The Department of Design, Organisation and Strategy focuses on the interactions between design and organisations with the intention to improve and renew organisations’ strategies and thereby successfully co-create value for individuals, organisations, and society at large. With scholars coming from different domains (e.g., design, engineering, marketing, economics), DOS takes an interdisciplinary perspective on studying design practices in the areas of design, organisation and strategy.

The Department of Design, Organisation and Strategy (DOS) is looking for an interdisciplinary researcher and educator working at the intersection between organizational and entrepreneurship research and the domain of design. The candidate should be engaged with the growing relevance of design within organizational studies and, thus, operate in topic areas like design management, design thinking, design leadership, strategic design, design driven innovation. The candidate should be interested in understanding and advancing how the two fields (organizational studies and design) could benefit from each other through theoretical and methodological cross-pollination. We are looking for a future colleague that reads and publishes in journals from both disciplines and translates relevant and emerging innovation, entrepreneurship and organization theories and practices to DOS design-centered research and education.

Examples of potential areas of research include:
• Investigating the role of design in (corporate) entrepreneurship, especially in tech-driven entrepreneurial innovation.
• Studying the role of design in organizational transformations, with a focus on how design can make organizations more resilient to a rapidly changing environment for instance by facilitating the adoption of new mindsets and processes.
• Exploring new forms of organizations that support and leverage a design-oriented culture to achieve economic, social and environmental sustainability.
• Understanding how the design profession evolves as a consequence of operating in a more strategic context - e.g., new (leadership) roles for designers, new design methods and practices, new forms of impact and value creation.
• Developing or adapting design tools and methods to the purpose of designing organizational structures and processes that enhance (tech-driven) innovation (e.g. prototyping organizational practices and/or socio-technical systems)

You enjoy the scientific challenges of doing research about design in different academic domains. You are pioneering in your approach, something which will help you excel in an interdisciplinary environment where designers and researchers work across research groups, and together contribute to the larger research agenda of the department, faculty and university. Through research and teaching you will inspire your colleagues and your students.

All candidates should meet the following essential criteria:
• Has a background in design, management disciplines, or social sciences and a   demonstrable ability to conduct design-related research
• holds a PhD in a relevant area
• has a track record of conference and journal publications in areas related to the above profile
• has a collaborative attitude to research

In addition, we are looking for candidates that also meet the following desirable criteria:
• has a track record in applying, or contributing to applications, for external research funding
• has experience in supervising Masters and/or PhD students
• a postdoc or the equivalent of at least two years of postdoctoral experience
• has experience of working in international collaborations
• has experience in teaching in higher

Fixed-term contract: 5 + 1 year.

A tenure-track position is offered for six years. In the fifth year we’ll decide if you will be offered a permanent faculty position, based on performance indicators agreed upon at the start of the appointment. We expect that you have the potential to grow towards an Associate Professor and/or Full Professor role in the future.

Inspiring, excellent education is our central aim. We expect you to obtain a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) within three years if you have less than five years of teaching experience. This is provided by the TU Delft UTQ programme.
TU Delft sets high standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. The TU Delft offers training to improve English competency. If you do not speak Dutch, we offer courses to learn the Dutch language within three years.

Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount on health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged. Assistant Professors are assigned, based on experience, at Scale 11/12, € 3746 – € 5826 gross per month. Associate Professors are assigned, based on experience, at Scale 13/14, € 5190 - € 6940. 

For international applicants we offer the Coming to Delft Service and Partner Career Advice to assist you with your relocation. An International Children's Centre offers childcare and there is an international primary school.

Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context. At TU Delft we embrace diversity and aim to be as inclusive as possible (see our Code of Conduct). Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale.

Challenge. Change. Impact! 

Faculty Industrial Design Engineering

Matching the evolution of people with the speed of the revolution of technology. This is the focus of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE). Delft designers act as a bridge between advances in technology and the needs of people, organisations and society to create products, services and systems with purpose.

IDE is a leader in design research across the application areas of mobility, sustainability and health, as well as its development of design tools and methods. A 350-strong research team and over 2,000 students work together in our inspiring hall, labs and studios.

In close cooperation with industry, the public sector and NGOs we rehearse possible futures in research and education to design for a complex future.

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