Remote Volunteer Lead UI/UX Designer — iLevelUP

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