Product / UX Designer - (Remote)

Mentor Collective is a company focused on enhancing student success through transformative mentoring experiences. They are seeking a creative Product / UX Designer who will champion UX/UI design, collaborate with various teams, and contribute to the development of their new product while integrating innovative technologies like AI.

Responsibilities:

• End-to-End UX/UI Design: Translate product strategy and customer insights into intuitive user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and polished front-end UI designs
• Rapid Prototyping & Testing: Create high-fidelity interactive prototypes to validate concepts internally with stakeholders and externally with higher education partners and students
• Research Collaboration & Application: Partner on customer research, synthesize feedback, and translate complex user needs into simple, elegant product solutions
• Bring the Brand to Life: Help apply and evolve Mentor Collective’s brand identity across our digital product experience
• Design System Stewardship: Maintain and expand our UI component library to ensure design consistency and efficient handoffs to engineering
• AI & Workflow Innovation: Actively experiment with AI tools and emerging technology to accelerate design workflows, explore new UI patterns, and elevate our product experience

Requirements:

• 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