IDEO.org has an opportunity for an Interaction Designer to join our San Francisco studio. You’ll work with multi-disciplinary teams to tackle complex, poverty-related challenges alongside other builders and thinkers from various backgrounds. You’ll gain inspiration and empathy for the low-income people we seek to serve by conducting field research in East Africa and beyond. You’ll transform behavioral insights into new products, services, and experiences that we’ll design, prototype, and test—then help our partners take these new solutions to market.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Partnerships Lead to join our New York City studio, starting this summer. As part of a dynamic and multi-disciplinary team, you’ll help IDEO.org build and maintain partnerships within our US Equity Practice, which focuses on fighting poverty and inequality in America—its root causes and its effects. Our work spans several issue areas, from criminal justice reform to creating financial inclusivity.

While you may not be a trained designer, you’re eager to explore new ways of building solutions that meet the needs of those living in poor and vulnerable communities and you have a track record of creating new partnerships and expertise in a field relevant to IDEO.org’s Equity practice.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Design Lead to join our Nairobi studio. This person should be skilled in graphic or interaction design. As a Design Lead, you'll lead multidisciplinary design teams to turn human insights into tangible products and services that improve the lives of low-income people. You may have started your career as an interaction, industrial or communications designer, but by now you’re fluent in the full design process—from research to strategy to implementation—and comfortable leading teams through it.

Craft is a given. Leadership experience is a must. Passion for fighting global poverty is absolutely critical.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Design Strategy Lead to join our San Francisco studio. In this role, you'll lead multidisciplinary design teams through a rigorous process to integrate human-centered research insights, data science, and a systemic understanding of the contexts we work in, into the design of tangible products and services that improve the lives of low-income people. You will skillfully navigate the complex ecosystems we work within to ensure that our solutions can launch, scale and sustain in market in order to affect real change in the world. You may have built your career as a business designer, design strategist, or organizational designer, but by now you’re fluent in the full design process—from research to strategy to implementation—and comfortable leading teams through it. A depth of skill in your core craft is a given. Leadership experience is a must. Passion for fighting global poverty and inequality is absolutely critical.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a highly motivated Executive Assistant with a passion for effectively supporting an executive team of creative leaders. In this role, you’ll provide a high level of professional support for IDEO.org’s CEO and the New York studio Managing Directors. The Executive Assistant will also help create amazing and engaging experiences for our New York studio community. This position is right for you if you have 3-5 years of experience in a fast-paced, support position, consider yourself a real go-getter willing to roll up your sleeves and get things done. An ideal candidate will understand what it means to provide excellent customer service, perhaps because they’ve had experience working in the service industry or have previously served as an Executive Assistant.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Design Research Lead to join our San Francisco studio. As a seasoned researcher, you’ll be responsible for two domains of expertise:

• • Ethnographic Research: Planning and conducting qualitative research with diverse communities and synthesizing what you learn into crisp insights that set the direction for the design of new products and services that improve people’s lives.
  • Data-Augmented Design: Incorporating data science methods into a hybrid research process that considers micro and macro insights in synthesis and decision-making.
  • As a senior member of our design community, you’ll also lead projects—guiding a multidisciplinary team through the human-centered design process—from research through ideation, and ultimately, bringing new solutions to life.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Senior Impact Specialist to join our San Francisco studio. In this role you’ll be instrumental in helping us establish our evidence base for the ways in which a design-led approach to problem-solving can achieve impact at scale. You’ll work closely with design teams as we strengthen how we leverage data and measurement in the design process and ensure that we are learning what we need to optimize our services and products out in the world.

IDEO.org is looking for an energetic and highly motivated Studio Coordinator to run the daily operations of our San Francisco studio. As part of our dynamic team, you will wear multiple hats. In addition to ensuring our studio is running smoothly, you will play a critical role championing experience for our studio and providing administrative support to our Talent function. You will be a key member of our core team and you’ll gain significant exposure to organizational functions including HR and Operations. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys the dynamic nature of a fast-paced environment. This position is right for you if you are a real go-getter, willing to get your hands dirty and help with whatever tasks come your way, and have a sincere passion for creating meaningful experiences for people around you.

IDEO.org has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Human Resources professional to join our team in New York City! You are the ideal candidate if you thrive in a dynamic, creative environment and mix fun with rolling your sleeves up and getting a lot of great work done. Comfortable with ambiguous situations, you will collaborate with the Leadership Team to develop, manage, and ensure all aspects of the Human Resources function align with and contribute to the business objectives.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Partnership Lead to join our Nairobi studio. As part of a dynamic and multi-disciplinary team, you’ll help IDEO.org build and maintain partnerships within our Nairobi studio and develop the strategy for the type of work the studio will do going forward. This job goes beyond simply business development - you will be responsible for identifying opportunities, pursuing the right partners, bringing in the business, and creating great transitions for our teams who work on these engagements, including maintaining the relationships in the long run.

IDEO.org is has an opportunity for a Monitoring and Learning contractor to join a project team in Nairobi for a fixed-term contract of 5 months, from late May through September 2019. In this role you’ll be responsible for day-to-day management of field monitoring during set-up and implementation of the 8-week live prototype and subsequent activities to refine the program and its monitoring framework for scaled implementation.

IDEO.org is in search of a Campaign Manager for one of our cornerstone programs in Kenya. We’re designing a communications campaign to spread awareness about the importance of Early Childhood Development in Siaya County in partnership with the Siaya County Government and other local organizations. The Campaign Manager will be directly collaborating with one or more implementing partners on-the-ground and over the phone through having regular check-ins and answering their questions as needed.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Service Designer to join our New York studio. In this role, you'll design services rooted in the lives of clients and providers in diverse contexts, from the way volunteers deliver food aid to refugees to the way patients receive care by telehealth in New York City. You will skillfully navigate the complex ecosystems we work within to ensure that our solutions can launch, scale and sustain in market in order to affect real change in the world. There are many paths that lead here, and we’re excited about candidates with a wide array of past roles and experiences, from healthcare to architecture to strategy. The most important qualification is that you’ve had professional experience designing delightful, sustainable, and scalable services centered in the needs of real people.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Graphic Design Intern to join our New York studio this summer (June- August). The intern will work with teams across the organization on a range of projects and mediums—from print design, to hand sketches, to digital interaction design. This may include preparation of documents and presentations for key meetings, assets that support our project deliverables, or storytelling pieces.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Film/Video Intern to join our San Francisco studio this summer. The intern will work with teams across the organization on a range of projects and formats—from short stories, to field research interviews, to documentary style pieces. This may include international travel, creating assets that support our project deliverables and helping with storytelling efforts related to IDEO.org’s mission as a nonprofit. You will be joining multidisciplinary teams working on some of the biggest challenges affecting marginalized communities around the world, learning new design and storytelling skills, and working in a deeply collaborative culture.