# Jonas Goslow > Product Unicorn - UX Design and Engineering Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jonasgoslow I am a Sr. Web Developer turned UX Lead with over 15 years combined experience in design and development for the web. I like simple, beautiful and practical design, collaborative ideation, and a thoughtful and structured approach to product development. I’m unique in my ability to communicate easily with engineers and designers alike, my insatiable appetite for innovation and creativity, and my loyalty to the people I work with. I love coding great experiences using HTML/CSS/SASS, Javascript, Node, React, GraphQL/Apollo. I’m very curious. I love learning, art and creativity, and was a professional actor for 9 years. ## Work Experience ### Founder and CEO @ Lyra Designs Jan 2005 – Present | Concord, California, United States UX Design, Web Development, Product Strategy/Management. Design is a framework of thinking, not a visual medium. To architect; to code; to wireframe; to coordinate. These skills serve a process and all require thoughtful and intentional design of a path forward. ### Senior UX Designer @ Away Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area UX Design and development integrations support for the UX team at Away Travel. Specific projects have included PDP ideation and design iteration, Figma UX Library, and Webflow integrations support. ### Product Design and Development Lead @ Brave Venture Labs Jan 2017 – Present | Nairobi, Kenya I've worked part-time with Brave Venture Labs since July of 2017 to help them design and build their Talent Pipeline and Workforce Diagnostic experience. Brave uses a combination of Data Science and innovations in talent segmentation to create qualified talent pipelines for companies in the hiring process. I help Brave design and build their internal and external product experiences to develop new tools for talent comparison and analysis, support sales and talent acquisition, and augment data science teams in data processing. I have personally built codebases for front-end in React, as well as architected and coded their data-layer in GraphQL/Apollo, and supported their internal teams in improving process and tool-sets. ### Marketing UX/Dev Consultant @ Nextdoor Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area I have been supporting the Marketing and Communications teams with strategy and buildout of their web ecosystems, including UX Design and Front-end Development for Wordpress, instapage, Hubspot, Analytics and tracking. ### Senior UX Designer @ Awe Inspired Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area UX Discovery, Ideation and Design with Product team at Awe Inspired to improve the overall E-commerce UX. ### Strategic Advisor (Design and Development) @ Loxley Systems Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 Since 2016 I've worked with Loxley Systems as an advisor for development of branding, marketing and product design. ### Website UX and Development @ Merritt College Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Oakland, California, United States Supported UX Design and worked as the lead Developer for a rebuild of Merritt College's Wordpress multisite with over 200 separate department and school sites. ### Senior Web Developer @ True Botanicals Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area I worked with True Botanicals as the primary developer to build out a refresh of "The Ritual" blog in Wordpress. ### Design Leadership Forum Member @ InVision Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area The mission is to advance the practice of design leadership by fostering a community where the world’s best can learn from one another. We strive to make the Forum inclusive and relevant to those confronting the challenges of leading design teams. ### Senior Web Developer @ LOLA - mylola.com Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Supported LOLA as their primary developer for buildout of a blog refresh including custom Q&A functionality. ### Sr. Manager, Experience Design (UX) - Tech Product @ ModCloth Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area I have had the opportunity to build UX at ModCloth from the ground-up. Including creating new processes and UX workflows to re-integrate a design process back into product and technology. Whether in hiring, strategy, research, stakeholder ideations and interviews, roadmapping, information architecture, process mapping or in creative design, leading UX at ModCloth has been both challenging and fulfilling. ### Senior Software Engineer (Experience) @ ModCloth Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area I served as a hybrid Engineer and Product manager for front-end experience at ModCloth. Creating and implementing front-end solutions in Salesforce Commerce Cloud, custom Ruby apps, Wordpress and many other systems. I would often design my own solutions, and work closely with stakeholders and other departments to manage and execute on those products. Also managed SEO for 9 months and oversaw improvements in bottom-line organic traffic growth. ### Senior Front End Developer @ ModCloth Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Contracting with Modcloth as the lead marketing developer, helping with strategy, project management, coding landing pages and web experiences, as well as general consulting on a broad range of activities including departmental operations and process, analytics, targeting, U/X, messaging, and creative campaigns. Also managed marketing pixels & helped develop marketing acquisition strategies. ### Web Developer @ Creative Circle Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 Working as Development Lead, project manager, and many other capacities in top NY design agencies through Creative Circle in New York City. Agencies include DDB, Leibowitz, and Fullsix. Also worked in San Francisco for several agencies including WHM Creative. ### Actor @ Me.inc Jan 2005 – Jan 2014 Actor, Singer/Songwriter, Musical Director, Playwright, Director and Storyteller. ### Lead Web Developer @ Leibowitz Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | New York NY Jonas is lead developer at Leibowitz, programming for the front-end, as well as consulting with the interactive and account teams to create innovative new web-powered solutions. ### Web Developer @ DDB Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Madison Ave, NY I worked as a freelancer at DDB doing front-end development, graphic design, svn setup and management, wiki-editing, and a host of other tasks as required. ### Actor @ Guthrie Theater Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 I acted in over 13 plays from 2005 - 20011. With starring roles in "The Glass Menagerie," "Midsummer NIght's Dream," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," and "Arsenic and Old Lace" - as well as understudying and performing as the title role in "Hamlet" ## Education ### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Acting Guthrie/University of Minnesota ### BFA in Theater University of Minnesota ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jonasgoslow - Portfolio: http://lyra.myportfolio.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/jonasgoslow JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jonasgoslow/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31