{"id":18432,"date":"2017-06-19T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=18432"},"modified":"2017-06-19T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T18:40:07","slug":"job-design-lead-technology-at-ideo-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2017\/06\/19\/job-design-lead-technology-at-ideo-org\/","title":{"rendered":"JOB: Design Lead: Technology at IDEO.org"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Design Lead – Technology<\/h1>\n

at IDEO.org\u00a0<\/span>(View all jobs)<\/a><\/p>\n

New York, NY<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Company Description<\/h3>\n
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IDEO.org improves the lives of poor and vulnerable communities through design. To effect that change, we work directly with foundations, nonprofits, and social enterprises; create tools and resources that teach human-centered design; and influence the social sector with stories of human-centered design in action. IDEO.org works directly with organizations across a range of focus areas including health, financial services, gender equity, education, and agriculture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Job Description<\/h3>\n
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Position Summary<\/p>\n

IDEO.org has an opportunity for a Design Lead to join our New York studio. As part of a multi-disciplinary design team, you\u2019ll tackle complex, poverty-related challenges alongside other builders and thinkers from different backgrounds. With frequent trips that will take you to Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East, you\u2019ll lead and collaborate with a team of designers focused on turning human insights into tangible products, services, and consumer experiences, and help our partner organizations carry those designs forward.<\/p>\n

This particular Design Lead role is for a creative coder with demonstrated experience developing digital products and tools. You may have started your career in a traditional design discipline (graphic, industrial, etc) but you\u2019ve spent the last few years designing code.<\/p>\n

Leadership experience is a must. Interest in social justice is a given. Passion for craft is absolutely critical.<\/p>\n

You are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • A natural collaborator and a proven hands-on leader. You\u2019re at ease with multidisciplinary teams and can set strategic direction across interaction, product, space and service design.<\/li>\n
  • A believer that great design creates impact, both in it\u2019s ability to deliver needed solutions and delight through unexpected details.<\/li>\n
  • Skilled at turning human insights into concrete design concepts.<\/li>\n
  • Solution-focused and medium-agnostic, willing to step out of your core skill set or discipline to find the correct solution to a challenge.<\/li>\n
  • A systems thinker, and can logically visualize complex systems.<\/li>\n
  • Able to distinguish between \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cgreat\u201d work, and clearly articulate the difference.<\/li>\n
  • Knowledgeable about how to support other disciplines in their work and champion their success.<\/li>\n
  • Able to articulate the value of human-centered design through verbal and visual presentation.<\/li>\n
  • Cool with trial and error, and have experience prototyping and experimenting at different levels of fidelity.<\/li>\n
  • A designer at your core, and see bringing products and services to market as an important part of your process.<\/li>\n
  • Willing and able to travel internationally ~30% of the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    You have:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Experience designing interactive digital experiences, products, services, and systems across a range of platforms, including mobile technology, tailored to the needs of particular users and contexts.<\/li>\n
    • A background in one or more traditional design disciplines (interaction, visual communications, or service design preferred), with 6-8 years of work experience, ideally with some innovation consulting experience.<\/li>\n
    • Experience building prototypes and evolving digital and physical products throughout their life cycle.<\/li>\n
    • Created systems-level concepts by visualizing complex systems, user interaction flows, and beautiful user interface.<\/li>\n
    • Convey and present concepts through wireframes, flows, storyboards, and mockups.<\/li>\n
    • Fluency in the human-centered design process, from qualitative research and synthesis to ideation, prototyping, and implementation.<\/li>\n
    • Examples of your work creating impact out in the world.<\/li>\n
    • A credible portfolio with examples of digital products, services and systems that you helped create.<\/li>\n
    • Experience leading multi-disciplinary design teams.<\/li>\n
    • Insatiable curiosity and a passion for experimentation with new technology and design methodologies to build new solutions.<\/li>\n
    • Experience managing clients and partners\u2014from early stage companies to mature organizations.<\/li>\n
    • Experience creating quick and dirty prototypes as well as more refined deliverables.<\/li>\n
    • Fluency with visual design tools, such as Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Invision, etc.<\/li>\n
    • Experience or demonstrated interest in tackling poverty-related challenges.<\/li>\n
    • Cultural sensitivity, and an ability to connect easily with new people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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