Course Director UX UI and AI
About the role
The human-centered design skills are where your heart is
ten leading designers
Don Norman and Vitaly Friedman
Netflix, LinkedIn, Meta, and Adobe
take initiative, make meaningful contributions, and grow
Join the Global Leader in Online Design and AI Education
take online education to new heights
make a meaningful impact on humankind
We're Hiring Three People for Our Editorial Team
Our Course Directors, UX, UI, and AI
This is the role described here.
Our Education Designers, UX, UI, and AI
Our Course Writers and Editors
You, the Course Director
Co-Founder
Team Lead
Course Directors
Education Designers
Your Role at IxDF
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 atÂ
where design and AI are heading, what designers needÂ
what we should retireÂ
Find the people who should teach it.
Decide what each expert should teach.
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.
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Help us decide what AI should do for our course participants
Make an impact as you pressure-test the coursesÂ
 You know the limits of your own expertise
, and you research your way past them before you weigh in. You'll also plan, structure, and create courses yourself, alongside them.
- You're one of the people
 whose judgment the rest of the team leans on.
diverse, highly organized, result-driven environment
Act as guardian of our quality bar
Bring your subject matter expertiseÂ
You help produce Master Classes
Timelines vary enormously:Â
Focus on what mattersÂ
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, a course will serve both in the same lesson. Getting both right without watering either down is a rewarding design challenge.
- Give the video teamÂ
constructive feedback
Fly out and meet the global industry leaders in design in professional studios across the world.
we shoot 4-6 new courses per year.
- Expect to have several courses moving at once at different stages: one you're planning with an expert, one being shot, one in production, and one published course that you're reviewing and improving.
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Find room for improvement
Maintain and improve our crystal-clear documentationÂ
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.
- We're proud to have assembledÂ
a remarkable team of unicornsÂ
About You
- You have at least
 10 years of hands-on design experience. Thirty is not too many.
- You have aÂ
network among designers you respect
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 theÂ
social intelligence and empathy to
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 aÂ
broad, complex design practice and turn it into a step-by-step learning sequence
see what's missing
 before anyone builds it.
- You're aÂ
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.
- Youâre aÂ
forward thinker
 who isnât afraid to innovate and try new things before others have.
- YouÂ
collaborate with AI in everything you do
 human leadership
outcome is 100% yoursÂ
and better than you could have created without AI.
- YouâreÂ
eager to help people build UX and UI skills
 because you know theyâre more relevant than ever in the age of AI.
- You canÂ
teach a career changer
guide an experienced designer
 in upskilling. Perhaps you've mentored people, or youâve run your own company helping clients level up.
- YouÂ
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 genuinelyÂ
curious
 about how AI is changing design work and design education.
- You'reÂ
fluent in written and spoken English
 and you can explain complex ideas clearly.
- Youâre enthusiastic about learning by doing and areÂ
committed to putting in the effort to continuously improve your skills
.
- YouÂ
spot problems
 before anyone else notices them, and when something goes off track you come back with a solution rather than a report.
- YouÂ
value teamwork
, prioritize collaboration, and focus on collective goals and harmony in the workplace.
- You'reÂ
self-motivated
creative freedom
independent judgment
responsibility
 that comes with both.
- Youâre driven by the desire toÂ
make a positive impact in the world
 and to improve the lives of others.
- If you still love designing in Figma and building interfaces with AI, there's room for that here. Some of our Course Directors design hands-on; others have moved fully into direction. Both work for us.
- Most of the work happens from yourÂ
home office,Â
willing to travel a few times a year
 to shoot courses.
- You're located in aÂ
time zone
Bonus Points
None of these are required, but each of them would make us even happier.
- You'veÂ
led a design team.
- YouÂ
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'veÂ
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 anÂ
editor
online courses
.
- You have the graphic design skills to create image-based and interactive content for courses, articles, and social media.
- You'veÂ
built AI-supported learning tools
 yourself, or you've used AI to build products.
- You hold aÂ
bachelor's or master's
 degree in UX, UI, HCI ,  AI, or a similar field.
- YouâveÂ
collaborated with video production teams
What We Can Offer
A highly valued role
Reach and impact that are difficult to find anywhere else in this field.
Access:Â
Autonomy
A global, purpose-driven team: work remotelyÂ
common mission
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.
- AÂ
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-weeklyÂ
knowledge-sharing sessions
 and 4 meeting-free days weekly for focused work.
- A work culture with noÂ
fluffy titles, political agendas, or corporate drama
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,Â
empower, and enrich the lives of millions of people
affordable high-end design education
Colleagues with four to forty years of experience
, and a culture where we follow the best idea, not the longest résumé.
- A companyÂ
where the distance between idea and execution is minimal.
zero bureaucracy or corporate politics
exceptional order and efficiency
.
- A company culture where
 passion meets high performance and excellence
you'll need grit, strong work ethic, long-term thinking, and self-discipline
.
- We thrive because we have aÂ
hands-on attitude and a bias towards action
crisp execution skills yourself
impress your colleagues with concrete results
, just like they'll impress you.
- 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 theÂ
forefront of teaching designers to work with AI and to design responsibly for it
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.
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