Sloane Hastings

Sloane is a Vice President of User Research & Design at Juxtapose, where she focuses on company-creation efforts from the early concept phase through the full venture lifecycle.
Sloane works closely with the concept development and talent teams, as well as with the firm's portfolio companies on their design and user research priorities.
Prior to Juxtapose, Sloane spent nearly a decade helping major consumer brands build relationships with consumers through human-centered products, services, and communications.
After beginning her career in brand strategy, she led multi-disciplinary design teams at IDEO, with an emphasis on service design.
She also led design strategy at Casper, where she worked across digital product and environments design teams.
She has a BA from the University of Virginia, where she graduated with Distinction, and an MS in Communications from the VCU Brandcenter, where she was the AICP Director’s Scholarship recipient.