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Join us.

Interested? 🔎

In every applicant, we above all look for people that want to use their talents and skills to make a difference. No matter your experience, we strive to be as inclusive as possible and give passionate people a chance to grow and learn with us.

SP24 Recruitment Timeline

Application Opens*

Wednesday, January 3rd

Information Sessions

Thursday, January 25th, 4:30-6pm and

Wednesday, January 31st, 7:30-9pm

@ Phillips 219

Applications Due

Thursday, February 1st, 11:59pm

Interviews

Behavioral: February 7th-8th

Technical: February 10th-11th

Offer Rollout Begins

February 14th-16th

* Applications are NOT considered on a rolling basis *

Application 🖊

  • What We're Looking For

    Above all, someone who is willing to fully dedicate themselves to using product thinking, empathy, and creativity to solve a problem. A designer should understand the basic design process, intuitively or from practice, and being able to fluidly give and receive feedback is a must. We also recommend having done at least one case study or project from a portfolio, as well as experience in Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, or a similarly capable graphic design application.

    What You'll Do

    You will take on all of the responsibilities held by various design positions within the industry, as well as help make high-level strategic decisions for the product you're working on. You will do user and market research, interviewing members of your target audience and turning data points into actionable requirements for your project. You will work with low, medium, and high fidelity mockups to create user interfaces and interactions, and iterate with critiques and feedbacks from other team members. Lastly, you will actively test your solution and get user feedback to further improve upon the product.

  • What We're Looking For

    You should be an inventive and communicative individual with a desire to learn new technologies and apply them to real-world problems. You should have some background in computer science or app/web development, but specific technologies will be taught within your project and we do not expect applicants to understand every aspect of application development.

    What You'll Do

    You will be the backbone of a project, working closely with designers and other developers to bring concepts into reality. Front-end developers create everything a user will see. A front-end developer must implement mockups from designers while collaborating with back-end developers on the projects’ constraints and requirements. Back-end developers handle all the data processed behind the scenes. A back-end developer must understand the needs of front-end developers to create an informed and practical data source.

  • What We're Looking For

    Someone with excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational, verbal, written and presentation communication and interpersonal skills. You should have an eye for finding impactful problems to solve using technology. With some general understanding of product and design thinking and how the technical stack works, you should be able to find a well-defined problem and guide designers and developers towards building out the right solution.

    What You'll Do

    You will be taking on the responsibility of successfully delivering the product by guiding products throughout their execution cycle, from problem defining, market/user research, road mapping, to defining product requirements and overseeing the final deployment of product. You will be working closely with designers and developers throughout the product cycle, bridging the gap between design and tech through excellent communication and an understanding of how to prioritize requirements for delivery. Outside of working with your team members, you will be also expected to fill in the gap for any roles necessary, from scheduling meetings, creating relationships with administrations, collaborating with other student organizations, to helping unblock your designers and developers.

  • What We're Looking For

    Someone who is passionate and creative about working on projects that impact the larger community. You do not need to know how to code or have any business experience; instead we want to see someone who can take initiative to make connections with the community and help expand the reach of the club. We are looking for someone who can take on abstract tasks, be at strategic or administrative, and carry them.

    What You'll Do

    You will develop the team’s strategy for outreach, marketing, and finance. You will help plan G-Body meetings, partner with members of the Cornell administration and student body to create events, and reach out to corporate partners to bring them on as Sponsors. Creating new ways of streamlining processes and sustaining positive morale through team building events and an active social media presence are pivotal to the success of not just our products, but also the success of DTI as a project team.

The recruitment cycle for this semester has concluded. Please check back in the fall!

Coffee Chat Us ☕️

Sign up to chat with members on our team!

You can learn more about what we do by sending an email to any of the members on this spreadsheet.

You can also match with one of our members by filling out this form. Our coffee chats are designed for you to ask us any questions about our team and find out more about DTI!

Next Steps? 💬

Application Review

We look through every single application we receive. We fully understand and don’t expect that everyone has a significant amount of past experience.

Taking into account your year and past coursework, we will assess your interest in being a part of Cornell Design & Tech Initiative and your willingness to learn and make a significant contribution.

Interviews

Shortly after applications close, we will offer interviews to candidates we are interested in. We unfortunately cannot interview everyone, although we would like to! These interviews serve as a chance to get to know you in person.

We have one behavioral and one technical round for each role interview. During these interviews, talk about your past experience and interest in our team. Then, we will initiate some role-specific exercises to further gauge your thought process and skill set.

Decisions? 🗞

Notification

Whether or not you receive an interview invitation, we will email you a definitive decision within a week of applying!

We’re happy to answer any questions you have during this time through our email hello@cornelldti.org.

Have any questions?