Jeff White

Stepladder

Our work focuses on improving outcomes for medical technology companies and the patients and healthcare professionals they serve.

Healthcare brands we've worked with:

Baxter
Hillrom
McClurg Healthcare Advisors
Premier
Trially.ai


Before specializing in healthcare, Stepladder provided UX and visual design services to clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to seed stage startups in a variety of industries.

Clients included:

Amazon
Microsoft
Motorola
Citrix
Remitly
BabelBark
Cvent
Trupanion
Bamboo Learning
Code.org
Panopto
Woot!

Founder and Head of Design

Rebls

Design & Product Management Executive for seed stage startup.

•  Developed overall product vision, brand, visual language, and
product requirements for a v1 responsive web app
•  Designed all aspects of UX, directed visual designers through
development of visual language and brand
•  Translated market insights into product requirements
•  Managed engineering team including CTO
•  Involved in all aspects of business from recruiting to fundraising

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer

Creative Director

Designer

Amazon

Lead a team that designed & delivered 27 applications for
the Amazon Fire Phone.

•  Managed a team of 6 UX Designers
•  Established and communicated application design processes
vertically and horizontally across many Amazon teams
•  Created and evangelized OS and application-level patterns
•  Presented to executives including CEO

Interaction Design Manager, Fire Phone

Designed applications and OS experiences for the Amazon Fire
Phone.

•  Designed Phone, SMS, Email, Calendar, and Contacts
applications
•  Established process and documentation standards adopted by all
application teams
•  Created patent-pending application design frameworks

Sr. User Experience Design Lead, Fire Phone

Design Lead, Kindle for iPhone and iPad.

•  Collaborated with stakeholders to define requirements for
cross-platform experiences
•  Lead team of internal and external visual and UX designers to
deliver Kindle for iPad and several versions of Kindle for iPhone

Sr. User Experience Designer, Kindle for iOS

Designer of Kindle for iPhone v1.0 - 2.7 and Kindle for BlackBerry.

•  Designed the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flow of
applications and experiences
•  Developed conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups,
click-throughs, and prototypes
•  Designed and conducted usability tests
•  Contributed the first mobile design pattern to Amazon’s existing
pattern library
•  Presented design to the UX team, product team, and executives

User Experience Designer, Amazon Kindle

Jewelry TV

Design lead for multiple teams building enterprise web applications.

•  Guided overall product development for several internal web
applications
•  Responsible for interface and interaction design of rich internet
applications
•  Developed methodology for conducting agile user-centered
design
•  Conducted usability tests, interviews, and contextual inquiry

UI Engineer (Interaction Designer)

Premier, Inc

Business Analyst

Web Specialist

Web Content Consultant

Improving Medtech software ➤ Advancing UX careers with storytelling @ uxstorytelling.io/course ➤ UX Consultant ➤ UX Designer & Educator

In 20 years as a UX/UI designer I've shipped hundreds of apps, websites, and features for big tech companies like Amazon and Motorola all the way down to tiny startups being run from a garage. 

5 years into my career I co-published an article about Agile UX work a colleague and I were doing at a broadcast retail company.

That led to several speaking engagements, and 1.5 years later I was in Seattle presenting the design for Kindle for iPhone 1.0 to Jeff Bezos.

I worked at Amazon for 6 years where I:

→ Designed and shipped dozens of Kindle reading apps used by millions
→ Got promoted 3 times
→ Managed and lead teams
→ Worked on highly visible "special projects"
→ Presented to Jeff Bezos and other execs more times than I can remember
 
And then I got burned out. 

So to recover I co-founded a tech startup. This is not a joke. This is also probably not advice I would give to anyone. 

The startup fizzled out quickly but it was my first exposure to entrepreneurship and I was hooked.

I didn't know what to do, I just knew I wanted to continue being out on my own.

With the help of others I started contracting. Over time that grew into a 7 figure design firm called Stepladder. 

