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Jason Poindexter
I design complex products and build the systems behind them. I spent fifteen years on consumer, enterprise, and developer tools at Apple, EA, Glassdoor, Equinix, and Google Cloud. Since 2024, I have taken AI products from the first brief through interface, code, and release.
Summary
My best work makes a dense system understandable without stripping out what makes it useful. I move between research, information architecture, interaction design, design systems, and production code. I can stay with the problem from the uncertain first brief through a working release.
Experience
- 2019 – present
THEFT Studio
Director of Product and Design
Lead product design and research for Google, YouTube, Waymo, FedEx, Booking.com, LSEG, and startups. Since 2024, I have also designed and built AI products from product direction through release.
- 2018 – 2019
Electronic Arts
UX Design Team Lead
Led the Pogo.com redesign from roadmap and MVP definition through launch for a product generating $30M+ annually. Introduced a design system shared across the product.
- 2018
Google Cloud
Product Design Consultant
Redesigned infrastructure workflows and developer tools across documentation, console, billing, and procurement for global technical audiences.
- 2016 – 2018
Equinix
Principal Product Designer
Set product and interaction direction for Search, Orders, User Management, and Administration. Launched SmartView and established shared patterns for enterprise workflows.
- 2015 – 2016
Apple
Lead Product Designer
Led requirements, information architecture, interaction design, and prototyping for Apple's internal A/B and multivariate testing platform through launch.
- 2013 – 2015
Glassdoor
Lead UX Designer
Owned research, information architecture, and usability for Employer Center. Helped govern the design system across web, mobile web, and iOS for a product serving 32M+ monthly users.
- 2011 – 2013
Vectorform
Senior Designer
Designed cross-platform applications for Raytheon, Volkswagen, Adidas, Chevrolet, Google, and Ford.
- 2009 – 2011
Doner
Frontend Developer and Art Director
Designed and built sites and campaigns for T-Mobile, Cox, The UPS Store, and the American Kennel Club using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and content management systems.
Recent systems
- 01
Vanta
Open-source local AI operator with a Rust safety kernel, TypeScript agent runtime, approval-gated actions, and visible run receipts.
- 02
FABRK
Framework for AI-assisted development with 109 components, 18 themes, 13 packages, and 3,221 tests.
- 03
Hashmark
Native macOS app for parallel Claude Code sessions with real-time tool-call streaming and inline approve/deny.
- 04
Monoth
Self-hosted financial dashboard with 60+ live panels and AI analysis constrained to the data visible on screen.
- 05
Design MD Extractor
Browser-based tool that captures a live site across breakpoints and turns its interface into design tokens and AI-ready build prompts.
Expertise
- Product
- Product direction, 0-to-1 systems, information architecture, complex workflows, high-fidelity interface design, and prototyping.
- Research
- Qualitative and quantitative research, depth interviews, usability studies, MaxDiff, and TURF analysis.
- AI systems
- Agent workflows, approval and recovery patterns, observability, MCP, evaluation design, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Code
- React, TypeScript, Next.js, Svelte, Tauri, Rust, and modern HTML and CSS.
Education
- 2018 – 2019
Boston University via edX
Digital Product Management coursework
- 2002 – 2006
College for Creative Studies
Bachelor's, Industrial Design and Graphic Design