Students
Students come to the Parsons MS SDM program from all over the world. Their experience combines studios, seminars, networking, events, symposia, and more. This page will inform you about student projects like First Year Studio and Second Year Studio, student resources, and other opportunities.
New Job Opportunities
See job openings and descriptions below. Communications Research Assistant @HML: Healthy Material Lab is hiring a research assistant to support their Communications team with graphic design and social media. APPLY HERE 2023 Intern – Experience Design @Adobe Adobe is seeking someone to join their dynamic growing team, think holistically about design, and help build the future of creative tools for creatives. APPLY HERE
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Design and Media Career Fair Fall 2022
Join the Fall 2022 Design and Media Creer Fair on Thursday, October 27th, from 1-4pm. Register and participate virtually through an online chat. The chat will connect you directly with organizations from the comfort of your home, office, smartphone or tablet. Register here
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2023 Communications and Content Design Intern @ IBM
The EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) design team @ IBM is looking for a curious, pragmatic, and driven communications and content design intern. The ideal candidate’s primary interests and skills revolve around helping people understand the value of IBM solutions and guiding users with messaging that helps them achieve their goals. APPLY HERE
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Career Advising Fall 2022
Attention current MS SDM Students! We are happy to announce that we are bringing back our MS SDM Career Advising sessions from Monday, November 7th – Friday, November 11th. In these Advising sessions, MS SDM Faculty and Alumni meet with current students for the chance to voice their aspirations and questions about life in the design world post-graduation. This year, Career Advising sessions will be conducted in small groups in 45-minute virtual sessions. You can sign up to join in these group sessions by End of Day Friday, October 21st using the Career Advising Sign-Up Form (Please find the…
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Networking Thursday Stories: Aditya Rao
Aditya Rao (SDM’23) interned as a Design Strategist at ThinkPlace over the summer of ’22 after participating in Networking Thursday during his 1st year as a graduate student in the MS Strategic Design & Management program. In discussing his experience through Networking Thursdays, Rao said: “Networking Thursday events gave me the opportunity to build relationships that were key to schedule interviews with different companies. The more chances I got to speak the better I got at it” About Networking Thursdays The MS SDM Employment Initiative’s goals are to reach out to potential employers, to make them aware of SDM…
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Job Opportunity: Sr. UX designers & Design Lead, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
JP Morgan Chase & Co. is looking for senior and lead designers to help them improve the J.P. Morgan Private Bank experience. They’ve got an established design community that will help you to do great work. See job openings and descriptions below. Job Openings: User Experience Design Lead Senior User Experience Designer
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MS SDM Student Winning Siegel+Gale 2022 Intern Project
Valentina Palacios (SDM’23) worked as a brand strategist intern for Siegel+Gale 2022 Intern Project. Congratulations to her and her team on winning the challenge. About the Winning Project The interns were tasked with a fictitious prompt: an investor purchased the rights to the Blockbuster brand and is reinventing it as a streaming aggregator—a single app that partners with and provides access to a vast variety of streaming app content and subscriptions in one place. The interns reimagined the iconic brand, weaving both nostalgia and innovation into the final presentations. View their winning presentation here. About Siegel+Gale Siegel+Gale is…
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Navigating Internships | SDM Edition
We are conducting a session on ‘Navigating Internships’ for first-year SDM students on Sep 16 at 12 pm EST. During this one-hour session, we have invited a select set of second-year students who have just completed their internships and are willing to share their experience, information, and tips on landing an internship. Please RSVP to calendar invitation to attend. For any questions or queries, please reach out to dhairya@newschool.edu. Moderator: Dhairya Sathvara: Service Design Intern, Intuit Panelists: Saumya Ghai: Design Strategist, Infosys, Wongdoody Shunichiro Tago: Venture Strategist, Newlab, Venture Studio Ria Jain: Strategy intern, DDB New York Pam…
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Looking for Social Media Volunteer
Open to all current MS SDM students! Our Instagram account is student-run, and we’re looking for 2-3 current students to share their moments inside or outside of the classroom and help amplify voices in our community throughout our social media channels. This includes IG Takeovers, original content, and… (open to you!) If you are interested, please reach out to Claire Zhuang (zhuay436@newschool.edu) before September 22nd.
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Creative AI Hackathon
This two-day hackathon is an experimental research event. The activities will be in-person on the TNS campus and run by a team of Parsons faculty and LG AI Research. The participants will be given exclusive access to the latest LG AI platform and explore the different roles of AI in their creative works by either working individually or in a team. The event aims to research how emerging creative professionals 1) incorporate AI in a creative process and reflect critically and 2) use the artifacts from AI to do something creative, and 3) communicate their experience through investigative narrative….
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