Transform Your Product with World-Class Design Leadership—On Your Terms
Elevate your product, captivate your users, and accelerate growth with exceptional design expertise—without the commitment of a full-time hire.
Drive Growth with Strategic Design Leadership
Exceptional design is more than just visual appeal—it's a strategic force that drives user engagement, fuels growth, and sets you apart in the marketplace. We specialize in turning complex challenges into intuitive, compelling user experiences that resonate deeply with your audience.
Our mission is simple: Empower ambitious companies with premium design leadership that's flexible and fits your budget.
Whether you're a startup laying your foundation or an established company ready to amplify your brand, we provide the expertise to make it happen.
Choose the Partnership That Fits You
1. Fractional Chief Design Officer (CDO): Gain a seasoned design executive to deliver high-impact strategy and execution—without the full-time overhead.
- Strategic Roadmapping: Align design initiatives seamlessly with your business objectives for maximum impact.
- User Experience Excellence: Boost user satisfaction and engagement through intentional, user-centric design.
- Scalable Design Systems: Ensure consistency and efficiency across all your products with robust systems.
- Brand Elevation: Craft a compelling visual identity that communicates your unique value proposition.
- Team Development: Inspire and mentor your design team to foster innovation and achieve excellence.
- Cross-Functional Synergy: Unite design, engineering, and product teams towards shared goals.
- Data-Driven Insights: Transform user research into actionable design strategies.
- Innovation Workshops: Ignite creativity and solve complex challenges with design thinking sessions.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamline processes to enhance productivity and accelerate delivery.
2. Strategic Design Advisor: Access expert guidance and actionable insights to elevate your design strategy when you need it.
- Expert Consultation: Receive strategic advice on UX optimization, branding, and key design decisions.
- Workflow Optimization: Refine your design processes for greater efficiency and impact.
- Comprehensive Audits: Identify opportunities to strengthen your design assets and user experience.
- Talent Development: Elevate your in-house team's skills through personalized mentorship.
- Effective User Testing: Implement usability testing programs that provide valuable insights.
- Process Improvement: Collaborate to enhance your existing design processes and workflows.
- Continuous Improvement: Benefit from ongoing feedback to refine and perfect your designs.
Meet Rachel:
Your Partner in Design Excellence
Your Partner in Design Excellence
An accomplished design leader who blends innovation, empathy, and curiosity to deliver meaningful results.
- Google Leadership: Led UX for Google Maps and Search, designing experiences impacting over 2.2 billion monthly users.
- AI Design Pioneer: Spearheaded product design for one of Salesforce's first AI products in 2016.
- Marketplace Startup Growth: Advanced from Founding Designer to Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at a marketplace startup.
- AI Startup Founder: Founded and served as CEO of an AI-driven communications and storytelling startup.
- Community Builder: Founded and grew a thriving global design community connecting and teaching designers to grow their emotional intelligence.
- AI Product Expertise: Holds certification in AI Product Management from Product Faculty
- Award-Winning Designer: MarCom Gold Award winner for "A Superior User Experience."
- Global Brand Experience: Led digital design for industry giants like Hyundai, KitchenAid, PlayStation, Deere, and MillerCoors.
- Business Development Strategist: Generated significant new business at Digitas through strategic design storytelling.
Is This You?
We collaborate with visionary organizations that recognize the transformative power of design. You're an ideal partner if:
- You're a growth-stage startup (Seed to Series B) building a robust design foundation.
- You need executive-level design expertise without the full-time commitment.
- You're ready to align design strategy with ambitious growth goals.
- You have complex products that need to become intuitive user experiences.
- You want to empower your team with top-tier design leadership.
- You view design as pivotal to achieving market success.
Let's take your business to the next level together.
Email r@racheldweissman.com to schedule your strategy call today.
What partners are saying
You'd be hard pressed to find a reason not to hire Rachel in as a member of your UX organization. She's smart, creative, curious, detail oriented, calm under fire, collaborative, and learning agile. So many of the intangibles are present in Rachel that she punches above her weight relative to her years as a working professional.
– Head of Design, Atlassian
Previous Chief Design Officer, Salesforce
Rachel led the global website redesign for our company, delivering a user-centric and visually compelling platform that exceeded all expectations. Her strategic vision and meticulous execution not only transformed our digital presence but also significantly enhanced user engagement and satisfaction. The end result was a resounding success—we were honored with the MarCom Gold Award for 'A Superior User Experience.' Rachel's exceptional design leadership was instrumental in achieving this milestone.
– Head of Marketing at Mid-Market Company
MarCom Gold Award Recipient
Rachel's the type of designer we're all better off for working with: fantastically talented, incredibly thoughtful, quietly confident. Her balanced approach and keen ability to deliver makes her extremely effective at bringing great experiences to life. She's ambitious and driven, but humble and cares deeply about the success of her teams. An independent, who quickly wins the admiration and trust of those she collaborates with. One of Rachel's greatest strengths is her understated leadership style. She brings a mindfulness to her team that invites everyone to approach their work with intention, compassion, and focus.
– Design Director, Facebook
Previous UX Manager, Microsoft
I had the privilege of working with Rachel directly while she was at Google. There were two things that stuck out to me:
1) She was so incredibly conscientious about our users. Designing product at Google is especially challenging and complex. You're always thinking about XM users and thinking about tens of other internal teams or stakeholders. Rachel had a strong ability think through the big issues keeping users in mind first while also juggling the many other complex factors (other teams design systems, technical limitations) in her head. Her work has only reinforced this as I've followed her career post-Google.
2) Rachel was an out oriented product partner. She never hesitated to go high level even as she worked on design while still driving to execution with our team. She collaborated deeply on the strategy thinking and early conversations with product and engineering and then followed up with strong design 'on the ground' when it came to development.
1) She was so incredibly conscientious about our users. Designing product at Google is especially challenging and complex. You're always thinking about XM users and thinking about tens of other internal teams or stakeholders. Rachel had a strong ability think through the big issues keeping users in mind first while also juggling the many other complex factors (other teams design systems, technical limitations) in her head. Her work has only reinforced this as I've followed her career post-Google.
2) Rachel was an out oriented product partner. She never hesitated to go high level even as she worked on design while still driving to execution with our team. She collaborated deeply on the strategy thinking and early conversations with product and engineering and then followed up with strong design 'on the ground' when it came to development.
– Product Lead, Series C Startup
Previous Product Manager, Google