Summary
Erika Hauschild is a product designer with nine years of experience building user-centered experiences across fintech, insurance, education, and nonprofit sectors. She shipped high-impact features at Capital One—like a Zelle Split Payment used by millions and a patented virtual card provisioning flow that unlocked $140M in annualized spend—while also contributing to identity and fraud workflows and cross-platform design systems. As one of two founding designers at Beacons, she helped scale a startup from 16k to 3M+ users and shipped core website and commerce features. Erika pairs rigorous user research and service design (pro bono work with Better Housing Coalition and Higher Achievement) with hands-on prototyping and engineering fluency from early front-end roles, enabling smooth handoffs and measurable business outcomes. Based in New York and currently a Product Designer at American Express, she brings a rare mix of startup scrappiness and enterprise discipline, with a knack for simplifying complex multi-stakeholder processes.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science College of Engineering Computer and Information Sciences General, Bachelor of Science College of Engineering Computer and Information Sciences General at Cornell University