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 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 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.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a highly motivated Administrative Assistant with a passion for effectively supporting an executive team of creative leaders. In this role, you’ll provide a high level of professional support for IDEO.org’s CEO and the New York studio Managing Directors. The Administrative Assistant will also help create amazing and engaging experiences for our New York studio community. This position is right for you if you have 3-5 years of experience in a fast-paced, support position, consider yourself a real go-getter willing to roll up your sleeves and get things done. An ideal candidate will understand what it means to provide excellent customer service, perhaps because they’ve had experience working in the service industry or have previously served as an Executive Assistant.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Design Research Lead to join our San Francisco studio. As a seasoned researcher, you’ll be responsible for two domains of expertise:

• • Ethnographic Research: 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.
  • Data-Augmented Design: Incorporating data science methods into a hybrid research process that considers micro and macro insights in synthesis and decision-making.
  • 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 business-savvy design thinker to join the New York studio this summer. Our studio works domestically and internationally on a range of urgent social impact goals from health equity in the US to digital identity for refugees around the world. This generative role requires a unique blend of real-world experience and theory, entrepreneurial zeal and boardroom polish. Design Interns work collaboratively, creatively, and flexibly within interdisciplinary teams and with our partners. If you love mapping complex systems, developing razor sharp strategies, telling compelling stories, and believe in the transformative power of design - this position is for you! Internships last between 6 to 12 weeks, beginning in June 2019. MBA students in their first year are highly encouraged to apply.

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a business-savvy design thinker to join the San Francisco studio this summer. As part of a multi-disciplinary design team, you’ll blur the lines between business strategy and creativity, helping to design new-to-world offers that are desirable for end-users as well as feasible and financially sustainable for the partner organization. You’ll be part strategist, part operational guru, and part creative problem solver. You’ll work alongside builders and thinkers from different backgrounds. Business acumen is a given. Demonstrated passion for solving challenges facing the world’s most impoverished communities is a must. If you love coming up with revolutionary business models, working in emerging economies, and believe in the transformative power of design - this position’s for you!