Apply to be a mentor

Wanted: UX Research Mentors & UX Design Mentors for our Beta tech platform.

Type of Job: This is a consultative job starting January 2022. You can expect to mentor UX, UI, and other design students on a weekly basis, no different than a tutor would mentor his/her/their students, depending on your availability. This job is 100% remote.

We are launching a mentorship platform in 2022, but until then, we invite you to join our beta MVP version where we hand match you with a mentee.

Process:

You can apply and expect to hear from us within 1 week. You would meet with 1 of our designers to do an interview about becoming a mentor. Once approved, we would create a profile highlighting your skills, teaching expertise, and work history. After that, Ideate Labs handles all the marketing to find you mentees to teach on a suitable basis. All mentorship is remote, and done at a time that is most convenient for you and the mentee. You can name a price per hour you like the best, but we recommend starting at the very least at $70 per hour.

Compensation:

$70+ per hour, depending on experience level of mentor, and your goals.

Qualifications:

Currently the mentorship is open to designers in USA only. (We will expand to international in 2022).

  • Minimum of 3-5 years of experience as a UX researcher or UX designer.

  • UX Research Mentors:

    • Expertise with conducting discovery research for new products and new product development (i.e., writing an interview guide, running interviews)

    • Experience with scoping MVP or the minimum viable product (i.e., what are the core user needs, what are the core features to design).

    • Experience with research synthesis and affinity clustering, ideation, mapping UX workflows, sketching, and wire framing.

  • UX Design Mentors:

    • Expertise with building a design system from scratch (i.e., style guide, atomic design, templates)

    • Experience with scoping MVP or minimum viable product (i.e., wireframes, UX workflows, IA of product).

    • Experience with putting together a prototype (Figma).

Every student has different needs. We take time to personalize our approach to each student to deliver course materials in a way that makes it accessible to them. Our mission is to make UI UX design accessible to all, especially women, minorities and immigrants.