I am a Senior Director of Product Design, User Research and Product Writing. I lead teams at Welltech that are focused on creating Wellness and Fitness products that drive engagement, retention and user value by deeply understanding the user needs. Before Welltech, I led both design and insights teams at Spotify delivering new product experiences such as HiFi Lossless, Spotify Wrapped and many other experimental efforts under the umbrella of the design innovation team.
Before joining Spotify I was one of the first members of the design and research team on Oculus that then shaped up to be the Facebook AR/VR team. Prior to Facebook, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech and at Rutgers University as well as a research fellow at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School. I hold a Ph.D. in STS and Human Computer Interaction and during my Ph.D., I was a visiting scholar at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
My work was published in various academic settings and was featured in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Rhizome, and The Atlantic.
Best way to reach out: raz@razschwartz.net