Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mentor Collective partners with higher education institutions to deliver transformative mentoring experiences and is launching a new product while integrating AI and agentic workflows into software development. The Product / UX Designer will champion UX/UI, shaping the end-to-end user experience through research, prototyping, user-centered design, brand application, design system stewardship, and AI-enabled workflow innovation.
Responsibilities
- Translate product strategy and customer insights into intuitive user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and polished front-end UI designs
- Create high-fidelity interactive prototypes to validate concepts internally with stakeholders and externally with higher education partners and students
- Partner on customer research, synthesize feedback, and translate complex user needs into simple, elegant product solutions
- Help apply and evolve Mentor Collective’s brand identity across our digital product experience
- Maintain and expand our UI component library to ensure design consistency and efficient handoffs to engineering
- Actively experiment with AI tools and emerging technology to accelerate design workflows, explore new UI patterns, and elevate our product experience
Skills
- * **3+ years of professional UX/Product Design experience** in a web or SaaS environment (portfolio required showing your end-to-end UX process, not just final screens)
- * **Strong UX foundation:** Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, information architecture, user flows, and usability heuristics
- * **Prototyping Mastery:** Advanced skills in Figma (or equivalent tools) to build and present interactive, testable prototypes
- * **Product-Minded Thinking:** Ability to balance ideal user experiences with technical feasibility, development scope, and business objectives
- * **Exceptional Communication:** Outstanding ability to articulate the "why" behind your design decisions, facilitate brainstorming sessions both internally and with customers, and ask insightful questions
- * **Tech & AI Enthusiast:** Genuine curiosity and hands-on experience using modern design and AI tools—specifically leveraging tools like Claude Design alongside Figma to rapidly build prototypes, maintain scalable design systems, and generate dev-ready assets for engineering
- * **Proactive Mindset:** Self-motivated go-getter who naturally looks beyond assigned feature cards to identify improvements and opportunities within the product and the overall business
- * **Accessibility Awareness:** Experience with—or a strong eagerness to learn—web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA) to ensure our digital products are inclusive, usable, and compliant for all higher education students and staff
- * Background designing high-engagement consumer-facing web or mobile applications
- * Experience in Higher Education, EdTech, or multi-stakeholder SaaS platforms
- * Basic understanding of front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS, basic design systems) to collaborate smoothly with developers
Benefits
- 100% remote company
- 5 Medical plans - all PPO plans
- 1 Medical plan option is 100% employer-covered (employee-only tier)
- 5 Dental/Vision plans
- HSA, FSA, Dependent FSA options
- Talkspace mental health therapy covered at no cost to the employee
- Annual travel benefits to seek out-of-state care from specialists for reproductive and gender-affirming care
- One Medical membership covered at no cost to the employee
- Flexible PTO with a minimum requirement for employees
- 401k benefits + Company Match
- Stipend for WFH office setup
- Opportunities for professional development & career advancement
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