Markus Jaritz
User Experience Lead at my Family
Graz, Styria, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Jaritz is a User Experience Lead with over 15 years of experience building and scaling remote, cross-functional product design teams for consumer and enterprise brands like Firefox, Audi, BMW and Sennheiser. He blends experiment-driven product development with systems-level thinking to embed UX influence across complex organizations, fostering autonomy, clear decision-making, and continuous learning. At Mozilla he led Firefox Product UX and contributed hands-on front-end fixes to notable open-source projects like the addons-frontend repo, demonstrating both design leadership and practical engineering fluency. Markus has a strong track record of mentoring teams, organizing industry events, and teaching interaction design, which reflects his commitment to community and knowledge sharing. Based in Graz, Austria, he balances leadership with craft by staying close to prototyping and front-end details. Outside work he highlights family life as a central ongoing role, underscoring a people-first approach to leadership.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Information Design, BA, Information Design at FH JoanneumWirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen at HTL WeizCommunication Design, Communication Design at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
German, English
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
front-end-development10
mozilla10
redux10
addon10
react10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/addons-frontend
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
Front-end to complement mozilla/addons-server
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 34 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Markus's primary contribution involves modifying the `src/disco/constants.js` file within the repository. Their work focused on updating a list of system add-ons to be ignored, specifically within the Firefox add-ons frontend. They repeatedly added and removed entries, suggesting a process of identifying, testing, and refining the list. This indicates an effort to manage and maintain the correct behavior of the frontend with regard to system add-ons and themes.
reactaddonsreduxaddoncomplement
mozilla/addons.mozilla.org-mod
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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