Jason Marder

Jason Marder

Digital Designer in Los Angeles, CA, He/him

About

I'm a multidisciplinary designer of products, brands, systems, and spaces with a deep love for craft, strong business acumen, and insatiable curiosity.

Work Experience

2022 — Now

We partner with "world-positive" companies working on complex problems in uncharted opportunity spaces. Those who also believe that exceptional design can materially impact their business and influence markets at large.

2020 — Now
Member at VectorDAO
Metaverse

A collective working to accelerate the mainstream adoption of crypto through elevated design.

2020 — 2022
Lead Designer at Stripe
San Francisco, CA

Led design for tools to empower the creative economy. Before that, led design for in–person payments hardware + software, including our first branded hardware products.

2019 — 2021
Design Advisor at Startups

Select companies: Medallion (medallion.co/), Wingspan (wingspan.app/), Dorsal Health (dorsalhealth.com/).

I help early-stage companies take the next meaningful step in their design journey. Depending on the company, this might mean building a brand, selecting and mentoring the first designer(s), constructing roadmaps from user needs, or establishing a design system.

2017 — 2020
Lead Designer at Gusto
San Francisco, CA

Led Gusto’s rebrand, redesign, and design systems efforts. I also designed Gusto’s new office and worked on our first consumer mobile app.

2014 — 2017
Freelance Designer at Startups

Web, mobile, and systems design for early-stage startups.

2012 — 2014
Design + Digital Strategist at PwC Digital Services
New York, NY

Enabled Fortune 500 companies to learn from their customers, build better products / services for them, and restructure their orgs around customer problems (vs. product solutions).