Design & UX Manager (Hybrid)

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Chicago, IL
Hybrid
Senior level
Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software • Analytics • Financial Services
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The Role
The User Experience and Design Manager will lead a UX team, collaborate with product and engineering teams, promote user-centered design practices, and analyze user data to enhance product design and conversion funnels while mentoring team members.
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We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas or take over sponsorship at this time.

About the role:

Are you someone who enjoys jumping between being a strategic collaborator, an inquisitive doer and an inspiring connector? Then we invite you to join our dynamic Enova Studios team as a User Experience and Design Leader. We’re looking for a driven User Experience Manager to lead a team of designers in crafting seamless, user-centered digital experiences for Enova’s consumer and small business financing brands. 

As the UX Manager you'll foster relationships with our product and engineering teams, learn their processes and offer incremental recommendations for increased business impact based on your expertise and experience. You'll work with the business teams to gather and analyze user data to identify friction points and opportunities for improvement within the product and conversion funnels, ensuring that design solutions meet both user and business needs.

In this leadership position, together with the Head of Enova Studios you will be responsible for setting design standards across Enova's businesses. Internally, you'll mentor and develop your team in the areas of data-backed experience design, experience design best practices and their design specialties. You will review work, provide constructive feedback, and collaborate closely with product management and engineering teams to ensure alignment across stages of the product development cycle.

If you’re ready to make a real impact and inspire innovation, we want to hear from you! 

Responsibilities: 

  • Champion design best practices and advocate for the end user within the organization
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing centralized UX and Design team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning
  • Promote a data-driven approach to design, utilizing analytics, user testing, and other tools to inform decisions
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to define and execute a UX strategy that aligns with the overall product roadmap and business objectives
  • Drive user research and usability testing to gather insights and iterate on design solutions that meet user needs and enhance the user journey
  • Maintain design systems, accessibility standards, and be the liaison to our "UXperts" (UI guild) 
  • Manage multiple projects, balancing short-term needs with long-term goals, and ensuring timely delivery

 Requirements:

  • 7–10 years of experience as a practitioner, with a minimum of 3+ years of people management experience in UX Design at a technology or e-commerce company, with an emphasis on mobile web design
  • A Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
  • Experience balancing user needs within highly regulated industries
  • Strong collaboration with engineering on technical feasibility and front-end development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/React), plus experience working in Agile environments and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Flexibility and adaptability to revise designs based on feedback from legal, product, marketing and other stakeholders
  • Expertise in creating and maintaining wireframe systems, user flows, prototypes, specifications, navigation maps, and user research findings
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

About our Enova Studios team:

Enova Studios is a full-service in-house creative agency. We partner with our brands to concept and create the ideas — big and small — that accomplish our shared goal: selling our products and building our business. We work in small, collaborative teams on internal projects for Enova, as well as each of our 10 international brands. Our services include copy and content writing, digital design, user experience design, front-end development, and production.

Compensation:

The budgeted annual salary range for this position is $95,000 to $138,000. Actual annual salary will be determined based on qualifications, skills, experience, and level assessed during the hiring process and may fall outside of the range shown. Additional compensation for this role may include a bonus and restricted stock units. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in Company benefits, described in more detail here.

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Benefits & Perks:

  • Hybrid roles entail working in-office from Tuesday to Thursday, with the choice to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance including mental health benefits
  • 401(k) matching plus a roth option (U.S. Based employees only)
  • PTO & paid holidays off
  • Sabbatical program (for eligible roles)
  • Summer hours (for eligible roles)
  • Paid parental leave
  • DEI groups (B.L.A.C.K. @ Enova, HOLA @ Enova, Women @ Enova, Pride @ Enova, South Asians @ Enova, APEX @ Enova, and Parents @ Enova)
  • Employee recognition and rewards program
  • Charitable matching and a paid volunteer day…Plus so much more!

About Enova

Enova International is a leading financial technology company that provides online financial services through our AI and machine learning-powered Colossus™platform. We serve non-prime consumers and businesses alike, while offering world-class technology and services to traditional banks—in order to create accessible credit for millions. 

Being a values-driven organization is at the core of Enova’s success. We live our values by listening to our customers, challenging assumptions, thinking big, setting high expectations, and hiring and developing the best. Through our values and our commitment to making Enova an awesome place to work, we maintain an environment of inclusion and culture where our employees can thrive. You can learn more about Enova’s values and culture here

It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all persons and not discriminate in employment decisions by placing the most qualified person in each job, without regard to any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. California Applicants: Click here to review our California Privacy Policy for Job Applicants.

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
1,782 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

Enova International is a leading financial technology company providing online financial services through its machine learning powered lending platform. Enova serves the needs of non-prime consumers and small businesses, who are frequently underserved by traditional banks. Enova has provided more than 11.1 million customers with over $58 billion in loans and financing with market leading products that provide a path for them to improve their financial health.

Why Work With Us

Our values encourage ownership and accountability, and we believe the best answer wins, regardless of whose answer it is. We pride ourselves on hiring smart and driven people who bring new and innovative ideas to the table. Our mentality is, "Work someplace awesome." Ready to join us?

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Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Enova’s hybrid work model allows employees to work in the office T, W, and TH with the option to work from home on Monday and Friday.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
HQChicago, IL
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