IxDF - Interaction Design Foundation
Headquarters: Denmark
URL: https://ixdf.org/about/careers
You're a designer who has facilitated workshops or built online courses, and you noticed that you loved it and that you were unusually good at it.
You know how to make complex skills easy to learn, and how to guide people in applying their new skills. As one of our Education Designers, you'll structure and create the courses and Master Classes you lead.
You've taught design or AI to hundreds of people. Now you get the opportunity to teach it to hundreds of thousands of learners around the world.
You see the fear around AI, and you understand where it comes from. But you also see the opportunities, and you want to show people how to work with AI in a way that benefits their lives, their users, and the world.
The industry leaders whose expertise you'll be turning into courses and Master Classes include Don Norman and Vitaly Friedman, as well as Design Leads at Netflix, LinkedIn, Meta, and Adobe. Don Norman also chairs our executive board.
You’ll be involved in all stages of course and Master Class creation, including key decisions, so there are incredible opportunities for you to take initiative, make meaningful contributions, and grow. Forget political struggles or long, pointless debates. You’ll be in a team with minimal distance between idea and action, where decisions are made ultra-fast.
IxDF is the world's largest online design and AI education platform, with over 1,150,000 enrollments since 2002. We hold the trust of industry giants like Adobe, NASA, and IBM, who rely on our courses to train their teams. Prestigious universities, including MIT and the University of Cambridge, integrate our material into their curricula. Help us take online education to new heights and make a meaningful impact on humankind.
At IxDF, we’re not just a company but a movement dedicated to making high-quality design and AI education accessible to everyone, everywhere.
We've pioneered online design education since 2002. We have over 1,150,000 enrollments and 1,583 company members, with more than 40 courses, 160 Master Classes, and thousands of open-source design resources, created by our team in collaboration with 240 industry leaders.
With learners from over 100 countries, your work will empower people worldwide.
We're growing, and three roles are open at the same time to build the next generation of our core educational product. Here's what each role leads on:
Our Education Designers, UX, UI, and AI: lead how design and AI are taught. You plan, structure, and create the core content, and you decide what a course participant should be able to do by the end and how they get there. This is the role described here.
Our Course Directors, UX, UI, and AI: lead what we teach and who teaches our courses and Master Classes. You reach out to industry leaders and create the invitation they say yes to. You bring your judgment to a planned course outline: what's missing, what doesn't belong, and whether the structure is solid. You plan and shoot courses with our Education Designers.
Our Course Writers and Editors: lead how our courses and articles read. You make each title engaging, ensure each sentence flows, and edit the written course experience from the user’s perspective.
We’re a flexible team, and you’ll be able to do what you excel in. Everyone on our team creates courses, and everyone works across these roles. If you're torn between two roles, apply for the one you'd be best at, and tell us in your application which other one you considered and why.
You, the Education Designer, establish what a course participant should be able to do by the end of a course. You create the sequences, exercises, templates, and assessments. You'll work closely with our Co-Founder, your Team Lead, and the Course Directors, who lead on what we teach and who teaches it, and you'll have a real say in both. We all reach out to and collaborate with industry leaders in these processes. Once your course is ready, our Course Writers and Editors take it the last mile: the scripts, hooks, headings, on-screen text in videos, quiz wording, and editorial voice. You'll also work closely with the video team and our growth team.
Be a core part of our Editorial Team. You'll collaborate with IxDF editors, video editors, and UX and UI designers as well as external industry leaders to create courses and Master Classes for people worldwide. You'll help them succeed in the age of AI with new skills in AI and in timeless human-centered design.
Design for a diverse, global audience. Some of our courses and Master Classes serve working designers who want to grow into more senior work. Others serve people moving into design from other fields. Often, you'll teach both in the same lesson. Getting both right without watering either down is a rewarding design challenge.
Make an impact as you decide how the courses you lead come together. You establish what a course participant should be able to do by the end of a course, then you plan, structure, and create the core content that gets them there. What comes first, what builds on what, and how people level up step by step with ease and joy from confused to competent. You'll work across UX design, human-computer interaction, design thinking, UI design, psychology, and AI.
Design the exercises, portfolio activities, design templates, and assessments that turn passive watching into active designing. You write the exercises that make a course participant apply an idea to their own portfolio project, the templates that scaffold that work, and the assessments that reveal whether they understood and can apply it, or whether they just watched. You write the headings and hooks your structure calls for, and our Course Writers and Editors own the final wording. Every course should leave a participant with a portfolio case study they can show a hiring manager.
Set and raise the standard for our assessments, so a correct answer proves understanding, not just recognition, and a good question teaches as well as tests.
Make expert knowledge understandable. You take raw expert video material, course and Master Class transcripts and footage featuring global industry leaders, and turn it into educational material that teaches timeless human-centered design and AI.
You help produce Master Classes. We produce 3 per month. Over email, you reach out to designers whose work you admire, invite them to create one with us, plan the content, and produce the live session. Timelines vary enormously: with Don Norman or Vitaly Friedman it can be two weeks from first email to publication, because we work with them often. With a new expert, it can be half a year. Once the session is recorded, you get the footage and the transcript, and you decide with the Course Directors and Team Lead which existing course benefits from which snippets, and where they go.
