# Neil Tekamp > Practiced Product/UX Designer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/neiltekamp My design work leads with empathy, centers on practiced methodologies, and drives impact. ## Work Experience ### Senior User Experience Designer @ GoodLeap Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ ParentSquare Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Diego, California, United States Remind was acquired by Parent Square in December of 2023. I'm contributing to our team's new combined mission to further student success through strong unified school communications. • Currently spending my time designing sign in features, standing up a designs system, product visioning, and team operations. ### Product Designer @ Remind Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area My time at Remind has been spent scaling a personalized virtual tutoring service as new line of business, building zero-to-one features, identifying and pursuing growth opportunities, all while contributing to product strategy, process improvements, and team culture. • Co-led the development of our tutoring product vision and principles to align efforts across cross-functional teams • Designed several zero-to-one features to support a new strategic product offering to school and district customers • Refined and optimized our direct-to-consumer sign up funnel driven by research and experimentation netting an estimated $300k in ARR • Consistently shipped new and refined features to improve user experiences for tutors, parents, and students, including scheduling and communications features ### Design Consultant and Freelancer @ Unknown Jan 2009 – Jan 2021 ### Product Designer @ Clever Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area I was fortunate enough to serve as the lead designer on a newly founded and talented Discovery team, who’s initiatives spanned three user types, found initial revenue, and soon became a top-level company priority. • Responsible for end-to-end design from inception to execution for products that shipped across multiple user types. • Overhauled our School Admin experience to double our feature offering and provide an optimized landing experience, leading to 60% increase in monthly active users (22K to 35K) • Designed the Clever Library from scratch, revolutionizing the way teachers to find and adopt edtech - now used by over 10% of US teachers and growing over 3.5x YOY • Drove growth of lead gen rate in our App Store through rapid cycles of experimentation and design (0.3% to 2.4%) • Matured the design org by crafting design principles, developing personas, and expanding our design system I proudly contributed to the vibrant and inclusive company culture by revamping the internal recognition program, planning team and org-wide offsite, and evolving to support a distributed team. ### Design Consultant @ Opionato Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Provided counsel and design direction for a new brand and service offering in the health and wellness space. Collaborating closely with the tenacious founder & CEO, I dove deep into understanding user needs, prioritized and organized content, built wireframes, defined interactions and user flows. ### Senior Interaction Designer (contract) @ Good&Co Labs Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Established processes and best practices to enable the growing design team to deliver efficiently and consistently. Created high level entry flows and designed responsive web screens for a volume recruitment tool beta. ### User Experience Designer @ Walmart eCommerce Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 Within the Customer Experience Organization I was proud to partner and learn from talented teammates, to deliver projects across many teams and platforms. • Led design for an optimized end-to-end native mobile in-store Pickup experience to leverage updated features and support various new store formats • Designed native iOS and Android visuals for Walmart Pay, driving acquisition of more than 1 million unique users and was awarded a design patent (us D820,850) for our payment drawer design solution • Explored and user tested several design iterations of a checkout/fulfillment experience combining grocery with general merchandise for the growing Walmart Grocery service In addition to project work, I grew from numerous internal training opportunities, and nurtured a cohesive and supportive team culture by reigniting our peer recognition program. ### Graphic & Web Designer @ James Free Jewelers Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Dayton, Ohio Area Designed and produced a variety of digital and printed marketing material to strategically elevate the brand. Launched a commerce enabled website redesign, delivered artwork for multi-channel marketing campaigns, and built a comprehensive brand style guide to ensure consistent communication and encourage customer loyalty. ### Graphic & Web Designer @ Zoo Games Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Cincinnati Area, KY Provided a variety of design collateral, imaginative marketing material, game packaging, and promotional websites for the core publishing business. Developed and maintained the indiePub brand, designed an alpha distribution platform across web and apps, and formed new business partnerships. ### Retail Associate @ LEGO Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 I maintain LEGO's bright and cheery store atmosphere by greeting guests and helping them shop for the perfect set of bricks. ### Lab Technician @ Miami University; School of Fine Arts Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 Assisted students and faculty by providing technical solutions in the computer lab while maintaining and improving the student workspace. ### Web Designer @ Miami University; IT Services Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Oxford, OH Designed and developed university websites with a small team. Projects ranged from content updates, to template manipulation, to entirely new site designs. ### Creative Intern @ Mcguffin Creative Group Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 Creative Internship involved in collaborative creation and production of print, web, and interactive products for a variety of clients. Worked on branded material, client projects, as well as internal initiatives in an effort to learn about the design industry. ## Education ### BFA in Graphic Design Miami University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neiltekamp - Portfolio: http://www.neiltekamp.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/neiltekamp JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/neiltekamp/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13