At Mentor Collective, we believe human connection is the key to student success. We partner with higher education institutions to deliver transformative mentoring experiences.
We are entering an exceptionally exciting phase of growth: launching a brand-new product, refreshing our visual brand, and actively integrating AI and agentic workflows into how we build and deliver software. We operate as a nimble, highly collaborative team with a supportive engineering culture, an ambitious product vision, and a genuinely rewarding market to serve.
About the role:
This is a high-impact, hands-on role where your ideas will directly shape the end-to-end user experience. You’ll thrive here if you love rapid prototyping, asking great questions, experimenting with new technologies (including AI), and bringing fresh, creative ideas to the table.
What You'll Do:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
You are welcome at Mentor Collective
Mentor Collective welcomes any and all people, embracing their age, race, gender identity, sexual orientation and expression, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, nationality, culture, religion, and perspective. We want to create an inclusive and equitable work environment that reflects the very students and universities we serve.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, caregiver status, gender identity or expression, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, marital status, veteran status, military status, housing status, sexual orientation, or any other factor determined to be an unlawful basis for such decisions by federal, state, or local statutes.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of professional UX or Product Design experience in a web or SaaS environment
- Portfolio demonstrating an end-to-end UX process
- Strong understanding of user-centered design, information architecture, user flows, and usability heuristics
- Advanced Figma or equivalent prototyping skills
- Ability to balance user experience, technical feasibility, development scope, and business objectives
- Strong communication and ability to articulate design decisions and facilitate brainstorming
- Hands-on experience with modern design and AI tools, including Claude Design and Figma
- Proactive, self-motivated approach to identifying product and business improvements
- Experience with or strong eagerness to learn WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA accessibility standards
- Background designing high-engagement consumer-facing web or mobile applications
- Experience in higher education, EdTech, or multi-stakeholder SaaS platforms
- Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and design systems
Mentor Collective Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mentor Collective and has not been reviewed or approved by Mentor Collective.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes an employer‑covered medical plan option, dental and vision choices, and access to One Medical, Talkspace, and travel support for specialized reproductive and gender‑affirming care. These elements broaden access and reduce friction in everyday care.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave at full base pay is offered on a gender‑neutral basis, with adoption coverage and flexible return‑to‑work options. Fertility and family‑building support via a Kindbody partnership and childcare benefits further strengthen family assistance.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes flexible PTO with a recommended minimum, company holidays, and a company‑wide winter break. This structure sustains rest and recharge across the year.
Mentor Collective Insights
What We Do
Mentor Collective is the premier Mentorship Operating System, enabling organizations to embed mentorship ecosystems into their institutions using their unique goals and data. Our proven approach supports learner and employee success, improves retention, and builds stronger talent pipelines, transforming the fragmented journey from education to meaningful employment. Backed by the most extensive dataset on mentorship outcomes and student and employee wellness, our platform strengthens authentic human connections at scale. We identify where relationships need support, then deliver data-informed interventions that grow robust social networks and measurable outcomes. With over a decade of results and over 500,000 mentorships across 200+ partnerships, we’ve driven significant gains in confidence, career clarity, and engagement. Our real-time insights help organizations act proactively, making mentorship a durable engine for belonging and opportunity. We aren’t just about matching people; we are about moving them forward. Together, we can build the pathways to success that every person deserves. Join us in this vital mission.
Why Work With Us
We’re a collective of bold thinkers and builders who lead with integrity, act with purpose, and embrace change as opportunity. Empowered by cutting-edge tools and grounded in shared values, we tackle tough challenges together — turning vision into impact and shaping what’s next.
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