Things about Stepladder that I'm proud of:

→ Short but impressive list of long time clients. We form partnerships.
→ 100% referral based
→ 100% of clients are repeat clients
→ Experienced designers come here to have more freedom in their life
→ Younger designers come here to get started and learn

I never dreamed that I would speak at conferences, work at a big tech name, or start companies. Yet here I am 20 years later incredibly fortunate, full of gratitude, sometimes a bit tired, and having learned:

→ You can't do it alone
→ Helping people is the best part of this job

I share what I've learned over the years here on LinkedIn and work with clients at www.stepladderUX.com.

Thanks for reading.

Ankit Agarwal

topmate.io

Using topmate experts can let people connect with them for their knowledge and time through paid 1:1 video sessions.

We wish to empower experts to derive value out of their wisdom.

Co-Founder

Hito

First Human

BettyApp

Thoucentric

Leading Emerging Technologies Practice at Thoucentric

Head - Emerging Technologies Practice

PreGrab

PreGrab is a venture that wants to tap into the pre-owned products market. We have kicked off from being a market-place for dealers of pre-owned products and will be primarily focusing on the needs of the buyers of these products. Once having established ourselves in our core business competencies, we aim to expand into B2B and C2C avenues. The problem we aim to solve is of the lack of reliability and visibility of these products from a buyer’s viewpoint. All the present arrangements in the market (online and offline) fail to provide these deliverables leaving the market highly untapped and the core problem unsolved.

Co Founder

Schlumberger

 First engineer to implement Torque & Drag monitoring measurements at the wellsite and documented proper procedure for mentoring Junior and fellow engineers
 Analyzed all stuck incidents occurred in South Iraq oil fields to monitor lost money/time and proposed results in a way to improve the best practices/procedures
 Assisted Senior Well Engineer in preparation of Authority of Expenditure (AFE), follow up of contractual costs, out of scope costs for efficient project/design of Cost Tracking System
 Finished all three training schools & personal Technical Review with being among top 1% of employees of IPM
 AWSS – Responsible for financial planning, preparation of Daily reports; assisting office/WSS in the wellsite engineering calculations, preparing daily drilling instructions
 Only engineer from drilling team working on completions thereby understanding every drilling/well intervention operations

Well Engineer

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Responsible for providing academic guidance and support to all the students of the department with special emphasis on students with multiple course backlogs
The Only student nominated based on balanced extracurricular, academia and mentoring skills to guide students
•	Handpicked and Supervised a team of 10 mentors; prioritized 40 senior students with academic difficulties and pioneered an Assistance Program to monitor their progress on individual basis
•	Streamlined the counseling procedure by liaising between faculty and students; initiated Centralized Review System to assess and help underperforming students
•	Introduced academic reforms by reviewing course structure and content based on surveying faculty and students

Head, Department Mentorship Program

Responsible for establishing connections with the companies and universities for providing Internships to students of the Institute.
Worked in core team of 22 to streamline existing internship process, catering to the needs of more than 900 undergraduates
•	Calibrated Internship Policy based on student feedback to maximize benefits to all students and participating companies
•	Established association with 5 first time recruiters including Australian University UNSW, US Construction Firms; successfully contributed in achieving 50% y-o-y increase in the internship offers 
•	Introduced a centralized contacting scheme for International universities leading to an increase of 200% in foreign interns

Internship Coordinator

Try Topmate.io! Get featured on Times Square Billboard, #BeAvailable :)

- Building Topmate to offer seamless tools to help the creator economy thrive.  

- Consistently delivering exceptional results, thanks to my strong work ethic.

- Working at Schlumberger in Iraq has been my career highlight (a memory that will never fade).

About me personally? I can drive all day, with my favorite destinations being Europe and Switzerland.

The last three months have quietly been the most defining months for Topmate.

Not because of a big launch.
Not because of a viral moment.

