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User Experience Manager

The People Brand
Carlsbad, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/4/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/2/2026

Own and elevate the end-to-end digital customer experience, balancing conversion performance, brand experience, and scalability. Partner cross-functionally (Marketing, Product, Engineering, Merchandising) to ensure the websites drives measurable business outcomes while delivering a best-in-class user experience. Key challenges include translating business goals into UX strategy and execution, maintaining consistent testing velocity with meaningful impact (not just volume), balancing short-term revenue gains with long-term UX and system improvements, aligning stakeholders across competing priorities, and scaling design systems and experimentation frameworks as the business grows.



Conversion Rate Optimization

  • Own and drive the end-to-end CRO program, including roadmap, prioritization, execution, and reporting.
  • Define and maintain a testing framework (hypothesis quality, statistical rigor, velocity, win rate).
  • Lead development of data-driven UX strategy aligned with revenue, margin, and customer
  • growth goals.
  • Translate insights into clear test hypotheses tied to business impact (AOV, CVR, RPV, LTV).
  • Partner with Analytics to ensure clean tracking, experiment design integrity, and attribution
  • accuracy.
  • Establish and manage a prioritized experimentation backlog across funnel stages.
  • Drive continuous optimization cycles, incorporating learnings into future tests and product
  • decisions.
  • Own reporting cadence (weekly/monthly/quarterly) with clear insights, not just results.
  • Identify and quantify opportunity sizing (impact modeling before testing).


User Experience

  • Own the end-to-end UX/UI vision for the websites, ensuring consistency, usability, and brand alignment.
  • Lead design of high-impact surfaces (homepage, PLPs, PDPs, checkout flows, landing pages).
  • Create user journeys, flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs grounded in data and user behavior.
  • Establish and evolve a scalable design system (components, patterns, tokens).
  • Ensure designs are feasible, performant, and aligned with engineering constraints.
  • Drive UX consistency across all digital touchpoints (site, landing pages, campaigns).
  • Partner with Engineering and Product to ensure high-quality implementation and QA.
  • Balance speed vs. polish—knowing when to ship quickly vs. refine.
  • Own the briefing of UX/UI requirements for projects entering the development queue,
  • ensuring clear specifications and alignment with business goals, and lead UAT (user acceptance testing) to validate functionality, design accuracy, and overall experience prior to release.
  • AI leverage expectations:
  • Rapid prototyping and variation generation • UX audits and heuristic analysis
  • Personalization and dynamic UX concepts



Consumer Insights & Research

  • Own customer insight generation across qualitative and quantitative sources: o heatmaps, session recordings surveys, user interviews analytics funnel data
  • Translate insights prioritized UX improvements o test hypotheses strategic recommendations
  • Identify behavioral patterns and friction points across segments (new vs returning,
  • device, channel).
  • Build a centralized insights repository accessible across teams.


Essential Skills:

  • 3-5 years of CRO or UX experience
  • Comfortable with A/B testing and managing a testing calendar
  • Figma or other prototyping tool experience
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Good at taking initiative
  • Previous retail experience a plus
  • Experience leveraging AI tools for CRO and UX/UI a plus

Salary : $75,000 - $95,000

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