Experience Design Manager Sr
Pittsburgh, PA - USA
Job Summary
As an Experience Design Manager Senior in PNCs Digital organization you can be located in Pittsburgh PA Cleveland OH Columbus OH Orlando FL or Raleigh this role youll lead a team responsible for designing the future of how employees work across complex operational processes and workflows. Partnering with business product technology and design leaders youll help shape a large-scale platform modernization effort that brings together experiences tools and processes into a more unified ecosystem.
Were looking for someone who is passionate about systems thinking process design and organizational impact. This role goes beyond delivering individual products or screens. Youll guide the creation of connected experiences that reduce complexity improve operational efficiency and establish a vision for how work gets done across the enterprise. At the same time youll develop and coach designers helping them grow their skills expand their influence and advance their careers.
Youll work across these human-centered design practices:
-User experience research and testing
-Process and workflow design
-Interaction and user experience design
-Service design and systems thinking
-Design systems and experience standards
-Prototyping and concept validation
In this role you will:
-Lead coach and develop a team of designers fostering growth engagement and design excellence.
-Set design vision and strategy across a suite of products workflows and platforms.
-Drive the transformation of complex operational experiences through process design systems thinking and workflow architecture.
-Partner with business product and technology leaders to align priorities and deliver meaningful outcomes.
-Establish and scale experience patterns standards and design system adoption across teams.
-Create alignment across initiatives to ensure connected consistent and efficient user experiences.
-Leverage research insights and data to inform strategy and decision-making.
-Communicate design direction and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
-Ensure high-quality design execution across multiple teams products and initiatives.
We think you could be successful if you:
-Are a strong people leader who inspires coaches and develops others.
-Think in systems and can simplify complex processes and workflows.
-Build trusted partnerships across business product technology and design teams.
-Communicate clearly and influence stakeholders through vision strategy and storytelling.
-Balance long-term thinking with practical execution and measurable outcomes.
-Navigate ambiguity with confidence and bring clarity to complex challenges.
-Champion user-centered design while understanding business and operational needs.
Preferred qualifications:
-Experience leading and developing teams of experience designers product designers or UX professionals
-Experience designing complex enterprise operations workflow or employee-facing platforms
-Demonstrated success driving cross-functional initiatives across business product technology and design organizations
-Experience establishing or scaling design systems experience standards and governance models
-Strong portfolio demonstrating leadership of large-scale end-to-end experience initiatives
-Experience working with the Figma suite of design tools
-Experience supporting design initiatives within Agile development environments
-Knowledge and experience in the financial services industry is desired but not requiredPNC is an in-office company that fosters a supportive culture where employees can thrive and achieve balance. We encourage candidates to connect with their recruiter and hiring manager to understand workplace expectations and ensure the role aligns with their goals.PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.
- Lead Experience Design team in creating digital experiences across a range of user touchpoints. Drive partnerships across the enterprise with product management design and technology in developing strategies in delivering engaging usable consistent and accessible experiences aligned with business objectives cohesive with all of PNCs digital properties.
- Establish and refine operations processes for team. Guide the teams maturity in establishing design practices including cultivating a culture of critique and informing the design process through regular research.
- Partners with product & technology peers as well as design leaders on the individual customer experience. Lead design function in agile development crews and practice human-centered design across the domains of visual and communication design interaction and user experience design prototyping and design research.
- Lead partnership with product management and technology leadership to set vision for the customer experience for a particular feature area product etc. Guide product strategy to ensure it is meeting customer needs.
- Assess digital experience trends and results in order to recommend new digital experiences or enhancements to existing experiences by leveraging industry and market place research and insights.
- Develop and mentor designers. Drive design leaders to improve the community of practice for all design teams.
PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:
- Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
- Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNCs Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
PNC also has fundamental expectations of our people managers. As a manager of talent in PNC you will be expected to:
- Include Intentionally - Cultivates diverse teams and inclusive workplaces to expand thinking.
- Live the Values - Role models our values with transparency and courage.
- Enable Change - Takes action to drive change and innovation that will transform our business.
- Achieve Results - Takes personal ownership to deliver results. Empowers and trusts others in decision making.
- Develop the Best - Raises the bar with every talent decision and guides the achievement of all employees and customer.
Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge skills and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills competencies work experience education and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.
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At PNC we foster an inclusive and accessible workplace. We provide reasonable accommodations to employment applicants and qualified individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to perform the essential functions of their positions.
PNC provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race color sex religion national origin age sexual orientation gender identity disability veteran status or other categories protected by law.
This position is subject to the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) and for any registered role the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (SAFE Act) and/or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) which prohibit the hiring of individuals with certain criminal history.
Required Experience:
Manager