Jeff Golenski
Principal Designer & Product Manager at Automattic
New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Golenski is a Senior Product Manager and Principal Designer with over a decade at Automattic, where he built and scaled Automattic for Agencies to nearly 10,000 partners and led cross-BU product and design alignment across WordPress.com, Jetpack, Woo, and Pressable. He combines hands-on front-end chops—contributing UI and responsive work to prominent open-source projects like Jetpack—with strategic product leadership, running advisory boards, joining support and sales calls, and synthesizing agency feedback into the roadmap. Jeff founded team operating practices (team P2, Linear workflows, structured dev cycles) and built an AI pipeline that turns 15,000+ support tickets and call transcripts into actionable product insights. His work blends outcomes-focused PM philosophy with pixel-level design craft, producing measurable impacts like a 23% lift in sign-up conversion and nearly $3M in agency project value from automated lead matching. Based in Massachusetts, he draws on a long history building hundreds of WordPress sites and running a decade-long design studio—an unusual mix that keeps his product decisions grounded in real agency workflows.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Graphics & New Media, BS Computer Graphics & New Media at Johnson & Wales University
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Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
wordpress9
php8
wordpress-plugin7
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Jan 2015 - Mar 2021
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 498 commits, 115 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeff's commits primarily focused on the styling and implementation of the Jetpack Protect configuration page within the automattic/jetpack repository. The commits included modifications to CSS and PHP files, involving the addition of new CSS rules, edits to HTML, and the integration of elements related to display within the admin dashboard. The changes appear to be geared towards creating a user-friendly interface and responsive styling for mobile devices.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
jeffgolenski/roadmap
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 comments, 37 issues in 17 days
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