# Rebecca Lasky > Senior Product + UX Designer | Specializing in EdTech & Learning Experiences | 15+ Years Transforming Education Through Design Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rebeccalasky Mission-Driven Product Designer | 10+ Years Transforming EdTech and Learning Experiences Through Strategic UX & Data-Driven Design I'm Becca, a Senior Product Designer with 10+ years combining strategic thinking, human-centered design, and data-driven approaches to create impactful educational solutions. I focus on breaking down complex challenges into clear problems and designing solutions that balance user needs with business objectives. My superpower is working at the intersection of UX and Learning Experience Design. My pre-tech career in education taught me how to craft experiences that enable people to acquire transformative knowledge and skills. Working in complex educational systems also showed me how to design with multiple stakeholders in mind, which sparked my passion for transforming broken systems through thoughtful product design. Outside of work, you can find me scaling climbing walls, throwing dinner parties, MacGyvering household projects, or appreciating the Bay Area's amazing flora and fauna. ## Work Experience ### Essentials Fellow @ 4.0 Jan 2025 – Present | Oakland, California, United States ### Cohort Fellow @ AICircles.org Jan 2025 – Present ### Product/UX Designer + LX Designer (Fractional & Consulting) @ Unknown Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Product Designer @ Springboard Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Key Achievements - Redesigned grading system achieving 50% efficiency gains while improving feedback quality to 100% - coverage with actionable guidance - Designed scalable flexible mentoring model that increased student agency and preserved learning mastery while reducing operational costs by 44% - Led development of new product features including tutorials, exemplars, and hireability assessments to enhance student learning experience - Played a pivotal role in founding and growing the product and learning experience design teams, shaping strategy and streamlining processes - Built research repository tool and tagging system that streamlined cross-team access to user insights, reducing time-to-insight from weeks to hours Core Responsibilities - Facilitated cross-functional design sprints and lean mixed-methods research - Collaborated with devs and PMs to deliver end-to-end solutions with highly constrained tech resources ### Product Designer @ Springboard Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Learning Experience and Instructional Designer @ Springboard Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Key Achievements - Improved satisfaction by 53% (NPS 62→95) through redesign of our Data-Driven Strategic Thinking course - Built UI/UX Design Career Track serving 4,600+ students with 79% job placement rate, becoming Springboard's fastest-growing course by ARR and enrollments - Designed a first-of-its-kind Industry Design Project, an experience connecting UX students with companies for 40-hour client projects across 4+ accelerators (AngelHack, Berkeley SkyDeck, Alchemist, M12) - Pioneered iterative, market-driven curriculum design process that improved alignment to career outcomes - Developed in-house Course Health metrics alongside NPS and CSAT to measure learning experience quality Core Responsibilities - Facilitated design sprints and coached associate-level designers - Project managed course design from research and scoping through prototyping and launch ### Instructional Reform Facilitator + Coach @ San Francisco Unified School District Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA - Supported and facilitated change management at a diverse portfolio of school sites - Collaborated with leadership at a variety of levels (district directors, school administrators, and teacher leadership teams) to identify and translate needs into professional development experiences and learning offerings for faculty and admin - Provided coaching and guidance to administrators (district and site level) in developing strategic plans ### Leadership Coach - Leadership, Equity, Achievement, & Design Team @ San Francisco Unified School District Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA TLDR: I helped leaders and teams work together to improve outcomes for students. - Designed and delivered 300+ hours of professional development experiences - Coached 15+ school leaders in establishing and strengthening Instructional Leadership Teams - Collaborated with Instructional Leadership Teams in strategic planning to address site-based challenges - Cultivated and supported teacher leadership ### LEAD Instructional Coach - Leadership, Equity, Achievement, & Design Team @ San Francisco Unified School District Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA Teacher Coaching - Directly coached teachers, provided onboarding, goal setting, cycles of observation and motivational feedback, reflection, and responsive, tailored supports Workshop Design & Facilitation - Designed and delivered professional development workshops for large, diverse audiences Collaboration & Partnership - Built and managed relationships with multiple sites implementing innovative instructional practices - Supported partnerships between teachers and schools through collaborative technologies - Collaborated with a variety of departments, teams, and instructional coaches to coordinate support Strategic Planning - Developed long-term strategy and vision with sites around core instructional practices ### UX Design Fellow @ Bloc Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA ### Teacher @ Aspire Public Schools Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Oakland, CA • Designed and taught standards-based, culturally relevant curriculum for a 60-student cohort ### Corps Member, Site Leadership, Teacher @ Teach For America Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | (Oakland Unified School District) Oakland, CA - Selected from 31,000+ applicants to join teacher corps committed to teaching in under-resourced schools - Motivated site’s teaching staff and developed capacity around issues of standards-based data-driven instruction, data analysis, progress monitoring, and mindset with regard to closing the achievement gap - Moved the greatest percentage of students at site on the CST from Far Below and Below Basic into Proficient and Advanced categories in 2011 ### School Quality Evaluator @ Oakland Unified School District Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Oakland, CA • Analyzed qualitative and quantitative data from site visits as well as other sources including CST and SARC data, School Improvement Plans, and student, family, faculty, and other stakeholder surveys • Assisted in developing the final findings report, communicating results and recommendations for school-wide reforms and assisting the school with the development of a three-year action plan ### Researcher (GS), School of Education, Specialized Programs in Education @ Loyola Marymount University Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Conducted research on the effectiveness of reform mathematics curricula in urban school districts, examining programs grounded in conceptual understanding of foundational mathematical reasoning and skills. Developed policy proposals and strategic plans for the implementation of conceptual math curricula in Oakland Unified School District. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Brown University ### Master of Arts (M.A.) in School of Education Loyola Marymount University ### Coursework in Design Methodology in Industrial and Product Design University of California, Berkeley ### Appenticeship in UX Design Bloc ### TCRWP Summer Institute Columbia University ### University of Oxford ### California Clear Multiple Subjects Credential Loyola Marymount University ### Year Long Instructional Coach Training NTC ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rebeccalasky - Website: https://rebeccalasky.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/rebeccalasky JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rebeccalasky/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05