Product
design
leadership.

Two decades of product design. Amazon, Meta, and high-growth startups. I create, lead teams, and build with AI.

Experience

Work

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2025–2026

Sr. Manager, Design Systems

Apollo.io

Led a team building Apollo's front end design system and content strategy

2023–2025

VP of Product + Design

Safety Design

Co-founded; led product and design for a B2B SaaS platform for mid-size construction companies

2021–2022

Head of Product + Design

Metaplex

Led Product & Design for the NFT standard for Solana; 15M NFTs minted, $3B in creator earnings

2020–2021

Design Manager

Meta Reality Labs

Led team inventing novel ways to interact in VR/AR/MR.

2017–2019

Design Lead & Manager

Meta · Profile & Identity

Led design team that shipped full profile redesign across 2B+ daily users, and added stories, safety, and memorialization.

2016–2017

Lead Designer

Meta · Camera Effects (AR)

Designed AR effects and platform for Nike, DC Comics, GIPHY; led the first FB AR Summit

2015–2016

Lead Designer

Meta · App Install Ads

Solo designer on the team driving $4B/yr (22% of FB revenue)

2014–2015

Head of Design

Scaled Inference

All branding, UX, and visual design for a machine learning startup.

2012–2014

Lead Senior UX Designer

Amazon

Led design for all amazon.com browse navigation globally, shipped nav redesign; Clothing/Shoes/Jewelry taxonomy redesign drove a 100% revenue lift.

2011–2012

Lead UX Designer & Researcher

Abercrombie & Fitch

Redesigned navigation, checkout, product pages, and launched the first A&F and Hollister mobile sites.

2007–2009

Information Architect & Designer

Resource Interactive

Global IA for Pantene, Herbal Essences, AutoZone, and more

2004–2011

Founder, Design & UX Consultant

Craft & Motive / Leimgruber Ltd.

Branding and UX consulting for Amazon, Honda, Home Depot, Bath & Body Works, Harley Davidson

About

Jason Leimgruber

Twenty years building at scale. $4B in revenue and 2B daily users at Meta, global navigation at Amazon, complex SaaS products, and early-stage startups. Experienced leading product design, managing teams, owning design systems, and driving cross-functional strategy. Operates across craft, product, and people. Designing natively with AI.

I excel at identifying and solving the most critical user experience problems, vision work grounded in reality, and building the kind of team culture where people do their best work.