Jason Culbertson

CEO

Oakland, California, United States18 yrs 11 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in leading innovative design teams.
  • Expert in creating personalized user experiences.
  • Strong relationship-building and communication skills.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a design leader in the SaaS and digital marketing industries.

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About

I am a strategic, innovative and experienced design leader with a strong record of success leading product vision for multiple companies in an array of industries. In our digitalized world, customers and companies are expecting a personalized and intuitive user experience. I help bring that to life. As a professional with great problem solving skills, I plan, design and executive every design phase, ensuring companies' and team's needs are met and their expectations are surpassed. Being an analytical and effective leader, with great relationship-building abilities, I have developed different projects that are industry leading. I am highly experienced in UX design, visual design, product and marketing, as well as mobile and desktop design, making me a key professional who is always ready to embrace new challenges. My strong communication skills along with my ability to build excellent relations with all stakeholders, make every project experience a positive constructive process, in which the team is always engaged and generates the highest quality output.

Experience

18 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
2 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Consensys

VP Design

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Linktree

VP Design

Feb 2024Apr 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Oakland, California, United States

Rapha

Investor

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Great question

Advisor

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Opensea

Advisor

Jun 2023Dec 2023 · 6 mos

Cameo

2 roles

VP Design

Promoted

Nov 2022Aug 2023 · 9 mos

Head of Design

Oct 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • I led the product design and marketing creative teams. I worked for the co-founder and was on the leadership team helping to make Cameo the most authentic way to connect with celebrities.

Swimply

Advisor

Jan 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

Coscreen (acq. by datadog)

Advisor

Jun 2020May 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Airbnb

Design Leader - Guest Team

Jul 2015Nov 2020 · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco, California

  • Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world. I lead the design of the core guest experience from search to checkout, inbox, trip planner, and maps.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Support products and services from the creative and design perspective.
  • Lead multiple teams and partner with senior leadership to create roadmaps.
  • Encourage and develop talent to ensure initiatives are being carried and products are being created.
  • Establish processes and drive quality across the entire guest experiences
  • Create world-class desktop and mobile design work

Hoteltonight

Design Director

Oct 2014Mar 2015 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • HotelTonight is a hotel-booking service focused on making last-minute trips easy and fun, offering travelers seamless, on-demand booking for boutique and independent hotels.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • In partnership with the VP Product, I led the design team in creating new initiatives for the company.
  • Led the redesign of the hotel admin platform ensuring room inventory and pricing could be managed through it.
  • Created and designed new features and local offers for desktop and mobile implementation.

Unity technologies

Design Director

Mar 2014Oct 2014 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Unity is the creator of the world’s most widely-used real-time 3D (RT3D) development platform, giving content creators around the world the tools to create rich, interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences.
  • Key responsibilities:
  • Led the team to design, from the group up, Unity's first-ever analytics product, Unity Analytics
  • Designed the first platform for tracking of game events now being used by thousands of developers around the world

Yammer, inc.

Creative Director

Sep 2011Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Yammer is a freemium enterprise social networking service used for private communication within organizations.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Built and led a creative team of 12 people including designers, video editors, developers, video producers and project managers.
  • Developed the design strategy and brand vision for the company.
  • Created collateral, websites, videos and user conference platform.
  • Established relationships internally and externally to ensure creative development met metrics and goals.
  • Worked with SharePoint and Skype product groups, sharing and educating in the value of creative leadership and cross-functionality design.
  • Main Achievements:
  • Designed the yammer.com site, mobile design, sales and service collateral, YamJam event signage and collateral, customer and sales videos and Yammer branding.

Mrm worldwide

Creative Director

Sep 2009Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • MRM is an agency that helps brands grow meaningful relationships with people through creativity, data, technology and brand experiences.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Managed the digital creative development for website, mobile and social strategies for the $60M U.S. Army account.
  • Oversaw the digital work of six partner-agencies to ensure uniformity in creative guidelines.
  • Presented all strategies to CMO and Undersecretary of U.S. Army.
  • Led all digital creative for Nokia cameras account
  • Achievements:
  • Led the pitch to win the US Army business that included 4yrs and $200M+ revenue
  • Omma and Effie awards

Dentsu advertising

Art Director

Apr 2006Oct 2006 · 6 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Dentsu is the largest agency brand and fifth largest agency group in the world, that provides a wide range of services in eight business domains: Marketing, Digital Marketing, Creative Sphere, Promotions, Media, Content, PR and Global Business
  • Key responsibilities:
  • Created the concept, design and execution plan for social and mobile applications, websites and banner advertising for multiple clients such as Toyota, Nikon, and Epson.

Atmosphere bbdo

Sr. Art Director

Jan 2006Aug 2009 · 3 yrs 7 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Atmosphere architects, designs and manages transformative digital initiatives that drive value.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Created the concept, design and execution plan for social and mobile applications, websites and banner advertising for multiple clients such as Bud Light, AT&T, Citibank, Target and Hertz.

Sony connect

Graphic Designer

Oct 2005Feb 2006 · 4 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  • Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate with business that includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, entertainment and financial services.
  • Key responsibilities:
  • Designer on the Sony Connect store including key art and user experience.

Education

Academy of Art University

Master of Fine Arts - MFA

Jan 2001Jan 2003

The University of Kansas

BA — Information Systems

Jan 1992Jan 1996

Jason Culbertson - CEO | Stackforce