# Julia Teitelbaum > UX Designer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/juliateitelbaum ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Semgrep Jan 2022 – Present Semgrep enables software developers and security professionals to easily detect and address security vulnerabilities in their code. ### Head Of Design and Digital @ YIMBY Action Jan 2020 – Present YIMBY Action advocates for policy change to allow for abundant, inclusive housing. I help accomplish that mission by applying my skills and knowledge in technology and design. Technology responsibilities: Managing and improving our websites, data management, automations, and tech tools in order to maximize the impact of staff and volunteers, and to support membership growth and organizing goals. Design responsibilities: Defining a visual brand that conveys the identity of the organization, and creating tools and templates for others to make brand-aligned graphics. Creating high priority graphics and advising on experience design best practices, including user research and information architecture. ### Lead User Experience Designer @ Cisco Meraki Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Designed platform-level changes to enable more effective monitoring and troubleshooting across all product lines. Also worked on designs for an agile team iterating on key competitive features. Aligned short-term improvements with long-term vision. Created visualizations to relate data/metrics to user scenarios and root causes of problems. Synthesized research insights into stories to build empathy for users across the product organization. ### UX Design Team Lead @ Cisco Meraki Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area As Head of Design, designed our interview process, hired, and managed a team of 5 product designers. Built cross-functional relationships with engineering, product management, support, strategy, training, and sales. Advocated for process changes to enable better design, such as increased use of analytics data, more iteration, and closer cross-functional collaboration. ### UX Designer @ Cisco Meraki Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 Designed software tools for managing networking and IP devices (phones, security cameras, sensors). Did work end-to-end, including discovery research, low fidelity mockups and prototypes, usability testing, high fidelity mockups, CSS tweaks, etc. Worked on launches of two new product lines and many features, large and small. Simplified complex workflows and data. Advised and instructed junior designers, product managers, and engineers on research and interaction design. ### Interaction Designer and User Experience Leadership Program Associate @ GE Software Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Designed products for users of industrial equipment to operate, maintain, monitor, and optimize that equipment. For an application for power plant managers, designed features to analyze start-ups and determine optimal timing for maintenance. Worked closely with business analyst, program manager, product manager, and dev team lead to plan product roadmap. Led efforts to improve UI standardization and front-end development practices. For applications for gas turbine operators and technicians, conducted and synthesized field research with operators, designed new version of standard UI elements for applications, and wrote new UX/UI guidelines aimed at controls engineers who implement and deploy the applications. ### Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Designed iPad app to facilitate data collection, analysis, and sharing for teachers and caregivers of children with special needs. Created low and high fidelity design prototypes and ran weekly user tests in iterative design process. Worked with two developers on back-end and front-end development. ### Teaching Assistant for 67-272 @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Taught students about web application design and development in Ruby on Rails. Course concepts included model-view-controller pattern, database design and querying, HTML/CSS/JS and separation of concerns, version control (with Git), basics of UX and UI design. ### Product Manager Intern @ Redfin Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, California Wrote specification for, designed, and prototyped open house planner feature for iPhone. Documented and planned A/B tests for three release cycles. Created responsive web version of agent contact form. Designed and coded new “Redfin Featured Listing” ads, which performed 178% better in the initial A/B test. ### UX Design Intern @ Noodle Education Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | New York, New York Created a prototype for a new sign-up process to increase conversion rate. Designed and prototyped an iPhone app for students on college tours. Consulted on UI design and user research practices. ### UX Designer @ Teach for America Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | New York, New York Conducted user research and worked with stakeholders to develop product strategy. Sketched UX concepts and created user flows for internal Teach for America applications. ### Technology Consultant @ Pittsburgh Public Schools Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Worked with curriculum specialist and teachers to create a web application to manage the Physics curriculum and facilitate collaboration among teachers. Advised on adoption of electronic textbooks and on iPad rollout to schools. ### Web Designer and Developer @ ChemCollective (Yaron Research Group, Carnegie Mellon University) Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Greater Pittsburgh Area Chemcollective.org website provides online resources for teaching and learning chemistry. Redesigned website information architecture, usability, and branding. Reengineered site using Codeigniter PHP MVC framework. Consulted on UI design for chemistry simulations and “Virtual Lab” product. ## Education ### Majors in Information Systems & Human-Computer Interaction in Minor in Communication Design Carnegie Mellon University ### Executive Education in Innovation and Human-Centered Design, d.school Stanford University ### Cherry Creek High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/juliateitelbaum - Portfolio: http://julia-t.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/juliateitelbaum JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/juliateitelbaum/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25