Rachel Nigri - Senya

2025-09-11

In this episode, we sit down with Rachel Nigri, Chief Experience Officer at Senya, a fast-growing SaaS platform transforming how schools connect with substitute teachers. Rachel shares her journey of joining Senya in its early days and wearing multiple hats to help scale the company from filling just a handful of sub positions a week to hundreds per day. We dive into the challenges of building trust between schools and subs, the importance of creating great user experiences in edtech, and how...

In this episode, we sit down with Rachel Nigri, Chief Experience Officer at Senya, a fast-growing SaaS platform transforming how schools connect with substitute teachers. Rachel shares her journey of joining Senya in its early days and wearing multiple hats to help scale the company from filling just a handful of sub positions a week to hundreds per day.

We dive into the challenges of building trust between schools and subs, the importance of creating great user experiences in edtech, and how Rachel continues to grow as a leader while pursuing her MBA. Her story is one of adaptability, innovation, and a passion for making education systems run more smoothly.

Whether you’re interested in entrepreneurship, edtech innovation, or leadership development, Rachel’s insights will inspire you to rethink what it means to build solutions that truly make an impact.

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