Amerit ConsultingRemote
UX Project Manager ** 100% Remote **
United States of America
Contract
8 hours ago
$50 - $54 USD
No H1B
Key skills
UX Project ManagementUX Design CollaborationUX Research CollaborationContent Strategy CollaborationAgile MethodologiesJiraSmartsheetsFigmaFigJamStakeholder ManagementProject ManagementAgileScrumLeadershipResource PlanningProduct ManagementCommunication
About this role
Amerit Consulting is a fast-growing staffing and consulting firm seeking a UX Project Manager to lead the delivery of UX initiatives. The role involves managing project schedules, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring effective communication and stakeholder management throughout the project lifecycle.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end to end delivery of UX initiatives across design, content, research workstreams
- Translate business and product objectives into clear UX scopes, project plans, timelines, and milestones
- Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, dependencies, and delivery plans
- Track progress, risks, and issues; proactively communicate tradeoffs and mitigation strategies
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering/IT, Marketing, and Operations to align UX work with roadmaps and release plans
- Participate in agile ceremonies (scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups) and bring in UX resources at the right moments
- Serve as the primary UX point of contact for delivery, sequencing, and capacity planning conversations
- Support UX leadership with resource planning and capacity management across multiple initiatives
- Provide effort and cost estimates for UX work
- Balance UX demand across competing priorities while protecting critical discovery and design activities
- Clearly communicate timelines, dependencies, and impacts to leadership and partners
- Facilitate alignment discussions when scope, time, or resources shift
- Advocate for UX best practices while aligning with enterprise delivery constraints
- Ensure consistent documentation, reporting, and communication of UX project status
Requirements:
- 3–5 years of experience supporting or leading projects within UX, product, or digital delivery teams
- Hands on experience working with UX designers, researchers, and content strategists
- Must have excellent communication skills
- Strong project and stakeholder management skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Design, Human Centered Design, or a related field
- UX certification great to have
- Nielson Norman Group certificate or similar
- Software Skills: Jira, Smartsheets, Figma, FigJam