# Shem Rajoon > Community Builder & Design Leader Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shem From building toys in the backyard as a kid, to building communities, products, and teams as a professional. For over a decade, I've dedicated my career to empowering teachers, students, families, and teams through education and technology. ## Work Experience ### Developing a New Product for SMBs @ Mozilla Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States Small-Medium business owners can do less business finances and more of what they love. ### 0DIN.ai @ Mozilla Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States We unite cybersecurity experts to identify and address GenAI and Agentic vulnerabilities. ### Sr. Staff Product Designer, New Products @ Mozilla Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States Mozilla is working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it. Together, we keep the internet easy, safe and free — for everyone. ### Design Leader @ Mozilla.ai Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States Mozilla AI’s mission is to make AI trustworthy, accessible, and open-source. Drawing on the legacy of advocating for a free and open web, Mozilla.ai builds tools for developers to integrate, innovate, and collaborate on responsible AI solutions. ### Head of Design (Sr. Director) @ Ethiqly Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States Ethiqly is on a mission to elevate written expression and empowerment. Ethiqly uses AI to support teachers in creating the next generation of great writers. ### Principal Product Designer (Director) @ Outschool Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States Outschool is on a mission to spread the love of learning. Outschool's educational platform offers a variety of engaging, small-group classes online to give kids the unique opportunity to explore their interests in-depth. Outschool makes learning fun, social, and self-directed, with the support of over 15K Educators. ### Sr. Product Design Manager @ 15Five Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States 15Five is on a mission to help HR leaders drive results through human-centered leadership and management. Built using the Positive Product Design™ method, 15Five is the only platform that offers software aligned to the latest positive psychology research that empowers managers to lead high performing, thriving teams. ### Sabbatical @ Design Leadership Advisor Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Utilizing my background in communication, product, design, social psychology, and community service; to strategically uncover opportunities around the social emotional impact arts programing have on the lives of young people throughout NYC. ### Lead Product Designer @ Teachers Pay Teachers Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) is on a mission To help teachers teach at their best. They are the go-to place for educators to find the resources, knowledge, and inspiration they need to teach at their best. TpT serves over 7 million educators worldwide and offers millions of teacher-created lessons that have been downloaded over a billion times. A little about my role: As the Product Design lead on our Resource Experience (Rx) product team, I'm involved in every aspect of the product development process. Deeply understanding our educators and their problems. Collaboratively generating solutions with them in mind, then emphasizing the value we’re creating for them. Furthermore, I also play a major role in communicating the business outcomes of our solutions, then collaboratively seek creative ways to measure the impact as we test, build, ship and iterate. I partner with product managers, engineers, our community team, our community, and others in setting and executing our product vision and direction. I take on a range of design challenges and advocate for the clearest, cleanest, and most cohesive design experiences for our educators. Some of my responsibilities: - Contribute to product team growth, vision, and strategy - Craft beautiful, engaging experiences with our community - Communicate effectively using user research, workshops, narratives, sketches, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes - Define interaction models, user flows, and UI specifications - Help develop and define TpT’s design sensibilities, methodologies, and culture ### Lead Product Designer @ littleBits Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area Tomorrow’s leaders are today’s kids, so we’re working to empower kids everywhere -- regardless of gender, race, nationality, and ability -- to solve the epic challenges ahead. We’re building a future where chief changemakers and problem-solvers are not limited to elite experts. ### MFA Design & Technology Program Director Kyle Li - Teaching Assistant @ The New School Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | New York City ### Co-Founder & Head of Design @ BKLYN BEAST INC. Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Brooklyn, New York New York City's first Parkour/Freerunning facility. ### Sr. UX/UI Designer - Urban Research Toolkit (urt) @ Parsons School of Design - The New School Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | New York City and Kathmandu, Nepal ### UX/UI Designer, Photographer & Journalist @ HarlemLIVE Jan 1997 – Jan 2008 | Greater New York City Area An internet new publication based in Harlem, NY. ### Community Development Ally @ Public Allies Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Greater New York City Area ### Program Assistant @ The Fund for the City of New York Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 ## Education ### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Art, Media & Technology Parsons School of Design - The New School Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 ### High School Diploma Central Park East High School (CPESS) Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rajoon - Portfolio: http://shem.chungrajoon.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/shem JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shem/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30