Emily Campbell is a design leader who builds empowered, high impact teams and exceptional product experiences.
Hi, there. This site is my playground where I share my experience navigating the changing shape of product design, from emerging ways design can improve customer experiences and generate business value, to exploring how systems and computation influence our world. In practice, I focus on servant leadership, scaling design impact, and user experience in a generative AI world.
But don't just take my word for it
I have had the fortune of working with incredible people in my career, at all levels. Many of them have kindly shared their perspective of my skills, leadership style, and distinct abilities over the years.
“Emily gave me the agency and trust to do my best work at Vendr. She went out of her way to teach the team how to think about incorporating AI technologies into design and research work, provided us with the resources to put that into practice, and helped us be more assertive across all our work. I recall, on multiple occasions, leaders from product and engineering being in awe of Emily’s decisiveness, velocity, and assertiveness to make better decisions. This helped design have a seat at the table.”
Karan Shastri
Staff UX Researcher (Vendr)
“We need to make “to Emily” a verb. How can we clone her?”
Chris McCarthy
COO (Degreed)
“Something that sets you apart from most leaders is your ability to not only create and articulate a vision for the future, grounded in insights, but to communicate a plan to operationalize your vision through the empowerment of others.”
Chris Avore
Principal, Design Transformation (InVision)
“Emily is an incredible product and design leader. She’s a self-motivated and outgoing designer, a master at stakeholder management, and makes sense of the noise. Additionally, Emily is an open-minded and servant leader with a reputation for being kind AND a badass. She’s the kind of person you want in your corner and brings out the best in people.”
Kevin Hawkins
Director of Design (BookClub)
“One of the biggest things we were missing before you joined Vendr was a healthy design culture and the design team having an environment that supported growth. It seems to me that you made that happen. It’s so much better today than it was before you joined and I attribute that to you directly.”
Matt Daubert
VP of Engineering (Vendr)
“Emily is able to move between teaching a C-level executive to mentoring a junior designer, and is able to create a deep and sincere impact on all of them.”
Brian Thome
VP of Customer Success (InVision)