But because something shifted in how we built, shipped, and listened.
We stopped chasing surface-level growth.
We doubled down on one thing - serving creators deeply.
And that decision changed everything.

For the past 3 months, we’ve hit our strongest performance ever across:
- GMV
- Net revenue
- Repeat bookings
- Creator earnings
- Activation & retention

And yes - this growth has now made Topmate profitable for three straight months.

A small line to write, but a massive milestone for us.
No shortcuts.
No burn-heavy tactics.

Just creators who believed in us and a team that never stopped shipping.
As a founder, this phase has been the most rewarding.

It tells me the product is working, the model is solid, and the value is real.
To every creator who trusted us with their knowledge - thank you.
To our team - you made the last 90 days special.

Profitability isn’t the finish line.
It’s the foundation.

The next chapter: more AI, better product, and even stronger growth for creators globally.
Onwards. 🚀

#profitability #creator #update

Ankit from Topmate

Try Topmate.io! 12 cupcakes on me if you don't like it 😊

🚀 𝗪𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 - 𝟭𝟱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝘀 (𝗠𝗧) | 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗿𝘂 | 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

topmate.io is expanding fast and we’re building the next layer of our growth team.

If you’re hungry to learn, love talking to people, and want to build a career in sales, business, and creator economy, this opportunity is for you 👇

📌 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲: 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲 (𝗠𝗧)
📍 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗛𝗦𝗥 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗼𝘂𝘁, 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗿𝘂 (𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲)
🗓 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 (𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝟳–𝟭𝟬 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀)
🛑 𝟲 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 - 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗢𝗳𝗳

You will work directly with the business & sales teams on high-ticket programs ranging from ₹40,000 – ₹60,000, interacting with creators, educators, and professionals across India and globally.

💼 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗼
• Client interactions via calls, meetings & demos
• Understand and pitch Topmate.io’s platform value
• Drive sales & growth targets
• Support onboarding and business development activities
• Represent the brand professionally

🎯 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆
• Excellent communication skills
• Confident, proactive & fast learner
• Enjoy talking to people and building relationships
• Thrive in a fast-moving startup environment

💰 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
• ₹30,000/month during trainee period (6 months) + incentives
• PPO at ₹5.5 LPA + uncapped incentives

👨‍💼𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀
topmate.io is founded by 𝗜𝗜𝗧 𝗕𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 and the selected candidates will interact directly with the hiring team:

🔹 Anuj Niranjan - VP, Creator Growth
🔹 Pratik Tawde - Growth & Operations

📌𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀
👉 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺: https://lnkd.in/gkyHQTjP

If you know someone who fits, tag them or share this post - great opportunities grow when great people share them 🤝

#hiring #managementtrainee #topmate #salesjobs #startupjobs #businessdevelopment #bangalorejobs #freshersjobs #careers #creatoreconomy

🚀  𝗪𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲

As we grow, we’re looking for a Social Media Creator who deeply understands our product, our brand value, and the culture we’ve built at Topmate.

Someone who can be the face of our content, shape how the world sees us, and tell stories that move the community.

If you can:
✨ Think in viral ideas
✨ Build campaigns rooted in product insight
✨ Create content that builds community and drives real growth

I'd love to meet you.

If this sounds like you,  𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄.
Let’s build something big together.

The quality creators are shipping on Topmate right now, and it feels unreal.

Gemini 3.0 Pro enables anyone to build polished, high-intent websites faster than ever.

Sharing six builds that made us rethink what fast creation can look like.

Six Creator Sites That Redefine “Built in Minutes”

Hiring a Performance Marketing Manager at Topmate.

We’re starting a new growth project from scratch - creator led funnel growth initiative focused on scaling paid webinar registrations.
Looking for someone hands-on with Meta ads who enjoys building things early and running real experiments.

Fixed pay + performance linked incentives.
Location: Bangalore / Remote. 
Immediate joining preferred.

Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gwHkXsWp

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Tag them, DM me, or share this post - sometimes one recommendation changes everything 🚀

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