Nonprofit
Published 3 months ago
Remote Volunteer Lead UI/UX Designer — iLevelUP
Remote, Volunteer must be in United States
Details
Time Commitment:
Flexible
Commitment Details:
Approximately 5–10 hours per month for at least six months, plus required onboarding and confidentiality commitments.
Recurrence:
Recurring
Volunteers Needed:
2
Cause Areas:
Children & Youth, Economic Development, Education, Financial Literacy & Personal Finance, Job & Workplace
Benefits:
Training Provided
Participation Requirements:
Background Check, Attend Orientation
Age Requirement:
25+
Other Requirements:
Successful screening plus confidentiality, privacy, accessibility, youth research ethics, consent, safeguarding, design governance, approved publication, and production-access training.
Description
Help iLevelUP guide a coherent, accessible, and evidence-based product-design practice for an educational platform serving underserved youth and young people.
The volunteer Lead UI/UX Designer will coordinate design direction, standards, reviews, and contributor workflows across research, experience design, interface design, content, accessibility, and development.
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
This is a remote, recurring role. Expect approximately 5–10 hours per month for at least six months.
Questions: volunteers@ilevelup.app
iLevelUP
107 Spring Street, 2nd Floor
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 414-8043
Location
Volunteer must be in United States
Associated Location
Seattle, WA, USA
