Course Director: UX, UI, and AI at IxDF

IxDF - Interaction Design Foundation: Course Director: UX, UI, and AI

Headquarters: Denmark
URL: https://ixdf.org/about/careers

You've been designing long enough to have watched tools become essential and then disappear. You know which design skills are timeless and which ones expire. The human-centered design skills are where your heart is, and you know that AI will take over much of the tool-based design work soon.

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.

You can name the ten leading designers who should be teaching the world’s best courses and Master Classes right now. You know what each of them does better than anyone else, and where their gaps are. Now you get the opportunity to decide what hundreds of thousands of designers learn next.

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.

Join the Global Leader in Online Design and AI Education

IxDF is the global leader in online UX/UI design and AI education. 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, with over 1,150,000 enrollments and 1,583 company members.

We're Hiring Three People for Our Editorial Team

We're growing, and three roles are open at the same time to build the next generation of our core educational product:

• Course Directors, UX, UI, and AI: Lead what we teach and who teaches our courses and Master Classes. You reach out to industry leaders, create invitations, and bring your judgment to course outlines. You plan and shoot courses with our Education Designers. This is the role described here.
• Education Designers, UX, UI, and AI: Lead how design and AI are taught. You plan, structure, and create the core content.
• Course Writers and Editors, UX, UI, and AI: Lead how our courses and articles read. You make each title engaging and ensure each sentence flows.

Your Role at IxDF

• Be a core part of our Editorial Team: Collaborate with editors, video editors, and designers to create courses and Master Classes for people worldwide.
• Research and Strategy: Research existing topics to ensure our content is unique. Identify where design and AI are heading and what should be retired.
• Expert Recruitment: Find the right people to teach, write the invitation, and plan the content with them.
• Curriculum Development: Develop a point of view on what a designer genuinely needs to learn and hold the course to that standard.
• AI Integration: Help decide what AI should do for our participants, such as personalized learning paths and AI-driven feedback.
• Quality Assurance: Act as the guardian of our quality bar. Review course outlines and provide constructive feedback to ensure they are better than anything else available.
• Master Class Production: Produce 3 Master Classes per month by reaching out to industry leaders, planning content, and producing live sessions.
• Global Collaboration: Fly out to professional studios across the world to shoot course content (typically 4-6 new courses per year).
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze completion rates and learner feedback to iterate and improve existing materials.

About You

• You have at least 10 years of hands-on design experience.
• You have a network among designers you respect and are comfortable reaching out to them.
• You possess the social intelligence and empathy to engage with diverse, accomplished people.
• You can demonstrate something you built or led (product, team, course, etc.).
• You are a practical idealist who knows how to balance quick wins with perfection.
• You collaborate with AI in everything you do to research, structure, and write faster.
• You are fluent in written and spoken English.
• You are located in a time zone between UTC-6 and UTC+8.
• You are willing to travel a few times a year for studio shoots.

Bonus Points

• You've led a design team.
• You publish your own thinking on design (articles, books, blogs).
• You've spoken at design conferences.
• You've created design systems.
• You have experience as an editor or creating online courses.
• You have graphic design skills for interactive content.
• You've built AI-supported learning tools.
• You hold a bachelor's or master's degree in UX, UI, HCI, AI, or a similar field.
• You’ve collaborated with video production teams.

What We Can Offer

• A highly valued role: You will shape our core educational product.
• Reach and impact: Your decisions will influence hundreds of thousands of designers.
• Access: Work directly with world-class designers and industry leaders.
• Autonomy: A high-trust environment with no rigid templates.
• A global, purpose-driven team: Work remotely alongside passionate professionals.
• Direct collaboration: Work closely with our co-founders, Rikke and Mads.
• Full-time position: A stable role within a fully remote, established organization.