Chief Linguist - semiotician - language acquisition specialist; remote unpaid collaboration

We believe in the importance of communication, and visual languages are part of this vision. We all use emojis, GIFs, and many other visual communication forms in our daily lives already. Our mission is to create the world's first fully functional language based on visual icons, used across all major social media channels.

We're a team of linguists, technologists, and designers passionate about the potential of making communication simple, direct, and impactful.

Ikon is the name of the language, and Komunikon is the association behind the project. We're ambitious and open-minded. Reach out if you believe you can positively contribute to our mission and are ready to take action. Check our website here  for current openings and ongoing projects.

• Experience in at least one of the following fields: semantics, semiotics, visual semiotics, emoji, visual languages, planned languages, and language acquisition.
• Experience in leading successful creative projects
• Communication skills, with the ability to engage and collaborate with diverse teams, and effective messaging.
• A passion for visual communication and a strong alignment with our mission to make language accessible to all.

• Create descriptions for graphic designers on how to build icons representing words. This will involve semantic, semiotic, and cultural research and more. You will also help us with the database for the App: add and organize icons, and translate the icon meaning in several languages.
• It is our aim to use IKON for teaching purposes such as language learning. So, knowledge or experience in the field is appreciated.
• If experienced in language acquisition:
  You will collaborate with the linguist team and other teams to guide the development of strategies and frameworks to propose IKON as a language teaching tool, providing both educators and students a visual tool to integrate into the daily language learning routine.

some hours per week.

you will work in a very proactive environment, with many polyglots from all over the world, and you will apply your knowledge to a concrete project.

If you are a potential candidate for this cool position, contact us. Please send a link to your CV and the link to your Linked In profile (if you have one), and a few sentences about your motivation for this role. Please explain why you are fine with an unpaid collaboration and what drives you to volunteer with us.