About
Designer who codes. Director who ships.
Barcelona. EU citizen, no visa friction. Remote-first, available for quarterly travel. Started as a frontend developer in Detroit in 2009. Pretty much every job since has been some shape of designer who can build the thing.
01 / The combination
Two careers, same person.
Most candidates have one of these. I have both. Senior design leadership credentials across Apple, EA, Google, Glassdoor, Equinix, and LSEG. Directing systems used by tens of millions and saving hundreds of millions in process. Active production AI builder shipping Next.js + Claude Code daily across four production platforms (Monoth, FABRK, Gripe, Interrogation) with real users, real billing, and real model integrations.
I have been a design director for 15 years. For the last 18 months, I have shipped production AI with Claude Code as my daily build tool. I want to design the tools I use every day, from inside the company building them.
02 / How I work
Patterns, not pictures.
Autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, aphantasic, color blind. I cannot picture a thing in my head. The screen is the sketchbook. So I build instead of draw. I move from concrete example to concrete example, never from a mental rendering. That is why I learned to code, and why coding makes me a better designer, not a worse one.
The same wiring that closes off the visualizer route opens a different one. I see structure in interfaces other people see only as composition. I notice the inconsistencies a 4pt grid is supposed to prevent. I cannot guess at color choices, so I build the system that removes the guess. The work I am proudest of is usually the system underneath the surface, not the surface itself.
I do not work in metaphor or vibes. I work in patterns and examples. A spec that says "make it feel premium" is dead on arrival. A spec that says "match Linear's issue list density" is usable in the next ten minutes.
03 / Track record at scale
Numbers that exist on payroll, not slide decks.
- 01
Apple
Lead Product Designer
Internal A/B + multivariate testing platform. $5M+ annual savings, adopted across iTunes and Apple.com.
- 02
Electronic Arts
Lead Product Designer
pogo.com redesign for a $30M+ annual revenue product. Design system + agile delivery overhaul.
- 03
Google Cloud
Product Design Consultant
Customer experience redesign across complex global workflows.
- 04
Glassdoor
Lead Product Designer
Design system governance across a 32M+ MAU product. iOS features still in production.
- 05
Equinix
Principal Product Designer
B2B SaaS modernization across Search, Orders, User Management. Launched SmartView.
- 06
LSEG via Mobiquity
Product & Design Lead
Internal employee management redesign for 5,000+ employees across the full HR lifecycle.
- 07
Stealth FinTech
Head of Product
BNPL platform from concept to MVP. Hired and led the team. Compliance-as-architecture.
- 08
THEFT Studio
Director of Design
Research-led AI product studio. Google, Waymo, FedEx Digital, Booking.com, LSEG, Google Cloud, Google Health.
- 09
Vectorform
Senior Designer
iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Xbox Kinect, Surface apps for Raytheon, VW, Adidas, Chevy, Google, Ford.
- 10
Doner
Senior Designer / AD
T-Mobile, Cox, UPS Store (FWA 2009), American Kennel Club. Started here as a frontend developer.
04 / Currently
THEFT Studio + production AI builds.
Director of Design at theft.studio, a research-led AI product studio. Embedded with founders rather than transactional client work. Multi-year engagements, the same product, deepening over time. Recent work spans Google, YouTube, Waymo, FedEx Digital, Booking.com, LSEG, Google Cloud, and Google Health.
In parallel I ship Monoth (financial dashboard, Anthropic API), FABRK (UI kit and framework, 13 npm packages, 109+ components, 3221 tests), Gripe (market intelligence, Claude API structured extraction), and Interrogation (voice-driven AI detective game built for the Mistral hackathon).
Code lives at github.com/jpoindexter. Packages at npmjs.com/~jpoindexter. Studio at theft.studio.
05 / Looking for
Three shapes of role.
01 / Anthropic, Claude Code
Product Designer, Claude Code. Or director-level if posted.
The tool I use every day. Designing it from inside the company building it.
02 / Head of Design at AI-native
Cursor, Linear, Vercel, Figma, Replit, Notion.
Design leadership where the product is itself an AI surface.
03 / Founding Designer, Series A/B
AI startup with capital, taste, and a thesis.
0→1 design + production engineering, partnered directly with founders.
Open for select roles · 2026
Available now.
Direct email is fastest. Send a brief: company, role shape, timeline, what you read here that mattered. Reply inside 48h CET.
jason@theft.studio