Teaching Track Faculty - Design Expertise - Fall 2026
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Job Type
Faculty Position at CMU
Job Description
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute invites experienced practitioners to apply to join our teaching track faculty. Visit the Interfolio link to apply online.
Teaching Track Faculty - Design Expertise
Position Description
The HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon is searching for design teaching track faculty with industry experience collaborating in, and/or leading interdisciplinary teams in research, design, prototyping and testing. Teaching faculty in the Human-Computer Interaction program bring their experience working in a product company and/or consultancy in a design studio style educational setting that emphasizes team-based projects, application of theory to practice, critique and presentation. The design teaching faculty may have worked as an interaction designer, product designer, user experience designer, user interface designer, service designer, strategist, design researcher, design manager or other related roles. HCII teaching faculty typically carry a load of 8 classes annually that may be offset with service on committees and other HCII initiatives. The effective date of appointment is as early as January, 2027. Salary is dependent on education, industry experience, teaching experience, and other relevant qualifications.
The HCI Institute produces exceptional undergraduate and master's students who improve the state of the world through a systematic, disciplined and principled approach to using technology to innovate and improve the human condition. We teach students preparing to become Product designers, UX designers, service designers, UX researchers, HCI practitioners, frontend developers, learning science innovators, human-centered data scientists, product managers, design engineers, and other technology leadership positions.
Qualifications
Qualified candidates will have many years of industry experience and demonstrate mastery in interaction design, visual design, user experience design, user interface design, conceptual design, concept validation, prototyping, usability evaluation and testing, digital storytelling, product design, service design or design facilitation. Qualified applicants will demonstrate a history of creating value through the disciplined application of design methods, principles, techniques, processes and tools. Applicants with prior teaching experience, mentoring responsibilities and evidence of applying design theory to industry projects are preferred. Applicants who can teach courses in research and technology that are adjacent to design courses will be preferred. All applicants will be required to submit a portfolio. Selected applicants will be required to present a project from their portfolio and give a teaching demonstration to HCI students and faculty.
A Master’s Degree in design or a related field is required for this position. We will consider candidates at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Teaching Professor levels.
Application Instructions
Applications should include:
- Resume or curriculum vitae
- Teaching statement and sample materials
- Personal statement
- Portfolio showing HCI work
- Names and email addresses of three or more individuals who can provide letters of reference.
Please submit your materials to the SCS Interfolio Faculty Hiring site.
Be sure to mention in your cover letter that you are applying for the HCII Teaching Track position.
The HCII will review applications as we receive them; however, the final deadline to receive materials is November 30, 2026, or until the position has been filled.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact us at scs-faculty-search@andrew.cmu.edu.
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