Katie Rieger

Founding Designer

AI-powered EdTech platform for creative learning.

• • Responsible for 0 to 1 product design, including a suite of creator tools for students and a suite of analytics tools for teachers and school administrators.
• • Defined Lumi's design principles for responsible AI in education, shaping strategy from AI that provides answers to students to AI that fosters critical thinking.
• • Facilitated design sprints to drive strategic and tactical alignment across product, engineering, and customer success.
• • Prototyped and tested a Socratic questioning AI approach with teachers, enabling product pivot validated by real classrooms.
• • Established educator-centered design practices, running bi-weekly feedback sessions to ensure accessibility and usability at scale.

Founding Designer

Business-in-a-box digital tool for insulation contractors. Acquired by GIC in Oct 2024.

• • Led UX design for a multi-platform MVP, creating contractor-friendly workflows that scaled into a full product within 12 months.
• • Facilitated design sprints to align roadmap and support successful acquisition.

Climate Tech Designer

Designed mobile experiences for climate tech and conservation nonprofits.

• • Large Pelagics Research Center: Designed iOS MVP for global fish population tracking, optimizing workflows for scientists in resource-limited conditions.
• • dashboard.earth: Collaborated with nonprofits on community-based climate solutions, designing native mobile experiences that promoted collective action.

Senior Product Designer

Biotech company specializing in diagnostics and immunizations.

• • Designed COVID-19 testing workflows used at >13,000 sites across the U.S., optimized for outdated smartphones, low literacy, and multilingual contexts.
• • Created a scalable, inclusive design system that reduced medical barriers across healthcare offerings.
• • Partnered with Genetic Counselors to redesign genetic testing result delivery, improving accessibility for transgender patients.
• • Mentored junior designers and help scale the design team from 2 to 40.
• • Founded the Medical Equity Working Group to advance inclusive design practices.

Lead Product Designer

Social app for queer women.

• • Led design and research during pivot from dating to social app, focusing on inclusive features (social feed, events, community tools) that boosted engagement.
• • Directed company-wide rebrand across product and marketing.

Product Designer

Webinar marketing tool.

• • Designed UX for webinar features including one-click instant meetings, used by enterprise and SMB customers.