Summary
Jessica Harllee is a Staff Product Designer with 12 years of experience shaping two-sided marketplaces, ecommerce experiences, and tools for small creative businesses, currently driving retail product design at Shopify in New York. She blends hands-on execution—research, workshop facilitation, design systems, and even deploying code—with strong cross-functional leadership and roadmap shaping. Her work spans high-impact projects from CRM and segmentation tooling at Faire to redesigning commerce platforms and internal tooling at Primary and Etsy, where she helped stand up early design systems and a high-experimentation culture. Comfortable across the product lifecycle, she’s known for translating complex data and compliance needs into usable interfaces and for improving merchant activation in POS contexts. An underrated strength is her ability to pair visual craft with technical pragmatism, making her equally effective building designer-developer bridges as she is defining strategy.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Design and Visual Communications, General, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Design and Visual Communications, General at Virginia Tech