Brad Gashler - UX Designer
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Brad Gashler

AI-native product designer

www.bradgashler.combgashler1@gmail.comBellevue, WA

Design leader driving AI and developer productivity at scale

Experience:

MetaStaff Product Designer Bellevue, WA

2019-Present

Previously Staff Product Design Manager, Sr. Product Designer

  • Led design and launch of AI-powered agentic coding platform, enabling engineers to delegate to parallel agents and 2 orgs to ship 30-80% faster.
  • Enabled privacy controls at project level, saving ~900 dev hrs/month
  • Drove rapid adoption of new IDE tool, migrating tens of thousands of engineers off legacy tooling with known security vulnerabilities.
  • Initiated partnerships in 3 orgs to integrate platform with core dev workflows.
  • Managed/mentored 5 designers and held #1 manager rating in my org of 130+
  • Organized quality push targeting dozens of UX issues; shipped systemic improvements
  • Conducted 100+ interviews; spoke at and co-organized 6 design events

AmazonSr. UX Designer Seattle, WA

2017-2019

Previously UX Designer II

  • Led design and launched 2 zero-to-one initiatives: online SNAP/EBT (food stamps) shopping and FSA/HSA health benefit shopping
  • Exceeded $100MM annual revenue rate shortly after launch, empowering low-income customers to shop with EBT online for first time in US history.
  • Prototyped, organized research studies and partnered with dozens of cross-functional stakeholders to meet strict regulatory and accessibility standards.

MicrosoftUX Designer Redmond, WA

2015-2017

  • Led early growth experiments for Visual Studio Code, helping it increase in MAU from thousands to 1M+
  • Increased download conversion rate by double digits by A/B testing new designs, equivalent to $1M+ saved annually in ad spend for the same results.
  • Designed and launched pivotal experiences driving growth: settings, theming/customization, doc site, and a brand new tab navigation UX.
  • Spearheaded accessibility, designed 4 high-traffic websites, spoke at TechReady, and mentored startups through Microsoft Accelerator

Hewlett-PackardDesign Engineer Atlanta, GA

2013-2014

  • Led design and helped implement a mobile data viz suite enabling users to deal with supply/demand anomalies for all of HP's consumer product lines.
  • Transformed HP's manufacturing floor software to run on tablets
  • Conducted research with XFNs and created complex video/animation demos.