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 early career Accounts Payable Specialist to join our growing Finance team in San Francisco. As a part of the Global Core Team, you’ll support our Chief Financial Officer and Finance Lead in running our financial operations. 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 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 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 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.

We are seeking a talented behavioral scientist, with the depth of expertise and applied experience in social impact that will enable them to effectively integrate their approach within IDEO.org’s design process. The Fellow will be embedded with design teams, bringing the principles of behavioural science into research, ideation and measurement.

They will support designers with secondary evidence reviews, development of behavior change frameworks and theories of change, design of research tools, synthesis and insights. In contributing to design direction setting and solution development they will serve as a subject matter expert on effective behavioral intervention tactics, translating these into actionable recommendations. With the support of IDEO.org’s Director of Impact, they will take a lead role in development of measurement models for prototypes, bringing methodological and analytical rigor to experiments of increasing scale through the life of the program.

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.