Course Director UX UI and AI

Job description

About this role

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 Course Director, decide what belongs in our curriculum and who should teach it. You reach out to the world’s leading experts, plan the courses with them, and shoot courses with them. When an Education Designer brings you a course outline, you're the one who says what's missing, what doesn't belong, and how to optimize the learning outcome so designers can succeed today.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• You'll research what already exists in a topic area, so that what we build is genuinely unique. You'll look at where design and AI are heading, what designers need that nobody has taught well yet, and what we should retire because the field has already moved on.
• Find the people who should teach it. You decide a topic is worth a course, you work out who should teach it and why, you write the email, and you get the yes. Then you plan the content with the industry leader and agree what the course must leave a learner able to do.
• Decide what each expert should teach. The best designers know a great deal, and a course that tries to capture all of it becomes an information dump. You develop a point of view on what a designer genuinely needs from them, and you hold the course to it.
• You'll decide which skills our courses teach, both to people entering design and to experienced designers leveling up. Our goal is to help designers thrive in the age of AI and work responsibly, so their users can thrive too.
• Ensure our course participants finish each course with a solid portfolio project they can show a hiring manager.

Qualifications and requirements

• 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.