Rebecca L Brand

What I’ve been up to

Experience

Waymark CareLead Product Designer

Remote2025 – Present

  • Supervise end-to-end design process across AI-augmented user interface and conversational healthcare products, aligning team resources and owning project priorities to achieve usability and business goals related to patient outcomes.
  • Govern and scale design system by owning component design and contribution model, defining usage best practices, and overseeing component implementation with front-end engineers in React and Storybook.
  • Liaise with technical and operations leaders to set strategic design vision across the organization, employing usage analytics and AI tooling to measure product impact and drive future roadmap prioritization.

Studio RodrigoSenior Product + Brand Designer

Brooklyn, NY2023 – 2025

  • Collaborated with fertility startup’s marketing team to drive membership growth and retention through website design, improved onboarding experience, and new user portal features concerning community engagement and async education.
  • Collaborated with enterprise client on DevOps platform for video operators to manage concurrent event live streams and investigate technical errors.

Data + Tech Services, City Transportation DepartmentUX/UI Designer + Product Manager

Austin, TXJun – Sep 2022

  • Guided the design of an interactive map viewer to visualize the status of infrastructure projects from disparate data streams for a multi-user audience.
  • Worked alongside PMs and engineers to define requirements, perform discovery, design, and user testing, and size features to align with quarterly roadmap.

Mayor’s Office of New Urban MechanicsService Designer + UX Researcher

Boston, MAJun – Sep 2021

  • Dissected existing construction permitting process, identify residents’ pain points, and test creative solutions that could reduce complexity, increase approvals, and promote climate-positive nudges.
  • Negotiated with stakeholders across departments (Environment, Inspectional Services, Mayor’s Office) to align design interventions with policy goals.

Center for Collective LearningUX/UI Designer + Content Designer

Cambridge, MAJan – Sep 2021

  • Contracted with the AI Institute at the University of Toulouse to design a civic engagement platform that gamified learning Chilean constitutional law.
  • Produced user flows, wireframes, high fidelity prototypes, and design tokens and components to unify the product’s visual identity and functionality.