{
  "person": {
    "name": "Jason Schmidt",
    "site": "https://jsn.io",
    "email": "jsn@visualplant.net",
    "location": "SF Bay Area, California",
    "positioning": "UX Designer / User Experience Designer / Designer / Leader / Founder / Builder",
    "summary": "Jason Schmidt is a UX designer, user experience designer, leader, founder and builder who turns emerging technology into trusted products. He has founded and built a tech company, led design inside global and mid-sized technology organizations, and spent 15+ years in Silicon Valley shaping platforms across AI commerce, payments, crypto, video, and enterprise software.",
    "links": {
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/visualplant/",
      "github": "https://github.com/visualplant",
      "writing": "https://jsnio.substack.com"
    }
  },
  "bestFit": [
    "Senior UX design leadership",
    "User Experience Designer roles",
    "UX Designer roles",
    "Senior product design leadership",
    "Design leadership",
    "Agentic commerce and AI commerce",
    "Payments and fintech",
    "Crypto wallets and stablecoins",
    "Enterprise platforms",
    "Design systems and platform strategy"
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "slug": "designing-building",
      "title": "Designing-Building",
      "years": "Now",
      "summary": "A live look at the product, process, and operating model Jason is designing and building with Codex, Figma, Vercel, Supabase, and AI-native tools.",
      "role": "Designer, builder, founder",
      "tags": ["AI-native workflow", "product design", "prototyping", "founder", "systems"]
    },
    {
      "slug": "visa-intelligent-commerce",
      "title": "Visa Intelligent Commerce",
      "years": "2025-present",
      "summary": "Led design efforts for Visa's first agentic commerce initiative, defining how AI agents safely discover, decide, and transact on behalf of people across global payment networks.",
      "role": "Design lead, product strategy partner, builder",
      "tags": ["AI commerce", "payments", "trust UX", "enterprise", "strategy"]
    },
    {
      "slug": "visa-crypto",
      "title": "Visa Crypto",
      "years": "2021-2025",
      "summary": "Directed a four-person design team focused on crypto wallets, stablecoin experiences, and early platform formation inside one of the world's largest payment networks.",
      "role": "Design director, team mentor, platform strategy contributor",
      "tags": ["crypto", "wallets", "stablecoins", "fintech", "platforms"]
    },
    {
      "slug": "rambus-vaultify",
      "title": "Rambus Vaultify",
      "years": "2018",
      "summary": "Led product design for a secure digital wallet concept extending tokenization infrastructure into cryptocurrency and fintech experiences.",
      "role": "Product Design Director",
      "tags": ["fintech", "tokenization", "wallets", "crypto", "security"]
    },
    {
      "slug": "harmonic-vos",
      "title": "Harmonic VOS",
      "years": "2013-2017",
      "summary": "Founding designer for an award-winning cloud video platform serving major media companies and replacing a fragmented legacy UI ecosystem.",
      "role": "Founding product designer, design systems lead",
      "tags": ["enterprise", "SaaS", "video", "design systems", "platforms"]
    }
  ]
}