Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
At IDEO.org, we design products, services, and experiences to improve the lives of people in poor and vulnerable communities. We practice human-centered design, a creative approach to problem solving that starts with people and arrives at new solutions tailored to meet their lives. We've organized our work into four main programs, areas of deep focus that each offer a unique opportunity for design to improve lives at scale. IDEO.org is a non-profit design and innovation organization focused on solving challenges in poverty and spreading human-centered design through the social sector. Human-centered design enables organizations to create and deliver innovative solutions to pressing challenges that are rooted in the needs of people. IDEO.org works directly with organizations on projects using the human-centered design process across a wide range of focus areas related to poverty, including health, financial services, gender equity, water and sanitation.2012 .

  You will:
Demonstrate excellence in design research
• Design and structure the research portion of projects, lead teams through fieldwork, findings analysis, and insights synthesis, and translate insight into action.
• Identify the most powerful, interesting, and relevant questions to ask research participants, and collaborate with other designers to create new tools and methods to help answer them
• Plan and design for quantitative studies that inform decision-making on teams
• Go regularly to the field to build empathy for users' needs first-hand—conducting interviews in people’s homes, shadowing someone through their day, and interviewing experts
• Inspire the team with analogous inspiration—finding creative ways to unlock new solutions
• Share stories from the field to unlock teams and partners and provoke great design design
Lead design engagements with our partners
• Set the creative and strategic direction across a variety of design challenges: interaction, product, space, and service design
• Co-design measurement, learning, and optimization strategies with partners that will enable them to optimise solutions for scale and cost-effectiveness beyond our design engagements.
• Instill confidence in the design process among our partner organizations
• Work with teams to prototype solutions at various levels of fidelity

Job Skills: Not Specified

  You are:
• An experienced design researcher with 6-10 years of relevant work experience including planning and leading research activities such as interviews, group sessions, observations, and synthesis sessions
• An absolute professional who leads by example, treats peers and partners with respect, and seeks and gives constructive feedback
• A top-notch communicator, able to convey research insights and complex concepts to a wide diversity of audiences in simple, human terms
• Comfortable switching seamlessly between self-directed independent work and highly collaborative teamwork
• Highly collaborative. You use your knowledge of the design process in collaboration with other researchers, designers, strategists and project leads to help transform complex problems into easy-to-use solutions.
• Deeply curious and highly attuned to human behavior and emotion
• A lifelong learner, passionate about experimenting with new research methods and pushing your own craft in new ways
• Experienced in or passionate about working with poor and marginalized communities both domestically and internationally and tackling challenges related to poverty and inequity
• Experience with field studies, participatory design, heuristic evaluations, and competitive testing is also preferred.
• Excited to travel nearly anywhere in the world

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified
Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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