# Claire Rausser > Lead Designer at Unearth | Digitizing thrift store intake and resale Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/clairerausser As founder of Unearth, I’m building technology that brings transparency and accountability to the fashion industry’s material flows. Our mission is to make circularity not just possible, but profitable—aligning environmental integrity with local business growth. I believe that good design is honest, equitable, and strategic, and that every innovation we build should move us closer to a world where sustainability is simply the standard. I'm a Bay Area-raised product designer with a focus in design systems and user research. I have a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Sustainable Design with an emphasis in both design thinking and waste reduction. ## Work Experience ### Founder, Designer @ Unearth Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area - Built and leads a cross-functional team of designers, engineers, and business strategists to develop Unearth’s MVP — a digital intake platform for secondhand stores. - Directs end-to-end product delivery, from concept and high-fidelity design to prototyping and technical handoff, ensuring design integrity and scalability for future iterations. - Conducts extensive user research with thrift store owners and employees through surveys, interviews, and in-person visits to validate store pain points and secure early partnership interest (LOIs). ### Climatebase Fellow @ Climatebase Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA ### User Experience Researcher @ Dictionary.com Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Conducted 75+ usability studies and co-led 45+ user interviews, providing critical product insights. Explored complex, ambiguous problem spaces, collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand opportunities. ### Product Designer @ Dictionary.com Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Led design and managed the design system for Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and GrammarCoach.com across mobile, tablet, and web for 40M+ monthly users. Rebuilt the global navigation header, integrating competitive research, business objectives, and real-world constraints into high-fidelity, resulting in a 45% improvement in ad-viewability. Designed CX and partnered with machine-learning developers to integrate AI writing suggestions into the Grammar Coach grammar editing software. ### Product Designer @ BurdaLuxury Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote Overhauled UX for an e-commerce platform, boosting conversion rates by 30% through enhanced UI and interaction design. Collaborated cross-functionally with product managers, user researchers, and engineers to present mock-ups and prototypes, ensuring alignment on goals, scope, and strategy. ### User Experience Designer @ Sustainability Matters Today Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Grew the user base by 87% year over year by crafting a user-centric website for a podcast client via wireframing, iterative prototyping, and A/B testing. ### Sustainability Specialist @ Roche Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, CA Directed environmental programs, reported cross-functionally, implemented three-stream waste sorting across campus, leading to 40% less contamination within waste streams. ### Masters of Public Policy (MPP) Program Assistant @ University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley Headed building energy footprint program, implementing recycling and composting programs, decreasing waste contamination by 70% over a three month period. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Sustainable Environmental Design University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/clairerausser - Website: http://unearthrift.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/clairerausser JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/clairerausser/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-08