Emma Demers
Design
Experience
- Led multiple redesigns, (Bloomberg News watchlist and data pages) that grew days active by 6%; covered PM duties for 1 year through team turnover.
- Shipped IPO tracking from idea to live in three weeks, designing event, timeline and prediction market modules that grew IPO + earnings page traffic significantly.
- Piloted an LLM chat flow for creating and exploring markets data and news; designed for both a ChatGPT SDK partnership and a News feature.
- Built the org’s first AI prototyping workflow that aligns product, newsroom and engineering with prototypes that can be launched without a design handoff.
- Conducted research studies that shape how the org converts new users into long-time users.
- Lead workshops for engineers on PRD writing, business drivers and design collaboration.
- Led E2E design/research for a data-heavy web app, optimizing 30-50% of clients’ total corporate spend.
- Shipped designs with sales and engineering that automated software implementation and cut its time 30% in one quarter.
- Supported an in-house AI tool that analyzes gaps in reported spend and a new end-to-end receipt OCR tool.
- Developed UX/UI solutions for products used by thousands of learners from hundreds of data points; presented findings to senior leadership and shaped future product roadmap.
- Built interactive prototypes and journey maps to align user needs and business goals; analyzed 300+ qualitative data pieces to shape new evaluation metrics.
- Designed and iterated on a life management platform, integrating feedback from user interviews and usability testing sessions.
- Spearheaded the company’s visual design system, UX guidelines and interaction models, improving cross-functional collaboration and mobile performance.
- Led design and development of four mobile apps, two life management platforms, a VR experience and a text-analysis web app for 12+ clients, scoping projects through user research and journey mapping.
- Redesigned the change management process for research and design teams.
Education + Community
- Dartmouth College
- Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Creative Writing
- Neukom Scholar
- Neukom Institute of Computational Science; Digital Arts Research Fellow, Computer Science
- AmeriCorps
- Elementary school teacher and aide
- Designlab
- UX/UI design mentor
Relevant Tools + Skills
- Figma
- Claude + Cursor
- Vercel
- HTML/CSS
- Prompt/Skill Engineering
- User Research
- A/B Testing
- Design Systems
- Data Visualization
- Prototyping
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Financial Systems