2021 AIGA Career Festival
November 9–10, 2021
Virtual
Hire and get hired. AIGA invites you to the most dynamic career event of its kind.
Find a Design Job
Hire Top Creative Talent
Your Front Row Seat to the Creative Hiring Process
Get Hired
AIGA is here to help you take your career to the next level. Join us for the inaugural AIGA Career Festival to meet employers, gain actionable insights from creative recruiters, and find your next job opportunity. This two-day event features one-on-one handshake hours with companies, exclusive job opportunities, Fireside Chats with design leaders, and workshops to hone your personal pitch.
Find Talent
Looking for design talent? AIGA’s networked community of recent grads, emerging, experienced, and senior level designers is the place to start. Join us for an immersive virtual experience connecting you with qualified professionals at every level and design discipline, and showcase your company and open design positions to a dynamic audience of job seekers looking for their next career opportunity.
Event Sessions & Schedule Overview
Fireside Chat
Wednesday, November 10, 11:00–11:45 a.m. ET
Tune in as AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson talks with a leader in design, business, and technology, focused around the topics of leadership growth, the future of work, and creating a culture of design.
Virtual Handshake Hours
12:00–1:00 p.m. ET daily
3:00–4:00 p.m. ET daily
取advantage of twice-daily opportunities to meet face-to-face with design-led companies and agencies to network, ask questions, and learn more about open roles, company culture, and typical types of clients/projects.
Design Career Journeys Team Talks
1:30–2:30 p.m. ET daily
Wondering where to go next or how to get there? Tune in for 1-hour panel discussions (with Q&A) to hear from designers sharing the varied paths that led them to their current roles, and see how unique each design career journey can be.
Workshops
4:30–6:00 p.m. ET daily
购买一个“全接触”门票升级你的年代kills with two AIGA Career Festival workshops geared towards providing actionable advice to help you hone your personal pitch and grow in your career.
Attendee Networking Channel
Available to attendees November 1–30
During the month of November, a private Slack group for all attendees will be active. Attendees will have the chance to connect, network, and share portfolios and contact information.
Daily Design Career Mixers
6:15–7:00 p.m. ET daily
Cap off each day with some low-pressure high-enjoyment social time. Come for the networking stay for the company and leave with new leads and some great laughs.
Thank You to Our Hiring Partners
A + I
A+I is Architecture Plus Information, an award-winning strategy-led design agency.
我们设计more than architecture. We use information and creativity to better the changing world we inhabit.
With an investigative lens, we apply critical thinking, rooted in architecture, to solve increasingly complex problems, and build more meaningful, more complete and more integrated design solutions. By applying our ideology in new ways, we help courageous organizations on the cusp of transformation see themselves more clearly, embrace change, and propel their business and their people forward by showing up in the physical world with purpose. Our spaces embody our client's ambition.
Most importantly, we build empathy. We make space for people to do remarkable things because we believe it's the people that give power to a place.
Architecture powers our thinking.
Information powers our solutions.
People power the rest.
Architecture Plus.
Coforma
Coforma works with the government and private sector to craft creative digital solutions and build technology products that improve people’s lives. They’ve honed a modern, agile, user-centered approach that elevates human needs through thoughtfully-designed systems and products. They’re dedicated to reshaping the way communities access and utilize technology products. Together. Visit them atcoforma.io
Kimley-Horn
Kimley-Horn is one of the nation's premier planning and engineering design consultants. Our team members tell us we're not like other consulting firms. In fact, we're not like most companies in general. The quality of our people, culture, clients, and our approach to business sets us apart. We recruit passionate, driven people, who, through their work, discover untapped talents and interests.
At Kimley-Horn, our in-house creative teams are integral to every aspect of our business. We use design to differentiate Kimley-Horn in the marketplace; to create understanding around and excitement for projects in local communities; and to energize and connect our employees.
Our creative community of 60+ designers constantly share inspiration, techniques, and ideas. We are organized in small design studios embedded in our offices in Philadelphia, Northern Virginia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Nashville, Atlanta, Orlando, West Palm Beach, Dallas, Austin, Houston, Phoenix, Denver, Orange County Sacramento, St. Paul, and Warrenville, IL.
Microsoft
Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft Design & Research Team is hiring! Please join us during our Virtual Handshake we will have Albert Shum CVP of Design and his team on 11/10 @ 12PM EST to connect with UX professionals from Microsoft product teams. See Microsoft's open design roleshere.
SARANKCO
Founded in 2007, SARANKCO partners with clients big and small to define experiences, develop brands, and create meaningful communications that generate awareness, influence behavior, and drive engagement.
Our talented team offers a high level of expertise across strategy, copywriting, and visual design that is unmatched by similarly sized creative studios. We work collaboratively to meet challenges head-on, creating innovative print and digital solutions flawlessly executed for top brands, including American Express, Sephora, Leading Hotels of the World, First Manhattan, and Hearthside Foods.
As a certified LGBT Business Enterprise with the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), championing diversity and inclusion is core to our beliefs. We are headquartered in New York City, with a remote hybrid team that is spread across the five boroughs, Connecticut, New Jersey, and beyond.
Check us out at:www.sarankco.com
Sterling
Sterling is a leading consumer branding and packaging design firm with offices in New York, Cincinnati and San Francisco. For over 25 years, our design, strategy, and innovation teams have worked to bring brands to life across the full spectrum of consumer experiences. We work in every category, considering the physical and digital shelf, and have broad experience across food, grocery, beverages, wine and spirits, toys, athletic wear, beverages, pet care, telecom, QSR, cosmetics and more.
The Wix Playground Academy
The Wix Playground Academy is dedicated to facilitating the creative education of the next generation of web designers. Through project-based learning, experimental activities, and personal mentorship, students discover their creative identity and build their online presence.
Xandr
Xandr is a data-enabled technology platform, powering a global marketplace for premium advertising. Working at the intersection of digital advertising and TV advertising, we are uniquely positioned to build products that move the industry forward and reimagine what is possible.
The Xandr Product Design Team creates the interfaces that power these industry-leading advertising products. We work closely with buyers and sellers, to better understand their needs and to solve their greatest challenges for the future.
Our userbase is data-driven, efficient, strategic, and collaborative - so our projects often include designing complex workflows, handling large data sets, and architecting future-proof products. Our Product Designers are skilled in interaction design, information architecture, workflow analysis, user research, and close collaboration with Product Managers and Engineers. We are curious and motivated to understand macro systems and micro complexities. We have big ideas for what the future can hold, while also making an impact in the present.
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What We've Learned
Being cognizant of the future and emerging trends has never been more critical for the design community. The AIGA Design POV research initiative found that new technologies such as AI/machine learning(49%), augmented reality/virtual reality (38%), collaborative design software (33%), online behavior tracking/modeling (28%); and telepresence/virtual workplaces (25%) are top emerging trends that will potentially have the biggest impact on the profession.
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