Career Paths

Graduates are well positioned for careers in business, sustainability management; innovation; social enterprise; strategic and service design, and entrepreneurship in a wide range of industries, organizations, and professional fields. Students who are already working can apply their learning to become "intrapreneurs" in their current organizations or advance into novel and emerging roles such as design strategist, chief innovation officer, and lead design researcher.

Alumni Success

Graduates of this program pursue advanced study and work in positions ranging from organizational consultants to strategic designers for leading organizations, including the roles shown below.

• Lead Design Strategist, Wavicle Data Solutions
• Design Strategist, Purpose PBC
• Service Design Strategist, the City of Gainesville
• Design Strategist, Logical Design Solutions
• Senior Design Strategist, FedEx Services
• Designer, ?What If! Innovation
• User Researcher, Bose Corporation
• Service and Interaction Design Associate Manager, Fjord
• Senior Project Manager, The Lionesque Group
• Vice Dean, Universitas Pelita, Philippines
• Chief Design Officer, Afroceltic
• Strategic Design Lead, Pininfarina
• Head of Strategy and Innovation, Medtronics Labs
• Strategy Designer, Touch Ideas
• Strategy Director, AKQA
• Service Design Research Lead, Fannie Mae
• Strategic Designer, Moonraft Innovation Labs
• Design Thinking Facilitator, ExxonMobil
• Director of Innovation Strategy, Lovesac
• Digital Experience Designer, Ernst & Young
• Founder, koi strategic design
• Product Design Lead, CNBC
• Design Strategist, Gensler
• Senior UX Designer, Elastic
• Learning Experience Designer, Trilogy Education
• Senior Product Strategist, Fuzz