Week of Nov 28, 2021

How I feel heading into the holidays

Happy December! Hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving break. There's still a bunch of career opportunities, club leadership opportunities, and design thinking events as we head into this final stretch of Fall 2021, so read on to learn more!

HaasID Leadership Transition

Sign ups are still open for HaasID VP positions for 2022! Joining the HaasID board gives you the opportunity to shape the overall Haas design and innovation community for next year and beyond. Check out this doc for more information: HaasID Leadership 2022 General Interest & Info Form. 

As a member of the board, you’ll gain experiences beyond just your position that will help with your career recruiting, presentation skills, and more! Some examples from a few of our VPs:

• VP Academics: Connect with alumni and other members of the Haas & Bay Area design/innovation community
• VP Communications: Stay in the loop on weekly career openings, gain website layout skills, practice branding and marketing
• VP Community: Connect and collaborate with design programs at Berkeley and other universities, organize fun social events to connect HaasID members
• VP Innovation Challenge: Connect with sponsors at IDEO and Bay Area tech companies, flex your event planning skills
• VP Workshops: Build public speaking skills, practice explaining design principles, event planning (online & in person), meet new folks across classes & Cal programs, demonstrate design on your resume, work on a great team!

Still on the fence? Feel free to reach out to any of us if you’d like to chat further.
 

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

PayPal
Str. Product Insights, Market Research
PayPal is looking for someone to join its Product team and help develop actionable insights to guide senior Product leaders. From the job description: "You’ll be working with senior stakeholders, from the C-suite to operational leaders, across geographies, businesses, and functions to bring clarity to their most pressing decisions. You’ll be responsible for designing and building scalable, sustainable solutions that illuminate the market, product, and customer landscape for entire organization." Learn more and apply here.
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Ferrara
Innovation Brand Lead
Ferrara Candy Company, owned by the Ferrero Group, is an American candy company that produces candies such as Nerds, Laffy Taffy, and Trolli. The company is looking for a brand lead in charge of the brand's innovation pipeline, specifically in the Cookies category. You will: "Assist with the development of a multi-year innovation roadmap by linking overall brand strategy with appropriate category + competitive analyses...Partner with Consumer Insights to assess innovation concepts, validate innovations marketing mix and look for unmet needs across consumers." Learn more and apply here.

Mint House
Product Manager
Mint House is a hospitality startup with 20+ hotels in 14 cities, focused on tech-focused experiences that combine the classic comfort of home and the modern luxury of a hotel. It is looking for a product manager to "partner with Product team to define and manage product roadmap for future development based on market opportunities and guest experience needs" and "conduct research and analysis to understand the needs of the market and consumer, with an emphasis on creating sustainable competitive advantage." Learn more and apply here.

Internships

frog
Strategy Intern (Summer 2022-Graduate Internship Program)
frog is looking for strategy interns to join their offices in New York, San Francisco, and Mexico City this summer. From the job description: "As a Strategy Intern at frog, you will collaborate with strategists, designers, technologists, and program managers to envision and create new products, services, and experiences. You may work across any stage of the product development lifecycle but your role is to ensure that the concepts and designs are sensitive to both the needs of users and our clients’ businesses." Applications are due December 12. Learn more and apply here.

Strategy Intern, Commercial Strategy
frog is looking for a strategy intern, commercial strategy for its New York office. As a commercial strategist, you will be responsible for: "Financial analysis and assessment of client’s existing operations; Category assessment, competitive analysis and projections of future growth; Financial modeling and revenue forecasting for potential initiatives; Developing powerful company, category and channel insights." Applications are due December 12. Learn more and apply here.

Adobe
Design Strategy Intern
Adobe's Design Strategy team is looking for a strategist to help solve huge, abstract problems. In this role, you will “Help with research and discovery to better understand our opportunities or challenges from multiple perspectives (i.e. user perspective, business perspective, technological perspectives, futurist perspective, etc); Synthesize insights into cases that will help leaders align on the problem we should solve for; Define frameworks, solutions, and model the projected impact of those solutions across relevant business metrics.” Learn more and apply here.

DocuSign
Service Design Intern - Graduate Level
DocuSign’s Product Experience team is looking for an intern to work remotely over the summer, reporting to its Product Experience Architect. From the job description: “As a Service Design Intern, you will be responsible for becoming a subject matter expert in our product offerings in order to diagnose the root cause of challenges our product teams face today...We’re looking for a talented, passionate and efficient designer that uses data to drive key business decisions and tell a compelling story.” Learn more and apply here.

Visa
Master's Intern, Design Research, Innovation
Visa is looking for a master's intern to join its design research team, which sits under the product team. The innovation team focuses on generative and iterative user research for projects with external partners, Product, Innovation, and Visa Consulting Analytics. From the job description: "You'll be immersed in various types of research (generative, iterative, and summative) throughout the course of your internship. Alongside the research team, you’ll interact with clients to understand how research will support their business strategies and roadmaps." Learn more and apply here.

McDonalds
MBA Consumer Insight Internship
McDonalds is looking for a summer intern to join its Chicago headquarters. This is a position that sits under the marketing department, focused on consumer insights. "Projects may potentially include work in: personalized marketing, segmentation, and measurement analysis; offer strategy; loyalty strategy; data and innovation strategy; personalizing the commerce journey; benchmarking and best practice research." Learn more and apply here.

Meta
Design Prototyper Intern, Instagram AR
Instagram’s AR Design team is looking for a prototyper intern who has experience in 2D/3D design, motion graphics, and/or interactive/game design. From the job description: “You will be responsible for contributing to the overall process of AR development, translating original concepts into compelling interactive experiences that will resonate with a global audience. You’ll work with and get feedback from the Design, Engineering and Product management teams across Instagram.” Learn more and apply here.
 

A Little Inspiration...

Reduce, Reuse, ReTuna: How a Systems Thinking approach helped reinvent a Swedish city: A long-read article about how the city of Eskilstuna in Sweden used systems thinking to revamp itself into an “ecocity” focused on sustainable living. Eskilstuna is now home to the first shopping mall in the world that only sells repaired, restored, and recycled goods and has been hailed as the “world capital of recycling.”

Podcast: IDEO U Creative Confidence - Frameworks for Organizational Change: In this episode, Joe Brown, an executive director at IDEO, shares three frameworks you can use to approach organizational change management: the motivation model, the reverse cascade, and stop, start, continue. 

‘Mind Hacking’ Your Way to Self-Improvement: Advice from social psychologist Patrycja Slawuta on how to get out of your own way and start creating — starting with treating your mind as “living code” that can be hacked and re-programmed.
 

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
Thinkful Webinar | Intro to UX/UI Design: User Research
"Join us in this webinar to get introduced to some of the proven techniques within this space, learn how to develop better user experiences, and how those skills will put you in high demand in this exciting career.

What you will learn:

• What is the UX/UI Design Process
• Discover the different types of user research
• How human behavior applies to user research
• And so much more..."

The Product School: Design Thinking for Product Development by Amazon Sr PM
"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