Visual Design Instructor

General Assembly is a venture-backed, NYC-based startup focusing on education for individuals and enterprises in the areas of technology, design, and entrepreneurship. We currently have physical classrooms in 15 cities across 4 continents, with tens of thousands of students coming through our doors.

We are looking for instructors to lead this transformative experience through General Assembly’s part-time Visual Design course.At the end of this 8-week part-time course, students will be able apply color, layout, and typography skills to design a single-scrolling product landing page from scratch that can be used to kick off a design portfolio. Students will also be able to present, defend, and critique their design decisions and create a process presentation deck that shows how their design evolved from rough sketches all the way through to a completed, polished design.

• Teach 2 hours per evening, 2 days a week, for 8 weeks.
• Instructors will need to commit a few hours per week preparing lessons and materials.
• Work alongside GA staff and teaching team to best meet the needs and learning styles of your students.
• Guide students through development of a stellar final project that will showcase their abilities to hiring managers.
• Facilitate a dynamic and collaborative classroom community.
• Inspire students to persevere through the challenges of solving user experience design problems.

• You have a passion for design and an eagerness to mentor and elevate other creative people.
• You have a diverse visual design portfolio representing work conducted for various different platforms & devices.
• You have at least 5 years designing outstanding web-based products.
• You have fluency in all of the following areas:
  • Creating visually engaging and innovative web-based and mobile products
  • Cultivating bonds between customers and brands
  • Weaving together typography, color, imagery, and iconography to create products that are both beautiful and easy-to-use
  • Communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale