Erin Rademacher
About Erin Rademacher
Erin Rademacher is the Director of Design Systems at project44 in Chicago, Illinois, with a diverse background in UX engineering, design management, and software engineering.
Current Role at project44
Erin Rademacher is currently serving as the Director of Design Systems at project44 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In this role, Erin oversees design operations, focusing on meaningful tooling, onboarding, training, and evolving processes for designers. Erin successfully led the consolidation of two design systems into one and built a design systems team that spans both design and development within six months of joining the company. Additionally, Erin established the open-source design system called Manifest UI for product teams.
Previous Positions at Indeed.com
Before joining project44, Erin Rademacher worked at Indeed.com in various roles. Erin served as Senior UX Engineer in San Francisco, California, for nine months from 2019 to 2020. Following this, Erin transitioned to being a Design Engineering Manager from 2019 to 2021, based in Austin, Texas, for two years. Earlier in 2019, Erin also spent eight months working as a UX Engineer in San Francisco, California, United States.
Prior Experience in Software Engineering
Erin Rademacher has extensive experience in software engineering, having worked with multiple companies. Erin was a Software Engineer at Angaza from 2017 to 2019 in the San Francisco Bay Area and at ApplePie Capital for four months in 2017. Additionally, Erin worked as a Solutions Engineer at Heap Inc. for five months from 2016 to 2017 and as a Success Engineer at Fluid for one year from 2015 to 2016.
Educational Background
Erin Rademacher holds a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Photography from the Academy of Art University, obtained from 2011 to 2013. Erin earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Professional Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology, completed in three years from 2006 to 2009. In addition, Erin achieved a Web Development Immersive certification from General Assembly in 2015 after an 11-month program.