Senior Designer, Visual Interaction Design

🏢 Ideo · 📍 Cambridge, MA 💰 $80,000 - $80,000 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Senior Designer, Visual Interaction Design

In a nutshell:

We’re looking for a Senior Visual Interaction Designer to join our Cambridge Studio who is passionate about crafting elegant, thoughtful user experiences, and who brings strong visual design craft to the interactions people have with complex design systems, software, services, and each other.

Senior Visual Interaction Designers at IDEO shape how experiences look, feel, and behave. In this role, you’ll translate human-centered insights into clear, compelling interactions and interfaces that are functional, expressive, and meaningful. You’ll balance visual excellence with usability, and bring a distinct visual voice to each design challenge while learning and growing alongside a multidisciplinary team.

This is a phenomenal opportunity for designers who are highly self-guided, eager to take on complexity, and motivated to continually sharpen their craft.

Once here you will:

Contribute to a diverse portfolio of projects spanning data, experience, interaction, digital product, and service design across a range of industries
Work across all phases of a project, from research synthesis and concepting through prototyping, refinement, and production-ready execution
Translate human-centered insights into interaction models, visual systems, and polished digital interfaces
Create “looks-like / works-like” prototypes to explore ideas, test assumptions, and communicate concepts to teammates and client stakeholders
Collaborate closely with designers from different backgrounds—including design research, business design, industrial design, and communication design—to develop cohesive, holistic experiences
Design across a wide variety of mediums and contexts, such as mobile apps, AI experiences, websites, digital/physical systems, room-scale displays, AR/VR, or voice interfaces, always guided by user needs and context
Advocate for high-quality visual and interaction design, contributing to a culture of strong craft, curiosity, and experimentation

Design Craft + Relevant Experience

Relevant experience and/or educational background required in visual, interaction, or graphic design across digital products or experiences
A strong portfolio demonstrating visual excellence, thoughtful interaction design, and a clear point of view on typography, color, layout,

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Ideo Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating human-centered design capabilities, collaborative synthesis of ambiguous problems, and the humility to prototype and fail fast.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Being overly attached to one's own ideas rather than embracing team iteration and user feedback.
2. Approaching design through a purely aesthetic lens without grounding it in rigorous behavioral insights and business viability.
3. Arrogance or lack of self-awareness during collaborative workshop or critique rounds.

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I leverage human-centered design to cut through ambiguity, translating deep user empathy into tangible, game-changing prototypes.

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