Hello, I'm Emre

I’m a Staff Product Designer and Design Engineer with 10+ years of experience. I combine product strategy and systems thinking with AI-native design and development. I shape product direction, build design systems, and craft how products look, feel, and function.

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Experience

Vivint

Staff Product Designer

2024 - Present

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Remote

Product leadership
Lead design across 5+ initiatives, aligning product direction with executives and engineering.
Design systems
Rebuilt the system in two months, introducing reusable foundations and semantic tokens.
Connected-home experiences
Led Energy Insights and redesigned device onboarding.
Mentorship
Support junior designers through weekly critiques and ongoing feedback.

Shopify

Senior Product Designer

2021 - 2023

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Remote

Internal tools
Designed a CMS supporting 150,000+ pages and $45M in annual cost savings.
Merchant growth
Shipped a referral program that improved payback efficiency by 63% and brought an estimated 200k new users.
Checkout conversion
Redesigned admin checkout, increasing lead-to-customer conversion by 24%.
Monetization
Led pricing and signup improvements, helping shape the Website 3.0 launch.

Mello Studio

Senior Product Designer

2016 - 2021

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Austin, TX

End-to-end design
Delivered product, web, and marketing experiences for startups and enterprise clients.
Research and strategy
Used research and usability testing to shape product roadmaps.
Design systems
Built reusable component libraries and prototypes to support consistent delivery.

Justuno

Product Designer

2018 - 2020

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Austin, TX

Product direction
Turned stakeholder and user insights into wireframes and interactive prototypes.
Usability
Facilitated workshops and testing to identify and improve usability issues.
Design systems
Created a system for rapid prototyping and clearer collaboration with engineering.
Brand and delivery
Designed the brand identity and coordinated implementation across customer-facing teams.

Community Operations

2015 - 2016

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Austin, TX

Community operations
Supported a beta group of users and handled support tickets within a large-scale platform operation.
Content review
Reviewed reported content against platform policies, identified user trends, and helped meet response targets and quality standards.

The University of Texas at Austin

BA in Philosophy

2007 - 2012

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Austin, TX

Featured work

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Home Energy Insights

I led the design for Energy Insights, a top-priority initiative transforming the Vivint experience by integrating comprehensive power management into the smart home. Evolving the product from an early MVP to mature version 1 and version 2 releases, I am now defining the version 3 vision to fully embed energy intelligence across the core application.

Summit Design System

I identified that the legacy design infrastructure was insufficient. I spearheaded the complete re-creation of Vivint's design system and color logic. This overhaul established a modern, token-based architecture that streamlined design-to-dev handoff and ensured visual consistency across the entire smart home ecosystem.

Merchant Referral Program

As the Lead Designer, I spearheaded the end-to-end execution of Shopify’s Merchant Referral Program. I drove the design lifecycle from the initial MVP launch in the US and UK through to the global full-feature release, simultaneously conceptualizing the north-star incentive strategy and delivering the final production-ready interface.

Admin Checkout Redesign

The checkout flow for choosing a plan in the Shopify admin required a redesign to accommodate changes in the product and the onboarding process for new users. Furthermore, several user experience enhancements were necessary to be implemented as fixes to further enhance the lead-to-customer acquisition ratio.

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