Lea Sonnenschein is a product leader with 13 years of experience who currently serves as Director of Product Management at Brilliant.org, where she blends design-led thinking, analytics, and hands-on mobile expertise to build engaging STEM learning experiences. With an MS/MA in Innovation Design Engineering from Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art, she pairs technical depth with creative strategy, having led major launches like Brilliant’s mobile app, rebrand, subscription products, and an interactive reading experience. Lea’s background spans founding startups, shipping consumer mobile features at Rent the Runway, authoring widely used iOS courses, and consulting on product and UX for developer-focused sites, demonstrating a rare mix of teaching, product craft, and engineering. Known for empathy-driven research and rapid experimentation, she focuses on democratizing education while staying scrappy and execution-oriented.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Innovation Design Engineering, Master of Science - MS Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London
Master of Arts - MA Innovation Design Engineering, Master of Arts - MA Innovation Design Engineering at Royal College of Art
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science with Honors, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science with Honors at Grinnell College
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