal Opportunity Institution.
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