JÂ Metcalf
Staff UX Lead & Manager at Reddit, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorJ Metcalf is a Staff UX Lead and manager in Seattle with over two decades crafting frontier user experiences and 12 years in senior product design roles at companies like Reddit and Google. They blend hands-on engineering and design leadership—shipping 20+ cross-platform launches at Reddit, leading a merged design org, and driving high-impact features (like GIFs in Comments) that boosted engagement and earned press coverage. Comfortable translating data and research into product strategy, they routinely secure executive buy-in and partner with UXR and Data Science to close product gaps. A former founder and long-time developer (iOS, front-end, Flash), they bring both entrepreneurial curiosity and practical delivery chops to complex content ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, LatinGithub contributions (4)
jblairmetcalf/OnePageWebsite
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 3 days
jblairmetcalf/CountOnIt
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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