New job opening: Design Lecturer

We’re excited to grow the d.school family!

We’re seeking a lecturer for a multiple-year, renewable term. Design is a highly interdisciplinary program where students learn to create products, experiences, and systems across a multitude of domains. The Design BS is an engineering program with making focus areas in physical product + manufacturing, AI + digital user experience, and human behavior + multi-stakeholder research. Students also select a domain focus area: climate + environment, global poverty + development, oceans, health + healthcare, and living matter. The Design MS is a two-year applied program that also requires students to explore at the intersection of methods and domains. More information about Stanford’s Design Programs may be found at ugdesign.stanford.edu and designprogram.stanford.edu.

The following four pillars underpin both programs:

(1) Make. The ability to prototype and make across all mediums, existing and emerging, with a particular fluency in a chosen area.

(2) Care. The care and responsibility to be leading stewards of the planet, all people, and the data we generate.

(3) Adapt. The flexibility of adaptive learning – letting the individual needs and interests of students shape their academic pathway.

(4) Spark. The quirky creativity and scrappy resourcefulness that produces new to the world ideas.

Applications are due on July 9.

Lecturer Responsibilities + Role Details

A successful hire will be expected to (1) teach undergraduate level courses for Design, (2) perform other Design-program related duties, (3) contribute to the continual curricular development of the programs. Note, Stanford courses are all offered in-person and this is a fully in-person position. 

In particular, we seek candidates with the ability to teach one or more of the following: DESIGN 1 (Introduction to Design), DESIGN 101 (History + Ethics of Design), DESIGN 121 (Human Values in Design), and DESIGN 141 (Product Design Methods).

Stanford is on the quarter system (three academic quarters of 10 weeks each) and the normal teaching load of a full time lecturer is the equivalent of 6 courses over the three quarters. We anticipate that the position’s teaching load will be one to two courses per quarter with time allotted for other program-related duties (e.g., program capstone development and advising, assistance with graduatwe admissions, curricular development, alumni outreach).

Successful candidates will have relevant teaching experience and will be able to demonstrate excellence in their work to date. The position will begin in early September 2023.

We encourage the Design Lecturer to continue their individual practice as a practitioner and/or scholar of Design and we are open to applicants who may be interested in the position at an 80-100% appointment.

The base salary for the Design Lecturer role starts at $100,000 annually. The final salary number will be determined based on appointment percentage (see above) in consideration with other factors such as candidate qualifications.

Applications are due on July 9.

The d.school is committed to supporting a diverse community. People with personal or professional experience as part of communities of color and historically marginalized groups are especially encouraged to apply. Stanford is an equal employment opportunity employer. All completed applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

How to apply

An application should include a CV and a cover letter that addresses your qualifications including:

• intersection of academic interests with the mission of the Design program;

• demonstrated excellence in teaching, especially with undergraduates;

• relevant applied design work or research related to classes listed above; and

• an indication of what other coursework you would be prepared to teach. 

Application Materials Required:

• Cover letter

• Curriculum Vitae

• Teaching evaluations

• A teaching syllabus for a course that you have designed

• Design portfolio (website)

• Names of three references (at least one of whom can speak to your teaching record)

Submit all materials in one email to Stacey Gray, Chief of Staff, stacey@dschool.stanford.edu by July 9, 2023.

After an initial review phase, we may request other materials, including letters of reference and other teaching materials for short-listed applicants.

Further information about Stanford’s Design Programs may be found at https://ugdesign.stanford.edu/ and https://designprogram.stanford.edu/. Inquiries may be directed to Carissa Carter, Academic Director, carissac@stanford.edu.