Remote Volunteer Lead UI/UX Designer — iLevelUP

Responsibilities

• Establish an approved design roadmap, critique process, file structure, decision log, and handoff standards
• Connect product goals and research evidence to journeys, architecture, interaction patterns, visual systems, and prototypes
• Maintain accessible design-system principles and reusable patterns
• Mentor volunteer designers and coordinate work without overriding product, program, accessibility, or safeguarding owners
• Facilitate design reviews and resolve inconsistencies through documented rationale
• Ensure research plans, participant contact, consent, incentives, and data handling receive proper approval
• Partner with engineering and quality teams to verify implementation
• Track open questions, usability risks, accessibility issues, and design debt
• Avoid dark patterns, unsupported claims, unnecessary data collection, and unapproved publication

Qualifications

• Senior experience in product, UX, UI, service, or interaction design
• Strong design leadership, systems thinking, research synthesis, accessibility, prototyping, and developer collaboration
• Experience mentoring distributed contributors and maintaining design systems
• Familiarity with youth-centered, trauma-informed, privacy-conscious education technology is helpful
• At least 25 years old and willing to complete screening and confidentiality requirements