Week of Dec 5, 2021

It's the final stretch of the semester! We're almost there!

I'll keep this short and sweet...we have some exciting news this week! If you haven't seen already on Slack, HaasID's 2022 Co-Presidents have been confirmed! Read on to learn more about your new leaders, Neva and Britt:

Meet Your 2022 Co-Presidents!

Congratulations to our new Co-Presidents, Neva Bowers and Britt Jensen! We are thrilled to hand over leadership of the club to them, and to see the new direction and vision they will no doubt bring to life over the next year. Check out their platform (below) to learn more about them and their goals for HaasID. Congratulations again!
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Careers and Opportunities in Design
Have a career opportunity you'd like us to highlight in this newsletter? Email job details to Austin Lavin at austin_lavin@mba.berkeley.edu.

Full-Time

fuseproject
Design Strategist
fuseproject, an industrial design and branding agency with offices in San Francisco and New York, is looking for design strategists and senior design strategists to join the team. From the job description: “We’re seeking a creative, design-minded Strategist to answer the “what and why” of design. Strategists support a range of design projects, including brand development, product and digital strategy, to future business mapping, and experience and service design.” Learn more and apply here.

Silicon Valley Bank
User Researcher, New Product Innovation
Silicon Valley Bank, a commercial bank focused on funding startups, is looking for a user researcher to take a human-centered approach to identify important challenges beyond banking. Examples of ventures founded by the innovation team include Bolster and Vouch. From the job description: “As User Researcher, you will provide breakthrough insights based on analysis and synthesis of user needs, corporate strategies, enterprise capabilities and market opportunities.” Learn more and apply here.

Visa
Senior Design Researcher
The Research & Accessibility specialization under Visa’s Global Product Design team is looking for a design researcher to create UX strategies that align with business goals. From the job description: “In this role, you'll work closely with UX designers, developers and product managers to create research strategies driven by business goals and priorities. You must be results-oriented and have the ability to work independently, prioritizing many competing needs and effectively navigating ambiguity.” Learn more and apply here.

Target
Product Insights Researcher, Food + Beverage
Target is looking for a product insights researcher to lead qualitative, quantitative & sensory research for Target’s owned brand products. From the job description: “As the Product Insights Researcher for Food and Beverage, you will be a strategic thought partner and will be leading, conducting, synthesizing, and reporting on qualitative or design research projects – including, but not limited to: ethnographies, shop-a-longs, store intercepts, interviews, focus groups, immersions, immersions, digital, and product usage tests.” Learn more and apply here.

Internships

Peloton
Product Management Internship (Summer 2022)
Peloton is looking for product management interns to help own and launch new experiences in two business areas: Corporate Wellness and eCommerce Post Order. This is an 11-week internship experience that runs from June to August 2022. From the job description: “In this role, you will: Act as the voice of the customer (members, B2B employers, and internal teams) to define and validate new product requirements and specifications; Use data to define success and drive product decisions; Partner with design and engineering teams to develop new features and products.” Learn more and apply here.

Snap Inc.
Product Manager, Product -  MBA Intern
Snap Inc. is looking for a product manager intern to work out of its Los Angeles office who can dig into user research to craft strategies and drive product implementation. From the job description: In this role, you will “collaborate with designers, engineers, data scientists, and user researchers to analyze patterns and trends and identify new opportunities for growth and engagement; Create and manage a feature backlog and drive roadmap planning; Work with Engineering and Design teams to build, test, and ship user features.” Learn more and apply here.

IAS (Integral Ad Science)
UX Research Intern
IAS is a global technology and data company that builds verification, optimization, and analytics solutions for the advertising industry. From the job description: “As a UX Research Intern, you will you’ll join our 10-person team responsible for shaping and maintaining the user experience on the IAS platform. You’ll be a valued contributor to the team, working side-by-side with our lead researcher and getting hands-on with every aspect of the research process.” Learn more and apply here.

BCG Digital Ventures
Strategic Design Graduate Intern (Summer 2022)
BCG Digital Ventures is hiring strategic design interns for its New York, Manhattan Beach, and Chicago offices. From the job description: In this role, you will: “Use divergent design thinking techniques for the conceptual development of products, services and/or physical connected form-factors; Converge innovative ideas to a set of digital and tangible products, services and/or physical connected form-factors in partnership with venture architects, product managers and engineering.” Learn more and apply here.

Affirm
User Research Intern
Affirm, Inc., which includes Affirm, PayBright, and Returnly, is looking for a user research intern based remotely over the summer. From the job description: “You will play a critical role in understanding the intimate relationship people have with their finances and how it impacts their daily lives. You will bring others along in understanding how people perceive and manage their finances, and in doing so help the team build truly impactful experiences for our customers.” Learn more and apply here.
 

A Little Inspiration...

The surprising origin story of the iconic Cup Noodles: The story of how Momofuku Ando, the creator of instant ramen, created and tested the product that would later be called Cup Noodles as a way to enter the US market. A fun 6 minute read!

Podcast: Design Mind frogcast - The Magic of Storytelling: An interview with Dave Lankford, VP of Product at Disney+, on what it means to design products that tell stories, and how the magic of Disney’s in-person experiences might be translated to its digital experiences. 

Understanding Identity, Power, & Equity in Design Leadership: A talk (from May 2020) with Antionette D. Carroll, Founder, President, and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, about addressing the fundamental problems of inequity and fair representation in the design industry.
 

What’s Happening?

A overview of non-club related events that might interest you:

At UC Berkeley
Jacobs Institute: 2021 Design Showcase
Join the Jacobs Institute and the Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) for a three-day Winter Design Showcase, from December 8-10. The first two days will showcase work from DES INV and affiliated courses, Innovation Catalysts grant recipients, and student clubs. The third day will showcase project presentations from MDes students. This event is open to students and UC Berkeley affiliates only.

Dates: December 8, 9, and 10
Location: Jacobs Hall
For the full schedule, click here.
To register, click here

Outside of UC Berkeley

"Join us for this webinar as we re-live one of the 20 Best Product Talks of 2021. Being a Product Manager requires structured and organized thinking. Frameworks and toolkits are a handy and effective way to approach problems. Product Managers will learn about many and develop their own throughout their product careers.

Main takeaways:

• What is design thinking for Product Development
• Why design thinking is core to customer centricity
• How to incorporate design thinking in Product Development"

2021 HaasID Board
Co-Presidents: Andrée Heller & Meena Iyer
VPs Academics: Charlotte Harris & Matthew Gutschenritter
VPs Careers: Austin Lavin
VP Communications: Alison Fu            
VPs Community & Partnerships: Marcus Brandford & Neha Dutta     
VP EWMBA: Paulina Lee
VP Innovation Challenge: Vaibhav Anand          
VPs Workshops: Sophia Melone & Rachel Skar