User Experience Instructor

Since 2011, General Assembly has transformed tens of thousands of careers through pioneering, experiential education in today’s most in-demand skills. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers training in web development, data, design, business, and more, both online and at campuses around the world. Our global professional community boasts 60,000 full- and part-time alumni — and counting. In addition to fostering career growth for individuals, GA helps employers cultivate top tech talent and spur innovation by transforming their teams through strategic learning. More than 21,000 employees at elite companies worldwide have honed their digital fluency with our upskilling and reskilling initiatives. GA has also been recognized as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, and Fast Company has dubbed us leaders in World-Changing Ideas as well as the #1 Most Innovative Company in Education. GA is at the leading edge of creating practical solutions to one of the most pressing challenges of our time - the future of work. As recognized by The World Economic Forum, BCG, the OECD and more, these are big challenges to which only a few companies are offering real solutions. In this role, you'll be speaking every day to corporate leaders who rely on GA to help them apply these solutions to their workforce of the future. We are currently looking for a lead instructor for our full-time (12 week) User Experience Bootcamp. We are looking for instructors: Our User Experience Bootcamp (UXB) course is a life-changing educational experience where our students learn and practice the skills and mindsets to take on new careers in product design roles. We are looking for a lead instructor with cross-functional experience to play a key role on our growing instructional team. This role is based in Singapore and is delivered in a hybrid (campus and online) format, requiring instructors to reside in Singapore and have an eligible work permit or be a Singapore citizen or permanent resident. (We are not currently sponsoring employees.) Why teach our User Experience Design Bootcamp? If you are looking to make a life-changing impact by sharing your love for user experience with the next generation of product designers, we’d love for you to consider joining our team. We deliver more than just skills training and are looking for teachers who share our passion for facilitating and mentoring a community of lifelong learners pursuing the work and careers that they love. As an instructor, you will join us to: Work closely with the instructional team (co-lead instructors, instructional associates, instructor manager) to guide students through a rigorous, transformational journey. Become a better leader, coach, and mentor as you learn from students, experienced instructors, and the larger General Assembly community. Inspire and support learners as they identify their interests and drive their own continued learning beyond the curriculum; motivate students when they deal with classroom and personal challenges that become barriers to learning. Adapt our global curriculum and use it to guide your teaching, building your own lesson plans as needed and sharing your lessons with the larger GA instructional community. Facilitate a safe, supportive, and energetic community that welcomes the various abilities, needs and learning styles of your students. What do we teach? Through a combination of live instruction, instructor-led workshops, self-paced lessons, unit projects (individual and team-based), and 1:1 support, we teach our learners how to approach and solve UX challenges in order to land a design job and contribute to the creation of the next generation of successful apps, websites, and other digital products. The User Experience Bootcamp consists of four units: Unit 1: Rapid Prototyping, Design Iteration, and Usability Testing Unit 2: User Interface and Visual Design Foundations Unit 3: Working on a Product Team Unit 4: UX in the Real World L