
RachelMcCarthy
human first product manager.
Brooklyn, NY | February 2026
About
I'm Rachel — a product manager living in Brooklyn. I build things people actually get to see, touch, and use every day, and I think that's one of the most human things you can do with a career.
I studied economics and spent years training in classical ballet and competitive dance — which sounds like a strange combination until you realize both are just different ways of understanding systems, people, and what makes something work. That's the lens I bring to product: analytically grounded, visually inclined, and genuinely interested in the human on the other end. I've shipped marketplaces, explored AI-powered tools, and spent more hours in Figma than I'd like to admit. The throughline is always the same — technology that actually serves people, not the other way around.
Outside of work: art history rabbit holes, and a corner of the internet that's mine (10k of you, apparently).
Work
02 — 06Projects, side experiments, and things I've shipped
A privacy-first personal diary app that runs entirely in the browser — no accounts, no backend, no data leaving your device. Built to explore what a genuinely private journaling experience looks like when you design around the constraint of zero infrastructure. Features mood tracking, rich markdown editing, Spotify embeds, image uploads with automatic compression, and tag-based filtering, all persisted locally.
The decision to go offline-first wasn't a technical shortcut — it was the product stance. Your most personal writing shouldn't require trusting a third party. Every feature was scoped through that lens: what does this need to be useful, and what does it need to leave out to stay honest about what it is.
Photos
03 — 06Shot on film
Books
04 — 06Things I've read and loved
Art
05 — 06Works that have stayed with me

Unknown
Bamiyan Buddhas
6th century

Rosso Fiorentino
Nude Study
c. 1520s

Caravaggio
The Calling of Saint Matthew
1599–1600

Luca Signorelli
Capella Nova Fresco Cycle, Orvieto
1499–1502

Jan van Eyck
Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
c. 1432

Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Slaying Holofernes
c. 1620

Jan van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait
1434
Music
06 — 06What I'm listening to
