Jason Leimgruber

Experiencematters

“Understands the complexities of not only designing but also developing products.”
Adam Jeffries, Amazon Eng Partner & Safety Design Co-Founder
Safety Design
Safety Design Form Builder
Safety Design task detail
Safety Design component library
Safety Design data visualization
Safety Design permissions & versioning
Safety Design form element types
Safety Design project data table
Safety Design schedule (Gantt)

Co-founded a B2B SaaS construction-management platform and owned the full product surface: Safety, Project Management, HR, Documents, and a Form Builder. I personally designed every screen and built a custom design system of 180 components and 1,000+ variations.

Amazon
Amazon homepage — global navigation & merchandising
Amazon mobile department menu
Amazon mobile product detail page

Shipped redesigned global navigation for Amazon, and unified the taxonomy across desktop, mobile and all apps.

amazon.com Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry page
Amazon Fashion editorial landing page
Amazon category navigation

Doubled revenue in Clothing Shoes & Jewelry with a browse taxonomy update to match how people think about shopping.

Meta
Facebook profile redesign — desktop
Facebook profile redesign — mobile

Led a team of 9 designers on a complete redesign of Profile, the oldest surface on Facebook, across 2B+ daily users. My team was one of the first adopters of the new company-wide design system. Earlier at Meta, I was the solo designer on App Install Ads, a surface driving $4B/yr, 22% of Facebook revenue.

Meta Quest Hands 24 — VR onboarding
VR scrolling interaction prototype
Meta Quest 3 headset

Managed team of eng and design specialists inventing new ways to interact with your hands in VR.

Abercrombie & Fitch
A&F user research
A&F product listing
A&F mobile product page

Overhauled navigation, checkout, and product pages. Designed and shipped A&F and Hollister’s first mobile sites, and established the user research team. A&F’s mobile site was the #1 most usable Fortune 500 ecommerce site.

Additional Expertise

Information Architecture

Checkout wireframes
User flow diagram
Site map

Wireframes, sitemaps, userflows, and logic flows for some of the largest brands globally. P&G, Pantene, Herbal Essences, Coke, HP. I merged 36 global websites into one template for the biggest haircare brand in the world.

People & Project Management

Program Gantt chart
Camera Effects platform OKRs
Fabric planning docs
Quarterly roadmap

I have managed teams remotely and in person, crafted AOPs and OKRs, and successfully shipped projects across multiple concurrent work streams.

DesigningSystems at Scale

For more than 20 years, across commerce, social platforms, and enterprise tools, I’ve owned the design surface from strategy to shipping, and brought teams along.

Strategy & Ownership

I define the problem, set the direction, and own the outcome. I bring the team and stakeholders with me. I've led teams of 9 designers, run the roadmap and OKRs, and made the calls that doubled Amazon's apparel revenue.

UX & Systems Thinking

I design dense, high-stakes workflows and the structures under them: taxonomies, IA, and form systems. At Safety Design I owned a B2B construction platform end-to-end and built a design system of 180 components and 1,000+ variations.

Interface & Visual Design

I ship the pixels. I led a team that was an early adopter of Facebook's redesigned visual system across 2B+ daily users, and designed Amazon's global navigation across desktop, mobile, and every app.

Testimonials

A design leader who can hold craft, people, and strategy at the same time.
Aidan LiHead of Engineering, Apollo
Engages at the point where respect for the user naturally overlaps with respect for product goals.
Josh LovejoyAmazon Design Peer
Approachable management style is balanced well with high expectations for craft delivery.
Rich BesselSVP Design & Direct Manager, Meta
Understands the complexities of not only designing but also developing products.
Adam JeffriesAmazon Eng Partner + Safety Design Co-Founder
Made me re-appreciate the joy of finding the right solution to the problem and doing genuinely good work.
Julia GronDirect Report, Apollo
Jason’s main quality as a manager is that he cares. I believe that’s the cornerstone behind his strong performance.
Paola MariselliDirect Report, Meta

About Me

Alpine lake in the Cascades
Breakfast bowl
Concert
Jason Leimgruber
Hiking in a golden field
Seattle Space Needle at sunset
Paintings in progress

I’m a principal product designer with 20 years of experience owning product surfaces end-to-end, from defining the problem space to shipping the pixels. I’ve designed at Facebook-scale (2B+ users), built a startup from scratch, and led teams through ambiguous problems. I’m looking for a role where I can own the UI and UX, work directly with users, and help drive strategy and team alignment.

I live in Seattle, love a great concert, good food, and the beautiful nature here in the pacific northwest. I’m currently learning how to sketch and paint.