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Scientist by training, content and product leader by practice. A decade of science education at Labster, now building with Claude every day.
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Who I am, what I've built, and why this role.
What you'll see
Why this role, and how I'd multiply great teaching with Claude.
Narrated by an AI voice and produced with Claude, disclosed by design: a small AI-assisted production workflow, the kind this role would build at scale. Captions included.
This is Sarah Stauffer. A one-minute introduction. She started as a scientist: a PhD in biochemistry at ETH Zurich, using cryo-electron tomography to see molecules almost nobody gets to see. Then she chose a harder problem: teaching. Ten years at Labster followed. 250 simulations. A team she grew from 25 to 70. Three million learners. And the question she never stops asking: does it actually teach? 89% of students showed real knowledge gains. Today she builds with Claude. Real products, shipped. dokita gives Swiss daycares their paperwork hours back, every week. And she teaches beginners, especially women, to use Claude with confidence. Great teaching, at scale, with Claude. That is the work she wants to do. Sarah Stauffer. She would love to build it with you.
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My thesis on learning, education & AI
How do people actually learn hard things? I've spent twenty years on both sides of that question: first as the learner, wrestling cryo-electron microscopy into a PhD, then as the teacher, turning hard science into virtual labs for millions. I'm a lifelong learner to the core, and it's why fast-changing environments feel like home.
Product work taught me more about teaching than any classroom did: the learner's profile is everything. What people care about, what they worry about, where they get stuck, how they learn. The richer that picture, the more effective the teaching. AI is the first technology that can build that picture for every single learner.
So I build learning that is hands-on from the first minute, treats productive failure as the fastest teacher, and uses AI as a thinking partner, never a substitute for thinking. The model brings the personalization; human empathy makes it stick. And it has to reach everyone: the confidence gap, especially among women, is real and it compounds.
Sarah Stauffer
A concept I'd love to build
Claude noticing what you're working on and coaching you as you go. This demo works: pick your level, take the 40-second lesson. It ends with a check, because teaching without measurement is just talking.
A decade running content at scale
~250 simulations across every STEM discipline, used by millions. I scaled the content team 25→70, led four disciplines with their leads reporting to me, then moved to product: the platform we built halved production time and lifted NPS 20→70+.
Measured in pre- and post-assessment after using Labster virtual labs. Proof the content actually teaches.
When virtual labs were assigned before in-person labs, plus 4× more likely to pursue a STEM career.
Pushing the medium forward
With ASU and Google: ~30 immersive simulations delivered in headsets and on the web. It became one of ASU's fastest-growing programs. Learning with a story and a visual identity of its own, nothing template-shaped about it.
A slice of the catalog. Each card opens the live simulation.
Used by 3,000+ institutions worldwide.
I also co-authored all four Labster Virtual Lab Experiments textbooks with Springer Nature.
References
From LinkedIn recommendations and written references. Every quote verifiable, most on my profile.
"Sarah played a decisive role in Labster's growth, driving budget planning, shaping recruitment strategy, and scaling the team towards 100 members. She bridges technical, educational, and business perspectives seamlessly. A rare combination of leadership, vision, and execution."
"It was so refreshing to work with a team lead who really wants to lead people and teams as much as Sarah. Her successes in change management included rapid expansion of her department, adopting and expanding remote models and leading the team through multiple transitions."
"Leading the discovery of the learner experience in our simulations, Sarah defined a new user experience that significantly improved both usability and satisfaction. Her empathy and active listening enable her to build trust and unite diverse teams around shared goals."
Building with Claude, hands-on
A child-development documentation app for daycares.
Swiss daycares lose hours each week to handwritten child-development notes. I designed and built dokita with Claude: market analysis, product design, and the build. Now in pilot with its first daycare.
Hallo SarahCraft, backed by learning science
Learning science I picked up on the job at Labster, and around the dinner table: my husband has a PhD in it.
Moderated and unmoderated research with students and educators, instrumented for outcomes. That's how NPS moved 20→70+.
Narrative-driven science: solve a mystery, learn the concept because the story needs it. I helped shape that pedagogy.
Led a WCAG 2.2 accessibility initiative that widened reach. Localization and new audiences are part of the craft.
PhD scientist. Six peer-reviewed papers, four textbooks. I make technical ideas accessible with the rigor intact, EN & DE.
One throughline
PhD at ETH Zurich, using cryo-electron tomography to see molecules in their native environment. Six peer-reviewed papers, four co-authored Springer textbooks.
A decade turning hard science into gamified simulations, and leading the people who produced them.
Advising on GenAI, shipping with Claude, teaching beginner Claude classes in Switzerland. At home, building a learning app with my 7-year-old.
The location question
One week per quarter in SF or NYC, Anthropic's Zurich office in between, calendar built around US-East mornings.
I led a 70-person content org through hypergrowth, "adopting and expanding remote models" in my manager's words. A decade shipping for US learners from Europe.
The next frontier is global reach. Native German speaker, a career building for international audiences: the expansion you're planning is the market I live in.
If this role truly needs someone in San Francisco every week, better we both know now. But if the question is whether this work can be led excellently from here, the last decade is my answer.
Why Anthropic
I already teach people, especially women, to use Claude confidently. I've started with my own daughter. Anthropic is that mission at a scale I can't reach alone.
Honesty and genuine helpfulness are the standard I hold my content to. This whole page was built with Claude, transparently, in the spirit of your candidate guidance.