Emily Esch

Emily brings two decades of product experience spanning ecommerce, mobile apps, consumer wellness, and edtech with a rare ability to move fluidly between strategic thinking and hands-on execution. She cut her teeth in product at Common Sense Media where she managed development of programs for educators before building out product and marketing functions at organizations like ModCloth and Google. As a UX writing contractor embedded at Google, she shaped content strategy for the company's youngest users and their families. Her consulting career has taken her from zero-to-one mobile app launches, including Groundswell's first React Native app and Clara for Daters' iOS launch to more complex engagements like Alo Moves, where she drove a comprehensive analytics overhaul, aligned stakeholders on a prioritized roadmap balancing features with tech debt, and led global integrations with Mastercard and Meta.

What sets Emily apart is her ability to walk into ambiguous, high-stakes situations and quickly bring clarity, whether that's navigating offshore engineering teams across multiple continents, mentoring product and design hires, or defining strategic pathways for a brand at an inflection point. She's equally comfortable as a collaborative thought partner to a founder building something new and as a senior consultant shaping the roadmap of a growing consumer platform. Clients appreciate her calm, structured approach and her instinct for identifying the work that will actually move the needle.