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 Executive 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 Executive 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 Senior Impact Specialist to join our San Francisco studio. In this role you’ll be instrumental in helping us establish our evidence base for the ways in which a design-led approach to problem-solving can achieve impact at scale. You’ll work closely with design teams as we strengthen how we leverage data and measurement in the design process and ensure that we are learning what we need to optimize our services and products out in the world.