IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Senior Communications Designer to work as a part of a multi­disciplinary team in our San Francisco studio. You’ll be part graphic designer, systems thinker, and visual storyteller collaborating with other creative leaders across IDEO.org. You’ll bring design excellence to projects ranging from crafting beautiful storytelling for partner solutions to building up and managing solution, brand and design assets. You’ll work across a range of mediums spanning digital design and print.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Design Lead to join our San Francisco studio. 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.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for an Industrial Designer to join our San Francisco studio. You'll join multidisciplinary design teams to turn human insights into tangible products and services that improve the lives of low-income people.

Your approach to industrial design includes scrappy hands-on prototyping, a solid understanding of manufacturing processes, a good handle on CAD, and top notch visualization skills. You’ll often be developing new services and businesses on a design team, and your knack for tangible thinking will help bring ideas to life for people around the world. You’re happiest solving problems that involve your head, heart, and hands. You’re early in your career as a designer, and want to take the foundational skills you’ve learned becoming fluent in the full design process—from research to strategy to implementation.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Partnerships Lead to join our San Francisco studio, starting this summer. As part of a dynamic and multi-disciplinary team, you’ll help IDEO.org build and maintain partnerships within our Economic Prosperity Practice, which focuses on building financial resilience for low-income people, whether through employment, financial products, or tools like income generating technologies for farmers. 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 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 3-month paid internship with the Amplify team to advance IDEO.org’s learning by: 1) conducting primary research and secondary analysis to identify the program’s major successes and failures, as well as utilizing the data to 2) determine program elements that led to these outcomes.

This internship is a great opportunity if you’re interested in the interplay between design and international development, and want to build a career in M&E or development research more generally.  You’ll collaborate with the Program Director, the Director of Impact, and other members of the Amplify team. You’ll communicate directly with our grantees and our donors as a part of the research process.

IDEO.org has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Design Lead to join our vibrant New York studio. We are looking for an experienced creative leader that is passionate about making real and meaningful impact through design, and has a wealth of experience in visual UX, UI, and developing digital experiences across a variety of mediums.

From our multi-disciplinary design studio, you’ll tackle complex, poverty-related challenges alongside a rockstar team of builders and thinkers from different backgrounds. With frequent trips that will take you to Africa, South Asia, and across the USA, you’ll lead and collaborate with a team of designers focused on turning human insights into tangible products, services, and consumer experiences, and help our partner organizations carry those designs forward around the world.

IDEO.org’s Business Designers are a part of multi-disciplinary design teams, blending business strategy and creativity— helping our clientspartners across the developing world bring new offerings and ventures to market. With frequent trips that will take you throughout Africa, you’ll be part design researcher, part strategist, and part operational guru, working on a team alongside other builders and thinkers from different backgrounds to solve some of the continent's toughest problems.

Business acumen is necessary. Ability to execute is a must. Demonstrated passion for solving challenges facing the world’s most impoverished communities is absolutely critical.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Design Lead to join our new studio in Nairobi, Kenya. Design Leads 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 Nairobi has an opportunity for an experienced Design Researcher who’s curious, inquisitive, and adept at uncovering human needs and translating them into opportunities for design. As part of a multidisciplinary design team, you’ll be responsible for planning and conducting qualitative research with diverse communities, and then helping to develop solutions to the needs you discover.