Level up your design career.

We strongly believe strong talent exists regardless of prestige or pedigree, and the goal of our program is to help connect rising stars in design with the connections and support system necessary to succeed in Silicon Valley. As such, while there are no minimum years' experience or degree requirements to join Modu, we do recommend the following:

→ At least 1-2 years' experience working in a professional setting as a designer (this may include internships)
→ Existing experience working on self-directed design projects (where you were not directly assisting a senior IC)
→ At least some experience working on end-to-end design challenges (where you were responsible for crafting lightweight brand, design systems, and screens)

For some, this may consist of previous contract work or full-time design experience; for others, a mixture of an academic background + paid design work, or internships + hackathons, may suffice. In your application, we recommend that you provide us as much context as possible about your experience so we can best understand your level and whether or not you are a fit for Modu.

Modu Fellowship is structured to provide maximum flexibility for Fellows to use as much or as little of the resources provided as is necessary or helpful to each Fellow. With that in mind, we recommend Fellows devote a minimum of 10-20 hours/week in order to fully benefit from the program.

Until the conclusion of the global pandemic, the Modu Fellowship will operate as a fully remote program.
While there are no restrictions based on location or timezone, and we welcome participants from all over the world, many of the designers offering their time to mentor Fellows will be based in the United States, mostly San Francisco and New York (PST and EST). In order to take most advantage of the Fellowship experience, it may be necessary to adjust your schedule to allow for more common hours with these timezones if yours is different.

There are costs associated with running the Fellowship, including curriculum preparation, sourcing and vetting projects, building the software platform we use to highlight Fellow successes to hiring partners, and compensating our design mentors for the office hours they make available to Fellows. In order to ensure we provide Fellows with an excellent online experience in the Fellowship's inaugural class, we are waiving any and all attendance fees. Our goal long-term is to make Modu available based on talent, not based on financial status, and so while attendance fees may be considered, we are currently exploring a variety of options to help keep Modu financially sustainable in the long term.
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Fellowship 2 cost details will be released soon -- sign up for updates.

Limited slots are still available in our employer Demo Day; if you'd like to participate or otherwise get in touch with us, please email us at hello@modufellowship.com.