You plan the course content in collaboration with the global industry leaders in design and then fly out to meet them in professional studios across the world. You'll shoot the course content there with some of your colleagues. Expect this a few times a year at minimum. Some of us love that part and join every studio production; others keep it to those few trips. Both work for us. On average we shoot 4-6 new courses per year.
Our courses combine written and video lessons. You'll work closely with the video team, giving constructive feedback on on-screen text, b-roll, graphics, and animation, and telling them which takeaways need a visual, so each video is more engaging to learn from and accurate from a design perspective. You'll also work closely with our growth team.
Balance the big picture with the smaller details. Expect to focus on one large course creation project per quarter, alongside small, continuous improvements to what's already published.
Find room for improvement by looking at completion rates, learner feedback, and the portfolios course participants produce, then go back and fix what isn't excellent yet. Use the power of incremental, modular design as you help push the quality of our educational materials to new heights, surpassing even the very best in industry and academia. We're always learning, always improving, always raising the bar in everything we do and ship.
Maintain and improve our crystal-clear documentation so our knowledge resources stay up-to-date, easy to find, and provide instant value to our internal teams. Clarity is key. Any line of documentation should be self-explanatory.
You won't do this alone. You'll work with our Course Directors, your Team Lead, and our Co-Founder to pressure-test the structure: what's missing, what doesn't belong, and whether it holds together. That kind of judgment takes twenty years to build, and this type of collaboration is one of the fastest ways to grow your own design skills. You'll work in a diverse, highly organized, result-driven environment where you'll grow personally and professionally.
We’re committed to excellence, and we seek a like-minded enthusiast to join us. This role is not for the average. Ahead of you is a highly rewarding and enriching journey.
We're proud to have assembled a remarkable team of unicorns who uplift, motivate, and push each other to excel daily. There's a seat open for someone who shares our passion for excellence. Could that be you?
You have at least 5 years of hands-on design experience.
You've facilitated workshops repeatedly, run a beginner course, mentored designers, or built curricula for online courses.
You can show us something you built: a course, a workshop series, live Master Classes, an AI teaching app, or a mentoring program. We’re excited to hear what it was, why you built it the way you did, and how long it took you to create.
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 teach the same idea in different formats: a 60-minute workshop, a written lesson, a 90-second video. You know what a medium does well and what it can't carry, and you know what to cut when the format gets shorter.
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 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 know the difference between timeless human-centered design skills and skills in tools that change. You’re passionate about the first, because they’re the most interesting to you and you know that AI will take over much of the tool-based design work soon. 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 to a more senior role.
You're genuinely curious about how AI is changing design work and design education.
You're kind, and you have the social intelligence and empathy to engage well with very different kinds of people.
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.
You spot problems before anyone else notices them, and when something goes off track you come back with a solution rather than a report.
You value teamwork, prioritize collaboration, and focus on collective goals. You give constructive feedback that others can act on, and you take it the same way. When someone shows you how your idea could be better, you're interested rather than defensive.
You're self-motivated, and you love creative freedom, independent judgment, and the responsibility that comes with both.
You’re driven by the desire to make a positive impact in the world and to improve the lives of others.
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.
None of these are required, but each of them would make us even happier.
You've published educational material under your own name or spoken at design conferences.
You've worked with an LMS or an online learning platform.
You've built AI-supported learning: tutors, adaptive paths, automated feedback. Or you’ve used AI to build products.
You hold a bachelor's or master's in UX, UI, AI, or a similar field.
You have your own blog or social media page where you create and share original content.
You have collaborated with video production teams.
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 workshop facilitator might teach one hundred designers a year. Your design decisions will reach hundreds of thousands. They'll build better careers and design a better world for all of us.
Access: The experts you'd normally cite in a workshop are the people whose material you'll be shaping, whose Master Classes you'll produce, and in some cases the people you'll be in a studio with. 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. You decide how our courses teach.
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.
Our co-founder and co-CEO, Rikke, will work closely with you. She and our other co-founder, Mads, built IxDF from nothing, with no investment capital, so we would stay free to make world-class design education affordable to everyone. She was the sole editor and video editor for many of our early years, so she's shaped our course planning, expert interviews, video shoots, and content editing from the inside. She's still hands-on in everything we do, and she still films educational videos herself, in places like the US, the North Pole, and Nepal.
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, not the longest résumé.
A company where the distance between idea and execution is minimal. We're a highly agile organization with zero bureaucracy or corporate politics – and with exceptional order and efficiency.
A company culture where passion meets high performance and excellence. To help us improve the world, and yourself in the process, you'll need grit, strong work ethic, long-term thinking, and self-discipline.
We thrive because we have a hands-on attitude and a bias towards action as opposed to fluff-filled, unrealistic strategies. You'll need crisp execution skills yourself and the ability to impress your colleagues with concrete results, just like they'll impress you.
If you want even more opportunities to show the world what you can do, you’re in luck! When you're willing to do the hard work of learning and growing, then you’ll find virtually limitless opportunities with us.
We built online design education before people believed in it. AI is now changing what designers do, and they carry a bigger responsibility than ever. You'll be at the forefront of teaching designers to work with AI and to design responsibly for it. You'll help set a direction that shapes both the designers we teach and the people who use what they build. Together, we'll design a better world.
To submit your application as well as learn more about our Work Culture and Values, please visit https://ixdf.org/about/careers
Please apply as soon as you can. We’re firm believers in “the sooner, the better” and we look forward to working with you!
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