UX Manager

About the role

The UX Manager will own the user experience function for Wenco’s mining software portfolio, setting direction, establishing a design system, and shaping how design collaborates with product and engineering. This is a greenfield role combining hands‑on design work with team leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Own UX across the product portfolio and act as an embedded designer on new applications, including a major platform project.
• Build and maintain a design system and component library, defining architecture, governance, contribution processes and documentation.
• Define UX standards and agile ways of working, and shape AI‑enabled experiences and AI tooling for design.
• Conduct user research, synthesize findings and validate design direction.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers and senior stakeholders to align UX with product strategy.
• Lead, mentor and grow a small design team, championing accessibility, usability and design quality.

Required profile

• 10+ years of professional UX/product design experience with a strong portfolio in B2B applications.
• Proven experience building design systems or evolving existing ones.
• Experience leading and hiring design teams, setting direction without a senior designer above.
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑enabled product UX or AI‑assisted design tooling.
• Strong communication skills and ability to present design rationale to senior leadership.

Required skills

• Figma (design and prototyping)
• Design system architecture and component library development
• AI‑enabled UX design and AI‑assisted design tooling
• Accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles