Podcast

On the Designing Yourself podcast, I talk with Whitney Hess and Paul McAleer about our UX design school, Center Centre. We also discuss how to keep energized even when your to-do list is super long.

Spring is here and we’re hiring our full-time UX educators!

Perhaps all of these conversations about unicorns and UX education have you wondering if Unicorn Wrangler could be your next calling. Maybe, you’re asking yourself: “Am I perfect to teach the next generation of UX designers?” Or maybe, you know someone else who might be a great fit for this position.

Fast forward two and a half years:

You’ve changed the future of User Experience. You’ve transformed the UX learning experience. You’ve helped create the next generation of UX designers. And you did this just in the past two and a half years. Incredible! We want to thank you for being an awesome unicorn wrangler.

Here’s what happened because of your dedication to learning and leadership:

• You worked with the best-of-the-best experts in our industry to develop two-day industry-grade workshops that totally rocked. Not only did our students learn an incredible amount of relevant content, so did you. Extra bonuses: Because of the groundwork you did with the industry experts before the workshops you built relationships with leading professionals in our industry, the workshops ran really smoothly, and the workshops were a ton of fun.
• Then you took what you learned from each workshop and, at the same time, saw what each student needed to develop to really grasp the workshop concepts. You created projects that helped each student grow the skills they needed to effectively participate in team projects.
• You led and mentored students through their team project. You guided students through the experience of working with real clients and all the joys and challenges that included. You helped students experience the realities of working within professional constraints. Because of this, our students are industry-ready—they can make a meaningful contribution to their employer on day one. Our Partner Companies are thrilled with this!
• You helped students grow and thrive with your contributions in how we assessed each student’s daily progress. Your innovative assessments helped us make meaningful course improvements and engaged every student by tailoring the curriculum to meet each student where they were in their learning.
• You woke up every morning and asked yourself: How am I going to make awesomeness and do good today? Then, you applied your answers to your work and helped create an exciting and safe learning environment—an environment that supported both individual excellence and collaborative greatness.

Our first cohort of student UX designers, your fellow full-time faculty, and the rest of the team at Center Centre thank you for your dedication. We look forward to the next two years!

Now back to today:

Center Centre is a brand new school to create the next generation of industry-ready UX designers. We’re ready to make some critically important hires—our full-time faculty—who will work directly with the students for the duration of the two-year on-site program. If you are an experienced educator, a seasoned UX designer, and would love to be part of a new approach to design education, you should strongly consider applying to this position.

Along with a commitment for lifelong learning, you must hold a high school diploma or GED and have a certificate of completion from a postsecondary institution with a focus relevant to user experience design. Within the last seven years, you must have worked a minimum of three years in a field relevant to user experience design. If you’ve been on a self-directed learning path, have many years of relevant experience, and want to improve the state of user experience design education, you should still apply.

Facilitators will work in our Chattanooga, Tennessee school facilities. This is an on-site education program and we can’t support remote faculty. If you’re the right person, we will help you relocate to beautiful Chattanooga. We’ll provide the resources you need to bring out the best in your talents and skills.

If you’d like this to be your story or know someone who does, please visit Center Centre to apply.