Jobs at IDEO

Execute user-centered physical product design within interdisciplinary teams, produce sketches/CAD/renderings and physical prototypes, lead 12+ week project workstreams, apply DFM and rapid prototyping (including 3D printing), present visual storytelling to clients, and mentor other designers.

Lead mechanical design efforts from concept to implementation on multidisciplinary teams. Drive rapid prototyping and high-fidelity testing, mentor junior engineers, source manufacturers, apply DFM and sustainability/LCA, present design direction via CAD and prototypes, and represent IDEO in client workshops and research activities.

Lead and mentor design teams to create interactive, prototype-driven experiences across platforms. Facilitate client workshops, translate input into producible designs, and manage project finances. Apply game mechanics, AR/VR, AI, and immersive tools to design engaging products and digital toys. Support junior designers, build client relationships, and travel for meetings as needed.

Lead and deliver complex strategy and organisational design engagements from framing through activation. Diagnose organisational systems, design interventions, prototype strategic futures, facilitate executive decisions, and mentor multidisciplinary teams. Build client relationships, grow accounts, and help organisations navigate transformations including human-centred AI adoption. Contribute to practice development and represent IDEO externally.

Lead end-to-end AI-driven digital product engagements, direct multidisciplinary teams, prototype live models, mentor designers, grow client relationships, and shape IDEO's European AI product practice with regulatory-aware, human-centred design.

Lead visual interaction design across projects, translating human-centered insights into interaction models, prototypes, and production-ready interfaces. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to craft polished digital experiences across mobile, web, AR/VR, AI, and physical-digital systems while advocating for visual excellence and iterative experimentation.

Lead visual storytelling across multidisciplinary teams, creating brand identities, prototypes, motion, and digital/physical experiences. Produce high-quality deliverables from exploration to client-facing final assets, advocating for strong craft, typography, and narrative across industries.

Create and art-direct visual communication across brand identity, packaging, editorial, exhibition graphics, UI and presentation materials. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, produce prototypes and illustrations, conduct field research to build empathy, and deliver high-quality design solutions for diverse clients and contexts.

Lead visual storytelling across brand, digital product, motion, and environmental experiences. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate research and strategy into high-fidelity deliverables, prototypes, and brand systems. Advocate for craft excellence, contribute to client-facing presentations, and iterate across exploratory and polished work to communicate user stories and strategic intent.

Lead IDEO Shanghai's business development and craft excellence: build long-term client collaborations, design market-facing offers, support portfolio strategy, mentor designers, and contribute to project content and brand-building.

Lead and execute studio growth by identifying prospects, generating leads, shaping pursuits, and closing contracts. Build and deepen client relationships, partner with design and studio leaders, and strengthen studio-wide BD capabilities through coaching, systems, and playbooks. Represent IDEO externally and drive strategic growth priorities for the Chicago studio.

Lead visual communication work across brand identity, editorial, information graphics, packaging, exhibitions, and presentations. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, participate in research and prototyping, and translate complex problems into compelling visual solutions.

Lead visual direction across brand, product, interaction, motion, and environmental design. Guide multidisciplinary teams from research through prototyping and client storytelling, create visual systems and prototypes, mentor designers, and ensure high-quality visual communication across diverse projects and mediums.

Lead multidisciplinary teams to turn ambiguous business challenges into viable products, services, and ventures. Conduct market, competitive, and financial analysis; synthesize insights into strategic narratives; design business models and go-to-market strategies; run experiments and pilots; facilitate client workshops; and drive concepts from insight to execution while upskilling business design capabilities across the organization.

Lead industrial design work across multidisciplinary projects: research, concepting, prototyping, CAD modeling, engineering collaboration, CMF specification, and client communication. Create tangible design expressions and guide teams through the industrial design phase.

Lead visual storytelling on multidisciplinary teams for an Entertainment & Technology client. Translate research and strategy into brand, information, motion, interface, environmental, and prototype deliverables. Drive visual direction from concept through production, collaborate across disciplines, and create compelling, production-ready visual narratives that clarify complex data and systems.

Lead development and execution of global brand visual communications: create brand identity systems, marketing and social assets, art direct photo/video, design collateral, support business development materials, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to align visual strategy across print, digital, environmental, and UI touchpoints.