Jesse Bilsten
Principal Designer at GoDaddy
California, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Bilsten is a Principal Designer with 13+ years of focused product and UX leadership and over 20 years of cross-disciplinary experience blending design, engineering and business strategy. At GoDaddy he has led major product areas—from cart and checkout to billing, SSO and account settings—driving design system adoption, a Sketch-to-Figma migration, and measurable improvements in conversion and consistency. He combines hands-on prototyping and frontend chops with executive experience managing teams, multi-million-dollar budgets, and stakeholder alignment at Fortune 100 clients. A strategic, future-focused leader who values relationships, Jesse pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a customer-advocate approach honed across startups and large brands like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and Disney. Outside work he channels the same humility and persistence into family life and competitive golf—a recurring source of design metaphors and creative perspective.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Spanish
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Github Skills (48)
cocoascript10
sketch-app10
sketch-plugin9
vim-plugin9
sketch9
neovim-plugin9
spacevim8
vim8
neovim8
decks7
react7
titlecase7
graphql6
gatsbyjs6
eco6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JesseBilsten/refusal-dice
Jan 2016 - Jan 2026
Refusal dice is a betting game played with 5 dice and 2+ players.
Contributions:4 PRs, 19 pushes, 6 branches in 10 years 2 months
JesseBilsten/Sketch-TitleCase
Nov 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 2 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 6 months
sketch-plugintitlecasesketchchanges
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