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 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 is in search of a Project Manager for one of our cornerstone programs, with the objective to increase participation by women in the digital financial services ecosystem. The Project Manager is the day-to-day person that teams will turn to for support, the person who external partners will reach out to with questions, and who will ensure seamless operations for the Women + Money program. Sometimes the Project Manager might be organizing events in Lagos, Nigeria, collecting prototyping materials for teams, or curating a process to select a data science partner for our work. This person is proactive, engaged, and ready to roll up their sleeves and get to work!