# Emily Porat > Senior Product Designer @ Hightouch Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/emilyporat End-to-end Senior Product Designer with 6+ years of experience designing enterprise software for complex systems. Currently focused on marketing & data activation products at Hightouch. Previously designed internal tools for real estate teams at Orchard, improved digital experiences for gov clients at Deloitte Digital, and studied HCI at Carnegie Mellon. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Hightouch Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ Orchard Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States Owned product design from conception to implementation on 0-1 and redesign projects focused on driving internal efficiency by automating & simplifying complex real estate workflows. · Sped up the customer booking contract generation workflow 10x by simplifying data requirements, automating key steps, and removing dependencies from other teams. · Improved configuration tools that system admins use to create deal templates: automated template re-application and added new filters, saving users 5+ hours per week.— · Built a net-new home shopping dashboard that improves insight into customer behavior, increasing user satisfaction 26% and saving $1000s in Salesforce licensing costs— · Introduced a net-new financial summary dashboard that provides a reliable source of truth for multiple user groups to reference when deals are closed— · Initiated proactive, recurring user research to inform the platform's 2023/24 product & UX vision. ### Product Designer @ Orchard Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States ### Product Designer (Volunteer) @ Florida Community Innovation Foundation Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Led user research and co-led design for the Florida Community Resource Map (floridaresourcemap.org), a search tool that simplifies finding social services in Florida. Conducted interviews and usability testing, synthesized findings via affinity diagramming and product visioning workshops, and co-led design for our third release. Used Figma to create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and contribute to the design system. ### UX Designer @ Deloitte Digital Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Arlington, Virginia, United States Improved digital experiences across 20+ discovery and redesign projects for government and nonprofit clients. Tackled complicated and ambiguous design problems across food, housing, and health sectors for both internal and consumer-facing systems. Launched and led a 3-month mentorship program for junior designers. ### Jr. UX Designer @ Deloitte Digital Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ### UX Design Intern @ Deloitte Digital Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Arlington, Virginia Redesigned the Learning & Development portal, a site through which employees request continuing education programs. Conducted user interviews, synthesized findings via affinity diagramming, process flows, and personas, and ran a product visioning session with studio leadership. Designed wireframes and prototypes of the primary flows in Skech and created a style guide. ### UX Designer and Frontend Engineer @ Zensors Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Pittsburgh, PA Redesigned and developed the user interface for crowdworkers to answer questions about images captured from sensors. Wrote use cases and scenarios, drew wireframes, and developed frontend with React. Followed an iterative process informed by user testing and existing research. ### Full Stack Development Intern @ RX-M, LLC Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Developed a web application described under Projects. Created and improved technology training curriculum. Taught a virtual Intro to Git course. Wrote several Python/JavaScript scripts that automate file generation, screen scraping, and teardown of AWS clusters. ### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Pittsburgh, PA TA’d for an introductory CS course that covers programming fundamentals in Python, history of computing, and basic computer architecture. Instructed a weekly recitation, held office hours, and graded assignments. Collaborated with staff to improve current curriculum and teaching techniques. ### Instructor @ iD Tech Camps Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | De Anza College Taught children ages 10-12 programming basics in Python and JavaScript. I developed teaching tools and curriculum, such as online debugging exercises, enabled collaboration among students via small group work and friendly competition, prepared diplomas and transcripts listing student accomplishments, and led non-technical outdoor games and activities. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Information Systems (major), Human-Computer Interaction (minor) Carnegie Mellon University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emilyporat - Website: https://emilyporat.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/emilyporat JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/emilyporat/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23