# Jason Schmidt > Design Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jasonschmidt Specialties: User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Web Design, Entrepreneurship, Cryptocurrency ## Work Experience ### Designer @ Visa Jan 2019 – Present | United States Lead design for Visa Intelligent Commerce bringing 'agentic commerce' to help people buy safely and securely with the help of AI agents. Acquired by Visa ### Head of User Experience Design @ Rambus Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, CA Led UX Design for this semi-conductor company extending to software for enterprise and consumer markets, including digital wallets applied to retail and cryptocurrency. Procured and managed top-tier UX Design agency and guided our distributed team. Pitched products at industry events. Developed a leading UX/UI process and pitched our design strategy to suitors leading to a successful acquisition. ### Principal Product Designer @ Aktana Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area I led the design of a platform in the Life Sciences industry, applying sophisticated rules with AI/machine learning to help deliver medicine to doctors and patients. ### Director Of User Experience for Enterprise Solutions @ Harmonic Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | San Jose I designed this next generation platform for live and video on demand serving customers from NBC to DirecTV Now and their millions of consumers. ### Founder and Product Designer @ VISUALPLANT Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 I founded a video platform before it was trendy. I innovated the online video space, designed a better consumer player, a content management platform and transcoding engine for enterprise customers that served as a video hub to deliver content to top-tier CDNs. I built a company without external funding and made it profitable in year 1. ### Interaction Designer / Developer @ Sony Music Entertainment Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 I designed enterprise tools for transaction monitoring and data visualizations that helped Sony Music operations track the real-time pulse of digital distribution to their global partners. The applications were used by hundreds of labels to track over 100,000 transactions per hour. ### Venture Fellow and Design Lead @ Lightspeed Venture Partners Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | 2200 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 I worked closely with 2 co-founders to design and develop a Web 3.0 social networking and communications product. Launched it at Stanford University. ### Product Design Director @ Advertising Age Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 I designed and managed development of Internet products for "the bible of advertising" serving a global audience of marketing and media professionals. My department tripled revenue from when I came on board to when I departed. ### Product Design Consultant @ ObjectLab Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 I was a product design consultant for big and small companies in entertainment, publishing and finance, including BMG Entertainment and Napster. ### User Experience Director @ Universal / BMG / GetMusic Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 I redesigned the e-commerce hub for this consumer music entertainment site after which sales doubled. ### User Interface Lead @ BMG Music Service Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 I helped launch then evolve the content strategy and user interface for this major music e-commerce brand. The site rose from a handful of users to become a top-10 music entertainment Web site. ## Education ### BA English Lit in Music, Philosophy Connecticut College ### Graphic Design School of Visual Arts ### Computer Science New York University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/visualplant - Website: http://visualplant.net --- Source: https://flows.cv/jasonschmidt JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jasonschmidt/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07