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Emily Withrow is SVP for Product at The New York Times. She is a ceative, dynamic, and empathetic leader guiding cross-functional teams to create sticky news products, with deep expertise in editorial, product, and management. Emily believes that smart products begin with happy teams, and loves building cultures and systems where seemingly strange ideas can grow into compelling, profitable products.

Emily was previously the director of Quartz R&D, where she led cross-functional efforts to ideate, shape, prototype, and build new features and products aimed at engagement and retention of Quartz members. She’s also faculty at Northwestern University, where she taught for six years prior to joining Quartz. Before that, she worked for The A.V. Club and McKinsey & Company. If you’re looking for a theme here, it’s a total passion for difficult problems worth solving, and bringing weird ideas to life. Emily spends much of her free time talking with robots, rock climbing, and researching recipes she will eventually abandon for nachos.