Noora Health is a nonprofit technology startup that is transforming healthcare with human centered design. Noora Health trains marginalized patients and their families with high-impact health skills to improve outcomes and save lives. By training families with simple, low-risk skills, we enable at-risk families to provide high quality care in the hospital and at home. We build capacity at the household level, and place tools in the hands of those who need it most. Born out of Stanford d.school & YCombinator, Noora Health is all about the democratization of health. If you are excited about working at an early-stage startup that is making change, growing rapidly, and innovating healthcare— join us!
Product & Visual Design Fellow Full-time Fellowship [July - December 2015] Bangalore, India We are a small, highly collaborative team looking for someone excited to use their product design and visual design skills to help families living below the poverty line get healthy and conquer their medical conditions. The Product Design Fellow will work closely with the Design team to design physical educational materials to help train marginalized families in India facing lifethreatening diseases. We need someone that can help us make fun, creative, visually communicative tools that teach people about the conditions their families face. You will have the opportunity to work on the design of our educational materials, take home training materials, and more. Designing educational materials for low-literacy populations will provide and interesting challenge. We are human-centered design evangelists that love to test in the field, try new ideas, and make products that help our users live healthier, happier lives!
Who You Are You love to design visual communications with your users and want to put those skills towards improving the lives of others. You are nerdy about product design, usability, interaction design and an empathetic communicator. When your users tell you what they want, you really listen to them. The idea of putting your product design and visual design skillset towards creating fun, educational materials that empower marginalized families excites you. You believe that with the right tools and information, delivered at a moment of high motivation, anyone can be an effective healthcare provider-- for themselves or for a loved one.
Skills & Qualifications Basics • • • •
Empathy and curiosity for how to design health communication & education for your users Experience designing products or services Humble but confident, flexible but effective when working with others A passion for improving people’s lives with well designed visual communication
Above & beyond • • •
Experience with interaction, communication, or visual design Experience working in health, conveying health information, or work with low-literacy populations Experience designing paper materials, inforgraphics, visualizations, educational materials
If you choose to work with us, you will: • • •
Join a dynamic team of product designers, public health nuts, and social entrepreneurs. Work closely as part of the Technology & Design team to create health materials using human-centered design Be responsible for testing and designing health education materials that we use to empower marginalized patient families.
To Apply: Please send your resume, portfolio (or 2-3 examples of your work), and coverletter to
[email protected] by June 30th, 2015 Ideal Start Date: July 15 Ideal Duration of Fellowship: 6 Months This is a Paid Position Questions? Send them to
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