IDEO.org is in search of a Gender Specialist who will spearhead our gender research and infuse gender equity thinking into our multidisciplinary design teams.

The Gender Specialist will ensure that our approach to this work applies the most up-to-date global perspectives on gender rights and empowerment and pushes us to be gender transformative in the solutions we create. They will be embedded with the design team through the design research phase, providing input input on the theoretical, ethical, methodological, and analytical frameworks that characterize our inquiry and immersion activities. They will join the design team in field to provide real-time support to design activities, as well as conducting additional expert or user interviews where more specific gender expertise is required. We are looking for someone who is a hands-on researcher, with experience in translating insights into tangible recommendations for real-world solutions.

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 Senior Design Research Lead to join our New York City studio. As a seasoned researcher, you’ll be responsible for 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. 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 Program Coordinator to join our Prosperity Practice in San Francisco. A critical part of this role is supporting the Managing Director of the Prosperity Practice. By providing administrative support for the Managing Director, you are effectively driving IDEO.org’s impact in the world. You love working in a fast-paced start-up environment and are adept at wearing many hats at any given moment. You’re a quick learner, enthusiastic, detail-oriented and collaborative—ready to roll up your sleeves and join a team that’s helping to bring human-centered design to some of the world’s toughest challenges.

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 proactive, detail-oriented Program Coordinator to join our Global Health Practice in San Francisco. As part of a dynamic and multi-disciplinary design studio, you’ll provide administrative and operational support to the program director, design teams and partnerships lead. We’re looking for a highly organized, collaborative and creative person who enjoys bringing clarity to chaos and has an appetite for learning on your feet in a fast-paced environment. This position is a great fit for someone early in their career who is passionate about design, and its potential to improve the lives of people in poor and vulnerable communities around the world.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Sr. Accountant with non-profit experience to join our growing Finance team in San Francisco. The Accounting Lead will be the in house expert on technical accounting issues that apply to our organization. As a part of the Global Core Team, you will oversees the day-to-day financial accounting management of the organization, general ledger activity, payroll, the month-end closing process, financial reporting, cash management, and overall compliance.

The position reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer, supervises the Accounts Payable Specialist, and involves significant interaction with the other members of management, core teams and global studios. This individual will also be responsible for coordinating the annual audit conducted by IDEO.org’s outside auditors as well as any audits required by our donors.

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.