Graduates are equipped to thrive as design managers, innovation leads, service designers, or sustainability consultants. They bring value to organisations by fostering collaboration, addressing complex challenges, and envisioning future scenarios, making them ideal for roles in both corporate and social sectors that require adaptive, forward-thinking professionals.
Design Managers enjoy a wide range of career opportunities: in business, non-profit and public organisations, and as entrepreneurs supporting organisational transformations. Some roles our graduates step into include:
- Design Manager: Leading and coordinating design teams within organisations.
- Innovation Strategist: Developing and implementing innovative strategies and solutions.
- EX/SX Employee or Site Experience Design Manager: Creating engaging employee journeys that fosters positive and supportive work environments.
- Organisational Development Junior Lead: Assisting organisations in transforming their structures, processes, and cultures to align with strategic goals.
- Engagement Specialist: Accelerating digital transformation, developing partnerships, fostering user engagement and designing new engagement opportunities.
- Sustainability Junior Lead: Fostering sustainable practices, circular economy principles, and strategies for achieving resilience and regeneration in organisations.
- Change Management Lead: Facilitating organisational change processes by applying design management approaches to foster learning and behaviour change.
- Service Designer: Designing and improving service experiences for customers by mapping out the journeys, identifying touch points, and opportunities for improvement.
- CX Customer Experience Design Manager: Leading initiatives to enhance the overall experience customers have with products, services, communications, and brands.
- UX/UI Design Manager: Overseeing the user experience and interface design processes.
These positions are perfect for people passionate about environmental and social responsibility, who want to be at the forefront of change and innovation.
As a design manager, you play a pivotal role in navigating the complexities of today’s evolving organisational landscape. Design managers leverage a diverse set of skills to help teams and leaders align strategies with business goals, sustainability, and inclusivity. Explore these skills to thrive as a design manager and make a meaningful impact.
Upon completing the Design Management International program at HSLU, students are prepared to embark on diverse career paths where they can drive meaningful change. Graduates are equipped to thrive as design managers, innovation leads, service designers, or sustainability consultants. They bring value to organizations by fostering collaboration, addressing complex challenges, and envisioning future scenarios, making them ideal for roles in both corporate and social sectors that require adaptive, forward-thinking professionals.
Our graduates work in diverse size and types of organizations from commercial organizations such as Roche, Victorinox, Accenture, Planted, the Swiss Design Association, Swisscom, BMW Group, Hochschule Luzern; to social organizations such as the Swiss Red Cross, Ecos, cantonal hospitals, Switzerland Tourism, MTFLabs, to start-ups and their own consultancies. Their passion and interests influence whether they work fostering innovation, transferring knowledge, facilitating information exchange, promoting the adoption of innovation, bridging teams or managing transformation.
