United States

Lauren Reisfelt

Sr. Product Designer

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

End to end recruitment working on a team responsible for recruiting over 1,800 diverse teachers/year. Strategic development of recruitment marketing campaigns including email, social media, and job postings. Developed informational webinars including deck design. 

• Increased national email response rates by 486% in most successful campaign 

• Increased regionally specific application rates by 198%

• Increased overall hires by 71% in 2014

Selected to develop a team of 12 incoming Corps Members into highly effective teachers through intensive summer training. Training included development and execution of transformational lessons, positive classroom cultures, student data collection and analysis, and team collaboration.

• Planed and executed targeted observations, small group and individual coaching including individualized performance reviews.

• 97% Corps Member Satisfaction rate as compared to 82% institute average. 

• Rated Exceptional in demonstrating Core Values: Transformational Change, Leadership, Team, Diversity, Respect and Humility.

• Highest district comprehensive score on 2013 English 1 state standardized test achieved through lesson planning based on quantitative and qualitative data.

• Founding member of first comprehensive adult high school including development of district-wide English I-IV Alternative School Curriculum.

• District Trainer: Developed and provided professional education to 120 district staff members.

• Site-Based Decisions Making Committee Chair: Collaborated with central staff and campus administration to develop and implement administrative procedures and programs including review and revision of the Campus Improvement Plan and Campus Performance Objectives.

• Inside Track Representative: Facilitated communication between administration and employees. Responded to concerns, developed, and implemented solutions.

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