Global impact
Coaching and tools reaching students in 53 countries.
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Product + Education Systems Designer
Maina Ibn Mohammed
I design coaching systems, AI tools, and employer experiences that help global students move with confidence.
Senior Product Designer and UX Strategist building AI-powered student success and career mobility systems.
0Coaching sessionsAcross undergraduate cohorts
0CountriesStudents supported worldwide
0Monthly AI usersAcross career tools
0Admin time savedThrough AI + system design
Each project shows the operating context, my role, the system constraints, and the outcome. The throughline: turn education-to-work problems into shipped workflows, scalable services, and measurable support.
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Coaching workflow redesign
How I turned global student support into a repeatable coaching system without making it feel generic.
02
AI-assisted career tooling
How I translated repeated advising judgment into AI-assisted resume, LinkedIn, and cover-letter review workflows.
03
Career-connected employer experiences
How I designed employer engagement programs and site visits that turned abstract career exploration into proximity and proof.
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Credentials + Field Work
Learning never stops.
Formal AI strategy training, higher-education operating experience, and community leadership outside the campus walls.
MIT Sloan School of Management · Emeritus
AI Strategy and Leadership Program: Thriving in the New World of AI
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Minerva University
Minerva University
Partnerships and Program Manager
Employer partnerships, program design, global curriculum, and student development across a high-context learning environment.
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Lighthouse Foundation
Lighthouse Foundation · Founder
International nonprofit leadership and community development
Community-centered work serving children and families across Nigeria and the United States through education, care, and local leadership.
See the children we serve →What I Work On
Product design for the messy middle between education and work.
My strongest work sits where screens, services, people, and operations meet: student success, career services, AI-powered workflows, employer experience, and workforce development.
AI-powered learner support
Designing internal tools, review flows, and human-in-the-loop systems that make career support faster without making it colder.
Workflow redesign
Mapping where staff time disappears, then rebuilding the operating model so high-context coaching gets protected.
Student success systems
Turning fragmented learner support into clear journeys, rituals, touchpoints, and decision flows.
Career mobility programs
Designing employer-facing experiences that move students from abstract advice into rooms, relationships, and real pathways.
Case Studies
Impact snapshots first. Process after.
Hiring teams should not have to hunt for the signal. Each case opens with scope and outcomes, then shows discovery, strategy, rollout, and what changed.
How I redesigned student support into a repeatable coaching system.
Students were navigating identity, career decisions, and global transitions at speed. The work was emotional, practical, and hard to scale without losing the human center.
Discovery
Listened across hundreds of student conversations to identify recurring blockers: uncertainty, hidden rules, confidence gaps, and decision fatigue.
Strategy
Created a four-stage developmental coaching framework with clearer session goals, tracking rhythms, and repeatable intervention points.
Rollout
Turned coaching from ad hoc advice into a guided progression that still gave every student room to feel personally understood.
650+documented coaching sessions
53countries represented
99.6%attendance across sessions
How I built AI-assisted career tools for 200+ monthly student users.
Resume reviews, LinkedIn audits, and cover letter edits were high-value but repetitive. Students needed faster feedback, and staff time needed to move toward deeper coaching.
Problem
Students often waited for support on materials that could be improved through structured first-pass feedback.
System
Translated repeated coaching judgement into rubrics, prompts, review flows, and lightweight AI-assisted tooling.
Adoption
Freed advising capacity for the conversations where human nuance mattered most.
200+monthly student users
85%admin time reduction
3core review workflows
How I turned employer engagement into career-connected student experiences.
Career advice becomes real when students can see the rooms, meet the people, ask the questions, and imagine themselves inside the work.
Discovery
Mapped student curiosity to Bay Area organizations and built outreach around mutual learning, not transactional networking.
Design
Created visit formats, prep rituals, and facilitation moves that helped students show up with context and confidence.
Scale
Built a repeatable partnership engine across two semesters with every session reaching capacity.
12fully booked visits
148+student participants
100%capacity across sessions
About
I know what it feels like to cross systems that were not built with you in mind.
I grew up in Nigeria, came to the United States for school, and built my career around one recurring question: how do you help people move through unfamiliar systems without making them feel small?
That question became coaching frameworks, employer experience programs, AI-powered career tools, and a lifelong commitment to building infrastructure that keeps the human being visible.
What I designStudent success systems, AI-powered workflows, career services tools, employer experience programs, and service blueprints.
Where I fitSenior Product Designer, UX Strategist, Service Designer, AI in education, career mobility, and workforce development teams.
How I workUser research, journey mapping, stakeholder alignment, workflow redesign, prototyping, facilitation, adoption, and measurement.
What I bringWarmth, stage presence, cross-cultural fluency, product judgment, and unusually high ownership.
Writing + Thought Leadership
The work is also a point of view.
Recruiters should not only see what I made. They should see how I think about students, AI, systems, and dignity.
Designing humane coaching systems with AI
How automation can protect human attention instead of replacing it.
Follow on LinkedInWhat global students need before they need advice
Belonging, translation, confidence, and access come before polished career materials.
Read future notesCareer services as product infrastructure
A practical lens for building systems that scale without making students feel processed.
Invite me to speakContact
Let us build something that helps people cross the gap.
Open to Senior Product Designer, Lead Product Designer, UX Strategist, Service Designer, and product strategy roles across AI in education, student success, career mobility, employer experience, and workforce development. Bay Area preferred. Remote open. H-1B transfer required.