About Me
✷ I'm a Senior Product Designer who sits at the intersection of user experience and business strategy.
With a Master’s in Marketing and a focus on the Fintech sector, I specialize in translating complex financial requirements into seamless, high-performing products.
My work is defined by precision in high-stakes environments. Currently at Thrivent, I focus on enterprise-level consistency, ensuring design integrity across a vast ecosystem of wealth management tools. By navigating rigorous compliance and technical constraints, I help maintain a unified and trustworthy experience for millions of users.
Previously at Mission Lane, I proved the impact of data-driven design by reducing delinquencies by 30% and doubling plan adoption for a 0-to-1 settlements platform. My background in marketing and project management allows me to speak the language of stakeholders and engineers alike, ensuring design is a driver for product velocity and business ROI.
Beyond the screen: When I’m not solving design puzzles, you’ll find me on a hiking trail, re-arranging my living room for the umpteenth time, or cooking something new. I am a proud citizen of the 🇺🇸 , 🇫🇷 and 🇪🇺, a French speaker at home, and a perpetual student of Italian and the perfect matcha.
Select Experience
Thrivent, Senior Product Designer
June '25—present
Enterprise Fintech & Wealth Management
Strategic Design Consulting, Senior Product Designer
Jan 2020—June 2025
Fintech & Growth Strategy (Addition Wealth, Silvur, Lightci, Action Design Network, The Carpentries)
Mission Lane, Senior Product Designer
April 2021—Sept 2023
High-Growth Credit & Risk Management
Early Career: Marketing & Client Strategy
2012—2019
Leadership roles in bilingual marketing, creative production, and project management.
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What my colleagues have to say about me.
Head of Customer Experience
"Emily is thoughtful, tasteful, curious, and dynamic, with talent in spades and the discipline to channel it toward what matters most. She strikes the perfect balance of confidence in her approach and openness to feedback, making her an exceptional design partner. If you have the chance to work with her, take it—I couldn’t recommend her more highly."
Product Manager
"Emily has been a delight to work with. Her strongest trait is her ability to communicate and articulate her ideas clearly and concisely – which has been a big help during cross-functional meetings and explaining why things were designed the way they were.
She also has a structured way of thinking – always having the goal or success metric in mind and tying her designs towards those goals. So much so, that if a goal or success metric isn’t clear from her perspective, she is not shy to challenge it or seek clarification – which as a PM is super helpful to know if the product strategy is sound.
She also has a naturally cheery demeanor, which brings a welcomed levity into meetings. Especially in the face of contentious meetings (as there were a handful as the HCR tech team all came onto the project at the same time, putting a lot of pressure on her to deliver designs), this demeanor helped dispel any fiction and promoted a more collaborative environment for her cross-functional partners."
Sr Design Manager
"I have worked with Emily on multiple projects for different clients and would jump at the chance to work with her again. Emily is the rare designer that uses design thinking throughout the product lifecycle, not just to produce high quality design and product outcomes, but also to improve internal structures that result in designers being able to do better work more efficiently."
Director of Design
"Emily has been contributing on both the CLIP and Collections and Recoveries as a real superstar for some time. She also has been a leader in setting the tone for the entire design team in organization and presentation of work, as well as in creating, documenting, and socializing a formalized Figma file structure to be universally utilized at Mission Lane. Emily is smart, honest, and fun. When I need something done flawlessly she is the one who I turn to first - she is truly a joy to work with!"
User Researcher
"Emily is an inspiration to work with because she's not afraid to put teams into shape when tackling projects. We've worked together on CLIP / HCR/ Acquisitions, all of which have their own strengths and areas of opportunities, but she always feels like the voice of reason, asking for data/ measure of success/ reasonable deadlines/ etc to make sure the experience we're being asked to build is the best it can be. She clearly always has the customer's best interest in mind, regardless of what the original request or ask is."
Designer
"There’s no one and no designer like Emily.
Emily is a thoughtful and analytical designer who possesses an outstanding attention to detail. With her deep understanding of human centered design and unmatched work ethic, Emily brought so much success to all of the projects she oversaw. Not to mention that she’s incredibly warm and collaborative- making her extremely popular and sought after by her stakeholders and partners.
It was such a joy to work with her- I’m so jealous of who gets to learn from her next!"