Jason S.

Product Manager

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States13 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led design for high-impact user experiences.
  • Mentored and built strong design teams.
  • Delivered data-informed product strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Design Leader in Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignDesign LeadershipUser Experience (ux)Design StrategyDesign Management

Other Skills

Team LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipUser ResearchPrototypingTeam BuildingStakeholder ManagementUser-centered DesignUsability TestingDesign SystemsWireframingGoal SettingRelationship BuildingCross-team CollaborationCustomer Journey MappingFigma (Software)

About

I am a design leader and thinker, collaborator-in-chief, UX practitioner, team champion and advocate. I’m passionate about building data-informed products that elevate customer experience to achieve business objectives. I am a design and technology enthusiast. I've contributed to organizations of all stages from a 40-person startup to an 180k-headcount international Fortune 500 corporation. I honed my skills early in my career on the Xfinity home internet product, conceptualizing, building, and launching the Xfinity xFi app; then contributing to its evolution into the Xfinity App. I raised the bar of experience for SoFi’s millions of members. And now I am at Super.com helping to keep more money in our customer’s pockets. Originally from New York, I currently live with my family in Philadelphia (can’t not say Go Birds!). We are avid explorers, finding our way out to the Poconos as often as we can. I mix and brew beverages both hot and iced. Message me to get my recipe for the perfect cup of French Pressed coffee! Then let's chat Product and UX design, organizations and stakeholder management, content design, design process, and mentorship. Specialties: - Building complex user experiences at scale - Collaboration both horizontally and vertically - Establishing and maintaining strong working relationships with cross-functional partners - Stakeholder management - Identifying team skills, leveraging strengths to accomplish excellence - Improving team processes - Mentorship and coaching - Independent initiative, identifying opportunities, going for it, getting it done - Convincing the unconvinced - Goal making and alignment - Flexibility, collaborating with people in the ways that work best for them - Performance management, growing skills and competency through work - Time, project, process management - Working cross-functionally in a pressurized, fast-paced environment, with tight deadlines - Developing deep subject matter expertise and understandings of technical background I love to chat. DM me for opportunities, virtual coffee, or just to say hi!

Experience

Super.com

Staff Product Designer

May 2023Feb 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

  • As a player/coach Staff Product Design Manager at Super.com, I am responsible for leading impactful, data-informed teams that elevate customer experience to drive retention and growth. I work closely with cross-functional partners to understand our users, identify and capitalize on business opportunities, unlock process efficiencies, and produce pixel perfect designs with robust documentation.
  • Lead design vision and execution of new LOB (0→1), scaling from $0 to $500K+ MRR through data-driven, user-centered design strategies
  • Lead design vision and execution of custom refer-for-cash experience, producing a unique 2-sided customer experience with a strong viral k-factor
  • Advocate for high quality user experiences by analyzing user behavior (Hotjar and Clarity), providing behavioral analyses for cross-functional partners, and digging deep into Amplitude user data
  • Run design workshops and strategy sessions, uncover hidden user pain points and identify high-impact areas for opportunity
  • Produce and share robust UX documentation: strategy docs, prototypes, user interface specs, flow diagrams, wireframes, customer journey maps, and high-fidelity visual comps
  • I am also responsible for directly managing IC designers, interns, and contractors.
  • Set performance expectations, evaluate performance in bi-annual performance reviews
  • Hire and retain top design talent
  • Provide mentorship and career guidance
  • Deliver regular feedback and coaching
  • Foster collaboration and maintain positive team dynamics with team crits, retros, socials, and open work sessions
  • Identify, design, implement, and socialize cross-functional process efficiencies and improvements
Product DesignDesign LeadershipTeam LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipDesign StrategyUser Research+4

