{
  "person": {
    "name": "Jason Schmidt",
    "site": "https://jsn.io",
    "email": "jsn@visualplant.net",
    "location": "SF Bay Area, California",
    "positioning": "Designer-Leader / Player-Coach",
    "summary": "Jason Schmidt helps teams turn 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 product design leadership",
    "Player-coach 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, player-coach",
      "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"]
    }
  ]
}