Week of Oct 17, 2021
 

Happy International Sloth Day! Yes, it's a real holiday

Happy Career Week, everyone! Hope you all have been finding time to relax in between attending career sessions and thinking about your futures. (And if you need help figuring out how to relax, take some tips from the sloths.) For those of you who are interested in design-related careers, make sure to attend our upcoming career week panels (more info below!).


Upcoming Events

Career Week: HaasID Design Panel - Happening Today!

Wednesday, October 20 from 4 to 6 pm
Location: Zoom

Join us for a discussion led by CMG, where we will be discussing the many different (and somtimes unexpected) careers that design-minded individuals can pursue. This event features a panel discussion composed of Haas alumni in design-related careers.

Sign up on Campus Groups here: RSVP
 

Career Week: Design@frog

Thursday, October 21 from 2 to 3 pm
Location: Zoom

A discussion led by a Haas graduate, in which they will be discussing what it is like to pursue a design career at frog, a global design consultancy.

Sign up on Campus Groups here: RSVP

Workshop: Level Up Your Brainstorming
Thursday, October 28 from 4 to 5:45 pm
Location: TBD
Learn to substitute, combine and magnify your way to better ideas using Lewis Lin's recommended brainstorming techniques. Perfect for entrepreneurs, designers, product managers, and anyone who wants to think creatively. No prior knowledge or experience needed — we'll teach you everything you need to know!

Sign up on Campus Groups here: RSVP
 

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

PepsiCo
Innovation Designer, Global Innovation

PepsiCo is looking for a design strategist to join its design & innovation team "to effectively develop and deliver design strategies and compelling designed experiences (brand, product, packaging, retail, merchandising) that have strategic business value." This job is based in New York. Learn more and apply here.

Zillow Group
Senior Innovation Manager
Zillow is looking for a senior innovation manager to add to its Insights & Innovation team. This person will use human-centered design principles to create new customer experiences and business opportunities. They are ideally looking for someone with "experience bringing a scalable new offer to market, leading diverse and interdisciplinary teams, stewarding change, and collaborating with partners." This is a hybrid position based out of Seattle. Learn more and apply here.

Adobe
2022 University Graduate - Experience Delivery
Adobe is looking for someone to join its Field Technology & Operations team, where you'll use design thinking to improve the tools the sales team uses to interact with customers. From the job description: "Do you thrive on solving complex usability problems for diverse sets of users? Are you passionate about removing friction from applications and processes and delivering the best experiences possible? If so, we'd love to hear from you!" Learn more and apply here.

Internships

Lumen

MBA Intern

Lumen is seeking to hire 1-2 MBA interns to help the company. As a pre-money, pre-revenue startup, they have many potential paths they could take and are seeking your help to narrow these options and define Lumen's focus. Your role will be helping with customer discovery, industry analysis, and understanding the potential funding landscape for a company like ours. See full role details here.

If you are interested, please fill out this Google form by Sunday, October 24th.

Adobe
2022 Intern - User Researcher
Adobe is looking for a user research and innovation intern who has experience with qualitative research. From the job description: "You will partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, Data Scientists and more to explore new concepts and improve existing products to connect creative people worldwide to the 'magic of Photoshop and Lightroom.'" Learn more and apply here.

American Express
2022 Product Innovation Summer Internship
American Express has opened applications for its graduate student summer internship program. The intern will work in one of the following business units: Enterprise Digital & Analytics, Amex Digital Labs, or Credit Fraud Risk Capabilities. From the job description: "The core of our Company is not just the products we offer, but the personal connections our customers have with our brand. You can create digital experiences– from payments to rewards to servicing – that keep us connected to our customers and serve them at every touchpoint." Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Learn more and apply here. 

Roku
UX Researcher Intern, OneView
Roku is looking for a UX researcher intern to run research projects for its OneView advertising platform over the summer. From the job description: "You are knowledgeable about qualitative research and user-centered design methods. You’re not just excited to evaluate experiences - you have an insatiable desire to learn about people and improve user experiences from beginning to end." Learn more and apply here.
 

A Little Inspiration...

Beyond Design Thinking - Speculative Design and other design disciplines to generate disruptive ideas: A blog post that dives into the difference between traditional design thinking and speculative design, as well as what exactly speculative design entails — future design, design fiction, and critical design. 

Adjaye Associates proposes inverted supertall skyscraper for New York: A peek into the design proposal for a 1,663-feet-tall inverted skyscraper in Manhattan — trust me, it looks crazy. Even cooler, this would be the first skyscraper built by a team of Black architects, developers, lenders and builders in New York City's history.

Podcast: Design Mind frogcast - Expand Your Economic Imagination: In this episode, frog Senior Strategist Megan Nesbeth talks about how we can apply the idea of socialogical imagination to the field of economics, to think about ways to build a more equitable economy for the future.
 

What’s Happening?

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

At UC Berkeley

Jacobs Institute: Design Field Notes
"Design Field Notes is an ongoing lecture series part of the course DES INV 95. This speaker series invites a dynamic group of designers, artists, and academics in design-related fields to share their work and practice with our students and public."

October 26: Design Strategy for Technology Innovation w/ Sofia Brazzola, Brand & Marketing Manager for Sennheiser
November 2: Jingyi Li, Ph.D. Candidate at Stanford University
November 9: Sylvie Rosenthal, owner/operator of Lower Astronomy Studios

All sessions will be held from 4 to 5 pm on Zoom (linked)

Jacobs Institute: Spring 2022 Courses
Planning your spring schedule? Jacobs Hall has released its course listings for the spring semester. You can read more about the courses that will be offered on the Jacobs Hall website.

Outside of UC Berkeley
IDEO Webinar: Frameworks for Human-Centered Change
"Join us for a conversation with Joe Brown, an Executive Director in IDEO’s Organizational Impact Center of Excellence, to learn about several frameworks you can use to map out a journey of change for your team. 

We’ll talk about:
- Identifying the change journey you seek out of four common themes.
- How to keep people’s needs at the center of the change you’re mapping out.
- Fueling motivation by boosting your team’s sense of purpose and meaning."

Date & Time: Oct 27, 2021, 10 am PT
Register Here
 

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