IRL: Getting noticed as a UX Designer: Interviewing & Hiring Strategies

Join us for an engaging and informative event where we will be joined by industry leaders to answer questions about interviewing & hiring strategies in UX Design.

Agenda:
6:30 - 7 pm: Networking, opening remarks
7:00 - 8:00 pm: Panel interview and Q&A
8:00 - 9:30 pm - Networking

PANEL GUESTS

Randi Wallace
Randi is the People & Operations manager for Normative, a Canadian innovation firm specializing in design & software development. Starting her career at lululemon, she spent 8 years learning how to create and implement strong People & Culture strategies. This included hiring, onboarding, and training. Using this skillset, she then transitioned into a formal recruiting role with HelloFresh Canada. Here, she hired for teams across the business from marketing to procurement.

After a year, she joined HelloFresh’s Global tech team. Here, she was not only responsible for hiring all levels and areas of the North American tech hub, but she also built out their tech early careers program from the ground up. Now, in her current role, she builds people & culture strategy, including the sourcing & hiring of talented folks just like you!

Marjorie Castro
Marjorie is a Product Designer and Manager with over a decade of experience in the industry. She has worked with notable companies such as Scotiabank, ChumFM, Rogers, Expedia, and Workopolis, and has a passion for using design, tech, and collaboration to reimagine our world. After leading web and mobile projects for multiple digital agencies, Marjorie transitioned to the product side of things.

She has worked with Toronto-based startups like Hoo Events, BCM Exchange (later acquired by Bitbuy), and CareGuide where she was instrumental in scaling the design and research practice. She is also a co-founder of Latinx in Tech Toronto, a community that seeks to improve the visibility of Latin folks in the tech industry.

Amanda Hoff
Amanda is a lover of the human experience who uses empathy and research to create insight-led, human-centered experiences that ensure both business and user needs are met. Over the past several years she has worked at start-ups and large organizations collaborating with diverse multidisciplinary teams at the intersection of technology and healthcare. Amanda leads projects while fostering relationships with both designers and stakeholders to establish design practices that people want to work with and be a part of.

Currently, she is at Sun Life empowering people to live healthier lives through innovative solutions, formally at Manulife improving their group benefits experiences while leading the adoption of their Canadian design systems. Previously at Opencare changing the way patients and dentists interact.