Stephanie Arnold

VP, User Experience Design, Sema4

Stephanie Arnold is currently the Vice President of User Experience Design at Sema4. Before Sema4, she was a User Experience Designer at Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest health plans that serves more than 10 million members. In 2012, she co-founded Little Bean Sprout and served as its CPO. She was the VP of Product at Tapatalk from 2013 to 2014, and has previously served at AT&T Interactive for five years, holding various roles such as Senior Usability Engineer, Human Factors Director, and Executive Director of User Experience Design. Stephanie graduated from UCLA with a BA in Psychology and later obtained her MA in Human Factors Psychology from California State University-Northridge.

Articles by Stephanie Arnold

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for Early Stage Companies

In our latest session from the Mucker Growth Series featuring Ethan Smith from Graphite, we explored AEO, a significant new approach for optimizing visibility in AI-driven search, particularly relevant as...

Startup Guide to AI Visibility: Be the Brand ChatGPT Recommends

Introduction Today, users aren’t just searching on Google. They’re asking ChatGPT, Claude, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI systems for advice. AI visibility is the new frontier of brand awareness....

Practical Uses of AI & Automation for Startup Operations

In a recent Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Rock Vitale, Founder & CEO of Easie, to share how he’s helped early-stage teams move from manual, fragmented workflows to streamlined,...

2025 New York Tech Week Recap Of Mucker Sessions

Last week during New York Tech Week 2025, we joined more than 1,000 events hosted by founders, investors, and VCs. This post is a full Mucker recap of the three...

How to Build a Customer Support Function for Startups Using AI Tools with Alex Velinov

Delivering high-quality customer support can be one of the most resource-draining parts of a startup. The good news: we’re at a turning point where founders can use AI tools to...

Zero → 100: The Exact Steps We Took to Close Our First 100 Paying Customers

Going from zero customers to 100 in just four months sounds impossible—unless you’re a founder willing to roll up your sleeves and hustle relentlessly. I’m Gaurav Bhattacharya, co-founder of Jeeva.ai,...