# Charu Juneja

> Design and Product Leader, Educator, Advisor | IDEO Alum | Design for Healing

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/charu

Multidisciplinary design and product leader, advisor, and educator who brings a business viability, user desirability, and brand lens to every challenge. Speaker, course creator, and instructor on Design for Healing.

## Work Experience
### Vice President Design @ LifeStance Health
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Adjunct Lecturer @ Stanford University Institute of Design / d.school
Jan 2025 – Present
Adjunct Lecturer for Design 162A/B: Advanced Design Impact Studio Capstone, for senior design majors interested in designing for social impact and with client partners

### Advisor @ togetherly
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Equity advisor for startup supporting parents and caregivers of struggling teens and young adults

### Founder and Designer @ Righteous Design
Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
2019-2021, 2024-2025. Sample clients include HP Innovation Lab (researching desirability of AI wearables and using an AI design research tool), UCSF, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Sutter Health, Lantern Lab, the University of Pennsylvania Center for Social Impact Strategy, and University of Texas at Austin School of Design and Creative Technologies.

### Instructor, School of Social Policy and Practice @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Greater Philadelphia Area
Course instructor for NPLD 593: Designing for Social Impact
Course creator for NPLD 5720:  Design for Recovery (Healing)

### Director of Design and Product, Design & Innovation @ Sutter Health
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led team of designers (UX/product, communications, service/research), product managers, data scientists and engineers
- Directed Covid design response, supporting video visits and vaccination experience
- Co-led design research, strategy and UX for youth mental health platform
- Directed experience design of 25 new primary care clinics
- Initiated and led nurse experience design to address burnout

### City Design & Innovation Coach @ Bloomberg Philanthropies
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Coached the city of Glendale, CA’s Innovation Team on designing and prototyping a food recovery program

### Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Architecture; and Instructor, Dell Medical School @ The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Course instructor for ARC 386M/ARI 338/ARI 388: Designing for Human Behavior
Course co-instructor for ITD 390: Design for Health

Guest Lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business, and the College of Fine Arts (School of Design and Creative Technologies)

### Director, Service Design @ Design Institute for Health
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area

### Senior Design Lead @ IDEO, Design for Health
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016

### Research, Strategy and Design Consultant @ Independent
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Sample clients include:  Stanford School of Medicine's Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), Simplee, On Lok Lifeways, Priya Living

Guest Lecturer at Stanford School of Medicine, Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC)

### Senior Consultant (Research, Strategy and Communications) @ American Foundation for Equal Rights / RALLY
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013

### VP of Marketing @ DRX
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
Led marketing for health care price transparency startup and served on senior leadership team

### Strategy Director and WPP Fellow (Leadership Rotational Pgm) @ WPP
Jan 2003 – Jan 2008 | Greater New York City Area

### Business Development Intern @ Def Jam Recordings
Jan 2002 – Jan 2002

### Senior Associate Brand Manager @ Procter & Gamble
Jan 1998 – Jan 2001


## Education
### MBA
Harvard Business School

### BA in Mathematics and Economics
Miami University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/charujuneja
- Portfolio: http://www.tellmeaboutstemcells.org
- Portfolio: http://www.fastcompany.com/fast50_07/profile/index.html?juneja274

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Last updated: 2026-04-13