Over the past 10 years, our work has expanded beyond traditional service and product design in the social sector, and we are now regularly working hand-in-hand with communities and local organizations to design interventions in service of more equitable outcomes. Some examples include launching an incubator in Kenya for girl-led solutions to reproductive health, working with communities in Southern Dallas to improve access to quality health care, and working with refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities in the US to ensure everyone has access to reliable information about COVID-19. We’re currently looking for a Design Director to join our team who can help us continue to evolve our practice of design, with a focus on equity, participatory design, and social justice. You will report directly to a member of our Executive Team, working closely with our CEO, senior leaders, and cohort of fellow Design Directors across our San Francisco, New York, and Nairobi studios.

This would be a good role for you if you have a background in participatory design, community organizing, social work, policy and advocacy, liberation psychology, or any other field where you’ve applied equity and justice frameworks in your work. You’ll be joining a diverse, multidisciplinary team that is passionate about these topics, and about transforming our organization—and the field of design more broadly—to a more anti-racist and anti-colonialist practice. Your role will be essential in helping assess where our teams have been both successful and challenged in the practice of designing for equity, and in co-creating and formalizing structures and best practices to spread throughout our organization.

Design Directors at IDEO.org are involved in the work in a number of ways. Our ideal candidate has a breadth of experience, and can easily transition between a mode of guiding and mentorship to directly helping designing services and experiences alongside our teams and community partners.

Over the past 10 years, our work has expanded beyond traditional service and product design in the social sector, and we are now regularly working hand-in-hand with communities and local organizations to design interventions in service of more equitable outcomes. Some examples include launching an incubator in Kenya for girl-led solutions to reproductive health, working with communities in Southern Dallas to improve access to social benefits, and building a collective of leaders to advance health equity in the U.S.. We’re currently looking for an Executive Design Director to join our team who can grow, lead, and mentor our design teams. You will report directly to the CEO and serve on IDEO.org’s executive leadership team.

This role would be a fit for you if you are passionate about growing and nurturing creative talent and teams and have the ability to advance our practice of design, through a lens of equity, systems change, and co-design methodologies. You're excited to demonstrate, inspire, and model creativity, inclusivity, and rigor in order to build impactful solutions. Your love and experience of mentoring designers, building community, and identifying opportunities to support people's growth and development, are all in service of your ability to build an inclusive culture that fosters a strong sense of belonging for all.

Your role will focus on defining creative excellence in the work IDEO.org does out of its New York and San Francisco studios and you will work with the Executive Design Director in Nairobi and the Chief Marketing Officer to define and communicate creative excellence across IDEO.org. You will do this by leading a team of Design Directors, building the design community in the U.S., and rolling up your sleeves to work alongside designers on projects.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Partnerships Lead to join our New York City studio, starting this fall. As part of a dynamic and multi-disciplinary team, you’ll help IDEO.org build and maintain partnerships within our US Portfolio, which focuses on designing for the needs of children and families impacted by structural discrimination with a lens toward fighting poverty and inequality in America—its root causes and its effects. Our work spans several issue areas, from transforming early learning to advancing health equity to creating financial inclusivity.

As a lead contact with many of our partners and collaborators, you will be responsible for identifying new opportunities, pursuing the right partners, bringing in the business, creating great transitions for our teams who work on these engagements, and maintaining long-term relationships. You will engage with a broad set of players in the social sector—from large-scale funders and foundations to government agencies to smaller grassroots organizations and social entrepreneurs across the country to build relationships and develop new opportunities. You will support design teams on the ground and ensure that the solutions we create lead to real and lasting impact in the lives of the people we’re designing with.

We are hiring a Director of Finance and Administration in our San Francisco or New York studio. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer (COO), you will lead the company’s finance function, ensuring IDEO.org has a long-term financial strategy, and highly effective and accurate accounting and reporting. You will also supervise key operations functions including compliance and technology.