Lead UI/UX Designer volunteer opportunity at iLevelUP: unpaid work with UI/UX Team. This is a fully remote role.
Lead UI/UX Designer: remote volunteer opportunity
Guide a coherent design experience across iLevelUP web and mobile interfaces. Bring user needs, accessible patterns, and useful prototypes into a shared design process.
Fully remote | Unpaid volunteer | United States
About iLevelUP
iLevelUP is a free, AI-powered, game-based learning experience being developed by Believe in Me to help young people explore education and career possibilities and build self-confidence. The product is in limited beta. The learner is the main character, and iLevelUP is the guide.
Lead UI/UX Designer role overview
As an iLevelUP Lead UI/UX Designer, you will contribute practical expertise to a nonprofit education product in limited beta. Guide a coherent design experience across iLevelUP web and mobile interfaces. Bring user needs, accessible patterns, and useful prototypes into a shared design process.
You will work with the relevant team to agree on priorities, review progress, and document decisions. Because the product is still developing, clear handoffs and useful feedback matter.
What you will own
Your contribution centers on the responsibilities below. First, understand the current work and the needs of your collaborators. Next, agree on a manageable scope with the team lead. Then, share progress and raise blockers early. Finally, document the decisions that your teammates need for the next step.
Lead UI/UX Designer responsibilities
- Lead the design of intuitive and engaging user interfaces for both web and mobile versions of the iLevelUP app.
- Collaborate with the project team to understand user needs and translate them into innovative design solutions.
- Create and iterate on wireframes, user flows, and prototypes to explore and communicate design concepts.
- Conduct user research and usability testing to gather feedback and refine designs.
- Work closely with developers to ensure accurate implementation of designs and maintain design consistency across the platform.
Early deliverables
- First, review the current user interface and product design work and identify useful next steps with your team lead.
- Next, agree on an initial deliverable, its review criteria, and the people who need to contribute.
- Finally, complete a reviewable piece of work and document what the next contributor needs to know.
Lead UI/UX Designer required qualifications
- Proven experience as a UI/UX Designer, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design skills and previous projects.
- Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, or similar.
- Strong understanding of responsive design principles and experience designing for mobile platforms.
- Knowledge of user-centered design methodologies and usability principles.
- Ability to conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions.
- Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts and rationale to team members and stakeholders.
- A passion for education and a commitment to the mission of supporting young learners.
Lead UI/UX Designer helpful experience
- Related education, nonprofit, or volunteer project experience can help you understand the context of the work.
- In addition, examples of clear documentation and remote collaboration are useful to share with your application.
How we work
Work with UI/UX Team through approved project tools. In practice, share concise updates, ask for the context you need, and keep decisions in the agreed workspace. For example, explain what you completed, what needs review, and what is blocking the next step. In addition, protect learner and project information when preparing examples or discussing your work.
Why volunteer with iLevelUP
- Contribute to a nonprofit education product at a stage when your decisions can shape the learner experience.
- Own a meaningful body of work and collaborate across education, design, engineering, and student support.
- Develop work samples and share approved contributions in your portfolio while respecting project and learner confidentiality.
Time commitment and location
This is a fully remote, unpaid volunteer opportunity. Weekly availability, meeting times, project scope, and the duration of your commitment will be agreed during onboarding. The published eligibility area for this opening is the United States.
How to apply
First, use the Believe in Me volunteer application to share your résumé or professional profile, relevant experience, availability, and a brief statement of interest. Before submitting, remove personal, confidential, and proprietary information from any work samples.
For the Lead UI/UX Designer opening, explain a relevant project. For example, describe the problem you addressed and your own contribution. If you are still building experience, describe how your current skills connect with the listed responsibilities. Next, the team will review your application and discuss fit and expectations with selected applicants.
We welcome applicants from varied backgrounds and pathways. Before applying, review this role’s required and helpful experience. Also, if you need an accommodation during the application or interview process, use iLevelUP’s contact page.
Role details
- Role: Lead UI/UX Designer
- Program: iLevelUP, a Believe in Me initiative
- Employment type: Unpaid volunteer
- Workplace: Fully remote
- Applicant eligibility: United States
- Team: UI/UX Team
- Company address: 107 Spring Street, 2nd Floor, Seattle, WA 98104
- Job ID: 725
This is a fully remote, unpaid volunteer opportunity. Weekly availability, meeting times, project scope, and the duration of your commitment will be agreed during onboarding. The published eligibility area for this opening is the United States.