About You

You have at least 10 years of hands-on design experience. Thirty is not too many.

• You have a network among designers you respect, and you're comfortable writing to someone you admire and presenting them with an opportunity.
• You know what the design community wants to see, and what it needs to learn.
• You're kind, and you have the social intelligence and empathy to engage well with very different kinds of people. Much of this job is convincing busy, accomplished people that what we're building is worth their time.
• You can show us something you built or led: a product, a design team, a course, an AI teaching app, or a conference track. We're excited to hear what it was, your thinking behind it, how long it took you to create, what went wrong, and how you improved it.
• You can take a broad, complex design practice and turn it into a step-by-step learning sequence that'll make a beginner feel and act confident. You can look at a plan for teaching something and see what's missing before anyone builds it.
• You're a practical idealist. You know how to create great results through incremental quick wins and MVPs, and you know when to go all in and make something perfect.
• You’re a forward thinker who isn’t afraid to innovate and try new things before others have.
• You collaborate with AI in everything you do. You use AI to research, structure, write, and create faster, and you know how to take human leadership, so the outcome is 100% yours and better than you could have created without AI.
• You’re eager to help people build UX and UI skills because you know they’re more relevant than ever in the age of AI.
• You can teach a career changer the powerful skills of great design, and you can guide an experienced designer in upskilling. Perhaps you've mentored people, or you’ve run your own company helping clients level up.
• You give constructive feedback people can act on, and you can tell a talented colleague how they can improve their work without them becoming defensive.
• You're genuinely curious about how AI is changing design work and design education.
• You're fluent in written and spoken English and you can explain complex ideas clearly.
• You’re enthusiastic about learning by doing and are committed to putting in the effort to continuously improve your skills.
• Most of the work happens from your home office, but you're willing to travel a few times a year to shoot courses.
• You're located in a time zone between UTC-6 (Austin, Chicago) and UTC+8 (Singapore, Perth), which includes all of Europe.

Bonus Points

None of these are required, but each of them would make us even happier.

• You've led a design team.
• You publish your own thinking on design: articles, a book, educational material, a blog, or a social media presence.
• You've spoken at design conferences, or you're on a first-name basis with people who do.
• You've created design systems. Organizing complex material so other people can put it to use is a lot of what you'll be doing.
• You've worked as an editor, or you've created online courses.

What We Can Offer

• A highly valued role: You'll shape our core product, our courses and Master Classes.
• Reach and impact that are difficult to find anywhere else in this field. A design leader might shape the work of thirty people on their team. Your decisions about what we teach will reach hundreds of thousands. They'll build better careers and design a better world for all of us.
• Access: the designers you'd normally see on a conference stage are the people you'll email, plan with, and sit across from in a studio. Our name opens doors. An email from IxDF gets read, so the reach you have now is the floor, not the ceiling.
• Autonomy: Nobody will ever hand you a template and tell you to fill it in.
• A global, purpose-driven team: work remotely alongside passionate professionals from all over the world, united by a common mission to create the best possible design and AI education in the world and make it accessible for everyone.
• A full-time position within a fully remote organization. Video-based collaboration with your colleagues from elsewhere on the planet, and we get together in person each year, on a team trip or for a studio production.
• Bi-weekly knowledge-sharing sessions and 4 meeting-free days weekly for focused work.
• A work culture with no fluffy titles, political agendas, or corporate drama. Your colleagues value your warm character, your strong work ethic, and the results you deliver. If you embody old-school virtues of always striving to deliver results, learn and become better every day, you'll thrive at IxDF.
• A daily mission to help impact, empower, and enrich the lives of millions of people by creating affordable high-end design education for everyone across the planet. It'll be yours too.
• Colleagues with four to forty years of experience, and a culture where we follow the best idea,