Design Manager (Group Level) - Multiverse

Multiverse is the upskilling platform for AI and Tech adoption. We have partnered with 1,500+ companies in the US & UK to deliver a new kind of learning that’s transforming today’s workforce. Multiverse apprenticeships are designed for people of any age and career stage and focus on building critical AI, data, and tech skills. Multiverse learners have driven $2bn+ ROI for their employers, using the skills they’ve learned to improve productivity and measurable performance.

In June 2022, Multiverse announced a $220 million Series D funding round co-led by StepStone Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst. With a post-money valuation of $1.7bn, the round makes the company the UK’s first EdTech unicorn. But we aren’t stopping there. With a strong operational footprint and 800+ employees globally, we have ambitious plans to continue scaling. We’re building a world where tech skills unlock people’s potential and output. Join Multiverse and power our mission to provide equitable access to economic opportunity, for everyone.

Why This Role Exists

At Multiverse, we’re building a product-led business that transforms the workplace through high-quality apprenticeships, giving people from all backgrounds access to world-class careers. Our UX team designs intuitive, inclusive, insight-driven experiences that drive real outcomes — with velocity, learning, and craft excellence at the core. We’re seeking a strategic, hands-on Design Manager to elevate UX quality and effectiveness across a pivotal product group: Product Fundamentals.

You’ll help deliver against our “Cost to Serve” OKR, building smarter systems that reduce operational effort without compromising user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Shape UX vision and priorities across your group.
• Align 3–4 cross-functional squads around user-centred goals, driving quality, efficiency, and measurable impact.
• Be a hands-on leader (Player-Coach).
• Champion quality and growth.
• Drive scalable, cost-efficient systems.
• Collaborate across disciplines.
• Embed Growth Design practices.
• Evolve our design operations.
• Hire, lead, and develop your team.

Your Impact

• You’ll be measured by your ability to build a high-performing, aligned design team.
• Raise the quality bar through coaching, standards, and clear UX vision.
• Drive a scalable, impactful UX strategy that supports business goals.

About You

• Proven experience leading design teams and scaling quality in fast-paced environments.
• Strong UX craft and systems thinking, with a portfolio showing real-world impact.
• Skilled at balancing strategic leadership and hands-on contribution.
• Collaborative by nature — building strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, and Data.
• Comfortable embedding Growth Design principles and experimentation mindsets.
• A strong coach who grows designers’ craft, confidence, and impact.
• Fluent in Figma and fast at using prototyping for communication and alignment.
• Embodying Multiverse values, especially "Development is at our core."

Bonus Points

• Show proof of curiosity through side projects — experimenting with things like 'vibe coding', new AI tools, or self-driven UX challenges.
• Bring multidimensional experience across complementary areas like coding, copywriting, motion design, video editing, or growth marketing.
• Can obsess over specific problems, going deep to truly understand the nuances of a user need or system challenge.

Who You’ll Be Joining

You’ll join a thoughtful, ambitious team of designers and researchers shaping Multiverse’s product evolution. Designers work as true partners with PMs and Engineers. Strong foundations exist: Product First Principles, Design QA, Critique Culture, and a Design System — with varied adoption across squads. Based on the Nielsen Norman UX Maturity Model, we’re currently at Stage 4: Structured — systematic, but variably effective. We’re evolving toward a more craft-driven, scalable UX culture, and you’ll play a key role in raising maturity and consistency.

Growth Design at Multiverse

Growth Design at Multiverse is where UX craft meets performance mindset — using data-informed, hypothesis-driven design to unlock improvements across the full user journey. What defines a Growth Designer isn’t where they work in the funnel — but how they work.

Key traits:

• Fast, iterative cycles with tight feedback loops.
• Clear hypotheses, A/B testing, and KPI-driven thinking.
• Obsession with retention, activation, and conversion improvements.
• Comfort challenging assumptions—even "best practices".

Ready to shape the future of learning? Apply today.

Benefits

• Time off - 27 days holiday, plus 5 additional days off: 1 life event day, 2 volunteer days and 2 company-wide summer shut-down days and 8 bank holidays per year.
• No-cost and low-cost health and wellbeing options, including medical insurance, medical cashback, Gympass and online mental health resources.
• Access to cost-saving schemes that include our Cyclescheme, Techscheme & Workplace Nursery Scheme.
• Security for the future with life insurance through AIG and access to our pension scheme.
• Perks: quarterly team socials and winter parties, hybrid working, work from abroad scheme, and more!

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We’re an equal opportunities employer. And proud of it. Every applicant and employee is afforded the same opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. This will never change.