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Erik Olesund

UX Research @ Anthropic | Adjunct Professor at Columbia | Previously: NYT, Instagram, Thumbtack, Stanford d.school

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Career path.

  1. Anthropic

    Member of Technical Staff

    May 2026 - Present
  2. Listen Labs

    Advisor

    Nov 2025 - Present
  3. Columbia Business School

    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Sep 2023 - Present
  4. The New York Times

    UX Research Director, News

    May 2022 - May 2026
  5. Instagram

    Lead User Experience Researcher

    Jan 2021 - May 2022
  6. Thumbtack

    Senior Manager, Head of User Experience Research

    Jul 2018 - Jan 2021
  7. Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school )

    Lecturer

    Aug 2014 - Jul 2018
  8. Collective Capital

    Co-Founder

    Jun 2014 - Jun 2021