Jason Putorti
UX Strategist at Embarc Collective
St Petersburg, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
Executive Director, Co-Founder
2018 - Current
- Founded a non-profit software service to help individual citizens lobby their government, vote, volunteer, and civically engage - Responsible for product vision, product design, product management, growth, marketing, customer service, and some software development - Grew Resistbot from zero to 9.7 million users, millions in contributions, 550 million texts exchanged, and over 33 million letters delivered to officials over 7 years of continuous operation - Outlasted startups in this space that raised millions in venture funding with grassroots donations, while delivering utility to millions of users - Managing two full-time engineers and a flow of volunteers
UX Strategist
2022
- Coach for early stage startups on product-market fit, customer journey, metrics funnels, user interface, and related aspects of launching and scaling a new product
Embarc Collective helps startup talent build bold, scalable, thriving companies.
Board Member
2019 - 2021
- One of four board members for a company that built an app for solopreneurs.
SoleVenture is an online marketplace platform for freelancers.
Raised $900,000.00 from Plug and Play.
User Experience Designer
2016 - 2018
- UX designer for Invest division - Created a brand new series of apps for individual investors and syndicate leads so they could better understand their investments on AngelList - Led the first redesign of AngelList UI since launch in 2010
AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.
Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.
Designer in Residence
2015 - 2016
- UX design consultant for Bessemer portfolio startups - Triaged mostly consumer Internet companies to solve their highest leveraged problems; from aligning leadership on messaging, ensuring customer needs were being met, to designing user flows and user interfaces - Companies included Zirx, Speakeasy, Simply Measured, Knowme, Pipedrive, Anaqua, Rabbit, Blue Apron, and Thinking Phones
BVP Forge operates as a private equity firm that focuses on software-enabled businesses.
Co-Founder
2014 - 2015
- Drove the product design and customer experience as an individual contributor and manager. - Recruited our first product designer in March 2014 and two more in January 2015 to help ship our first three products in June 2015: Brigade for iOS, Android, and Brigade.com.
Brigade wants to make civic engagement easy, effective, and enjoyable — and in so doing, restore political power back to the people.
Raised $9,000,000.00 from SV Angel and Marc Benioff.
Vice President of Design
2013 - 2014
- Causes acquired Votizen in January 2013. - Started as an individual contributor and creative director working on a new Causes.com product launched in September 2013. - Promoted to VP of Design, managing a team of seven across marketing, design, and user research.
Co-Founder
2010 - 2012
- Founding designer and the first hire at Votizen. - Sole designer for product and marketing. - Designed several iterations of Votizen products for consumers and campaigns, the Votizen brand, and drove marketing communications and PR.
Votizen is a consumer technology company that harnesses social networks to create a connected electorate of voters.
Raised $2,250,000.00 from Guy Oseary, AFSquare, Causes, A-Grade Investments, Atom Factory, Keith Rabois, Founder Collective, Founders Fund, Tom Shields and Shervin Pishevar.
Designer in Residence
2009 - 2010
- First Designer-in-Residence ever at a major firm. - Provided user experience, design, and marketing guidance to Bessemer portfolio companies, including Reputation Defender, Intacct, and LinkedIn.
BVP Forge operates as a private equity firm that focuses on software-enabled businesses.
Lead Creative Direction, Personal Finance
2009 - 2009
- Intuit acquired Mint.com on November 2, 2009.
Lead Designer
2007 - 2009
- Led product and visual design for Mint.com and, later, Mint for iOS. - Created user interfaces from idea to sketch to high-fidelity design to code deliverables. - Set the creative and brand direction for the company, including visuals, voice, and tone, and created many of the deliverables and brand components used in marketing communications.
Intuit Turbo is an app to get financial reports and financial advice.
Education
BS
2000 - 2002
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Candidate
2002 - 2002