Visiting Assistant Professor: Communication Design

Title: Visiting Assistant Professor:
Communication Design

Employee Classification: Visiting Assistant Professor

Campus: University of North Texas

Division: UNT-Provost

Subdivision-Department: UNT-Col of Vis Arts & Design

Department: UNT-Design-136310

Job Location: Denton

Salary: Compensation is competitive and commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications, experience, and discipline, in accordance with university guidelines and available funding.

FTE: Varies based on assignment

Retirement Eligibility: ORP Eligible

The College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas invites applications for a full-time, nine-month, Visiting Assistant Professor in Communication Design. The successful candidate will bring well-established professional expertise in their field, along with a strong record of teaching experience informed by innovative ideas that reflect the future of communication design. They will teach undergraduate and graduate students in the User Experience Design/Interaction Design Concentration, fostering forward-thinking, practice-based learning.

The candidate will also demonstrate a well-developed industry network, supporting connections between academic inquiry and professional practice. In addition to teaching, the candidate will develop a focused service/community outreach agenda and will interface with and assist in initiatives related to CVAD’s newly established Curiosity Lab, an interdisciplinary innovation engine that integrates human-centered design, experiential learning, and advanced technologies—including AI, immersive media, and material fabrication—to prepare students and faculty for emerging creative economies.

The college’s standard teaching workload is six courses per academic year, with possible course credits for work associated to the Curiosity Lab. Additional responsibilities include student mentorship, professional development, service to the communication design program, college, university, and profession, and continued enhancement of the design department creating community and industry partnerships. This position is limited to a maximum of three years.

• Completed relevant graduate degree (MS, MA, MFA).
• Active record of professional practice.
• Minimum of ten years of professional practice in communication design with a focus on user experience and interaction design.

• Evidence of university-level teaching experience.
• Evidence of professional communication design experience, including publication design, digital/web/interactive design, user experience design, and interaction design.
• Fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud software:
  Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop.
• Professional and/or teaching experience with interaction design, including prototyping methods and software such as Figma, Figma Make, Google Stitch, Framer, Web Flow, etc.
• Experience developing and delivering design thinking workshops or seminars for professional and/or industry audiences.

This is a Security Sensitive Position.

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