Advance Auto Parts · 12 hours ago
Sr. Manager, UI/UX Designer
Raleigh, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
8+ years expAdvance Auto Parts is seeking a Senior Manager of UX/UI Design to lead a high-performing design team and shape the future of user experience across their retail ecosystem. This role involves championing user-centered design, optimizing user experiences, and collaborating with various teams to drive a unified experience strategy across multiple platforms.
AutomotiveRetail
Responsibilities
Build, mentor, and coach a team of UX/UI designers with clear expectations, feedback, and career development
Foster a culture of creativity, accountability, experimentation, and continuous improvement
Establish and maintain design standards, workflows, rituals, and scalable design operations
Embed user research across discovery, design, and validation
Translate insights from omnichannel retail experiences—store, curbside, e‑commerce, mobile, POS—into actionable design opportunities
Communicate usability findings and experience insights to influence product decisions
Define and evangelize a UX vision that enables common experiences across web, mobile app, POS, B2B platforms, and internal tools
Partner with product, engineering, marketing, and CX to align on vision, priorities, and seamless execution
Support discovery efforts such as journey mapping, service design, experience audits, and opportunity assessments
Collaborate closely with product and technology leaders on roadmaps, resourcing, and sequencing
Partner with analytics teams to interpret behavioral data and generate design insights
Engage store operations and field teams to understand associate workflows and pain points
Review and critique work to ensure usability, accessibility, cohesion, and brand alignment
Implement and evolve scalable design systems for both customer-facing and enterprise-facing products
Manage and interpret ADA compliance audits in partnership with product teams
Define and track UX and research metrics tied to user and business outcomes
Communicate design impact through insights, prototypes, narratives, storytelling, and measurable results
Apply A/B and multivariate testing to validate design hypotheses and guide iteration
Qualification
Required
8+ years of UX/UI design experience, including 2+ years in a leadership or people‑management role
Experience leading UX across complex multi‑platform ecosystems (web, app, POS, B2B, internal tools)
Strong understanding of user research methods, accessibility standards, information architecture, and interaction design
Experience with rapid concept sketching, wireframing, prototyping, and MVP deliverables while having the longer view of how to achieve the desired outcome
Experience with e‑commerce, retail operations, or workflow‑heavy B2B or enterprise products
Ability to lead A/B testing programs and translate behavioral results into design improvements
Excellent communication, leadership, and cross‑functional influence skills
Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (Figma preferred, Sketch, Adobe, or similar), as well as Jira and Confluence
Preferred
Experience scaling design operations and design systems
Experience shaping UX strategy in large, matrixed organizations
Background in service design, journey mapping, or experience audits
Company
Advance Auto Parts
Advance Auto Parts is the largest automotive aftermarket parts provider in North America, serves both the professional installer.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.95B2025-07-28Post Ipo Debt· $1.95B
2001-11-29IPO
Leadership Team
Shane O'Kelly
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ryan Grimsland
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
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