Grace Zec

Grace Zec has a diverse work experience in user research, project management, and consulting roles. Grace currently works at Code and Theory as the Associate Director of User Research. Prior to this, they worked as a User Researcher at the same company. Grace also served as the Lead User Researcher at Covid Act Now. As an independent consultant, they worked as an Independent Consultant contractor. Grace also has experience in special projects management at NationSwell, where they conducted stakeholder research, led new product development initiatives, and managed client relationships. Grace worked as a Senior Research Manager at Gerson Lehrman Group, specializing in business intelligence and strategy research. Grace has also held positions as a Research Consultant at System1Group, an Innovation Consultant at ABN AMRO Bank N.V., a Consumer Insights Specialist at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and a Senior Analyst at Prudential Financial.

Grace Zec completed their Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a focus on international politics, international relations, and development from McGill University, graduating in February 2006. Grace also obtained a Law certificate from Cornell University in 2006. In 2009 and 2010, Grace pursued a Master of Public Administration (MPA) at SDA Bocconi. Additionally, they attended NYU School of Professional Studies in 2016 and completed a course in Corporate Finance. Grace holds several certifications, including Designing, Analyzing, and Running Experiments, Design Principles, Social Computing, User Experience Prototyping, Human-Centered Design, and SQL for Data Science, obtained through Coursera. Grace also passed the CFA Level 1 exam in 2016 and completed the Corporate Finance I Professional Development Gold Standard Course at New York University. Grace's education history also includes some unspecified periods of study at McGill University and New York University, without specific degree or field of study information.