Sofi

Staff Product Designer

Jan 2022Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Staff Product Designer, designing and working with cross-functional partners to deliver simple, delightful experiences that move customers from pre-membership to using the product.
  • Lead contributor to the Member Experience team for the SoFi mobile app and website, with a focus on first-run experience, onboarding, and pre-funnel member activations. I design data-driven features natively in Flutter and for mobile+desktop web using component design system and produce UX/UI/IA documentation for feature launches and iterative releases.
  • Medium to large size projects related to pre-activation, up-funnel experiences, and onboarding
  • Designed for (Q323) launch of SoFi Plus, SoFi's first premium membership experience: first time user experience, setting up/notifications experience and management page for the main MVP
  • Design-led initiatives including improved global First Run Experience focused on low-intent use cases
  • Component-based modular marketing page for high intent users coming in from Affiliate websites
  • Robust user experience documentation: strategy documents, prototypes, visual style guides, user interface specs, site maps, flow diagrams, wireframes, customer journey maps, and high-res visual comps
Usability TestingDesign SystemsDesign StrategyUser-centered DesignWireframingUser Experience (UX)+11

Comcast

2 roles

Design Manager

Nov 2019Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • I led a team of 2-3 UX/UI designers and directly contribute to product onboarding, first time user experience, front-of-app experiences including:
  • Directly manage junior designers, offer career guidance, performance evaluations, delegate tasks, provide critical feedback and review work for quality and consistency
  • Scope work tracks and efforts with decision-level partners in Product, Marketing, Research, and Engineering
  • Concept, strategize, design and deliver new and enhanced functionality to existing app experience, serving an estimated 7+ million new users in addition to 20+ million existing
  • Partner with research leadership and project-level staff on discovery and definition efforts
  • Concept, design, and own brand new app functionality to deploy and support brand new customer outreach channel for Marketing, Product, Ops
  • Identify and design for key guardrail around potential concerns, create cross-functional process for preserving exceptional user experience
  • Lead team process improvements, identify pain points, design and iterate on improvements
  • Present design solutions to senior leadership, executive leadership, external teams, internal teams
Usability TestingDesign SystemsDesign StrategyUser-centered DesignUser Experience (UX)Design Management+13

Lead Product Designer

Apr 2016Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Working within the Technology, Product, and Experience group at Comcast, in one year our team designed, built, and launched the xFi app: a consumer tool built to lead the next generation of digital products for the management of high speed data products.
  • I focus on the user experience of activating high speed data services and hardware, onboarding and troubleshooting issues post-activation. As part of this focus, our team is responsible for a number of tasks revolving around feature launch and iterative releases:
  • Construct user flows, user stories, journey maps to analyze potential product directions
  • Contribute and adhere to visual standards across our product and that of other Xfinity branded products
  • Create interactive prototypes in low- and high-fidelity to identify and iterate around possible solutions
  • Work with User Research to validate and explore concepts
  • Assess programmatic solutions to various design problems
  • Work with and support front and backend developers throughout the development cycle
  • Communicate clearly with multiple teams to resolve concerns quickly
Usability TestingDesign SystemsUser-centered DesignPrototypingGoal SettingRelationship Building+5

F#

2 roles

Senior Product Designer

Promoted

Jan 2015Apr 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • As Senior Product Designer, I was responsible for everything from high-level product thinking, research and analysis, user flows, mockups, prototyping, to final design and implementation. I worked daily with UX, Engineering/Development, Sales, and Marketing to ensure the simplest, most effective, and cohesive experiences for our users across our platform.
  • Leading the Design team, I also worked with all of our teams to elevate the quality of our work through considerate design thinking, critiquing and creating meaningful dialogue online, in-person, and in groups. I created, maintained, and, when necessary, rewrote the rules of our patterns and style guides, identifying and correcting inconsistencies and pain points.
  • I prototyped, sought feedback, iterated, redesigned, tested, and delivered under tight deadlines with an eye for detail and a passion for design as thought, discipline, and craft.
User-centered DesignRelationship Building

Graphic Designer

Jun 2013Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Front-end design of media rich advertising experiences across myriad platforms and devices. Platforms include Spotify and Facebook and are executed for mobile, tablet, and desktop environments. Conceptualize and execute end-user guides for products; assist in the development and execution of F# branding and marketing; ideate pitch concepts.
Relationship Building

Freelance

Graphic Designer

Aug 2011Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Web, Print, UX and UI. Focused on developing unique identity systems that are applied consistently across applicable media platforms. Strategic planning and execution.

Pingg.com

Freelance Graphic Designer

Aug 2011Feb 2012 · 6 mos

  • Extended existing brand to new user templates, web banners, other web collateral.

Education

Fashion Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) — Graphic Design

Jan 2009Jan 2012

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