Jake Janosik
Head of Product Design @Neo Financial
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Product Design @Neo Financial
Calgary, AB, CA
I work closely with Neo’s founders and executive team to define our product vision and business strategy, shaping where the company invests and how our products evolve year over year. My focus is on identifying the highest-impact opportunities across credit, banking, loyalty, and growth, connecting customer needs, market insight, and business outcomes into a clear, actionable roadmap.Alongside this, I lead and operate a design organization of 30+ product designers, content designers, researchers, and design leaders, responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable product experiences across the entire Neo ecosystem. I’m accountable for team structure, talent development, design quality, velocity, and operational effectiveness, ensuring we move fast without compromising craft.Impact & Highlights:• Contributed to Neo’s growth from a $400M to over $1B valuation, supporting $300M+ in total funding through strong product strategy, execution, and experience leadership.• Partnered with founders to define near- and mid-term product and business strategy, aligning vision, opportunity sizing, and delivery across the company.• Built and scaled a high-performing design organization (4 → 30+) spanning product design, research, content, and leadership roles.• Led the launch of 12+ financial products across credit, spend, banking, loyalty, insights, and investments.• Established a design strategy framework that connects customer insight to measurable business outcomes.• Elevated product and brand experience to support Neo’s rapid scale and category expansion.• Expanded design systems, operating models, and delivery processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and quality at scale.
EDUCATION
Durham College
Advanced Graphic Design Diploma
Akendi
User Experience Designer Certification - CXD
SKILLS
ABOUT JAKE JANOSIK
Jake Janosik is an executive product and design leader who builds and scales high-impact digital businesses by aligning product strategy, design, and execution around clear customer value. Across his career, he has helped organizations define product vision, launch and mature core platforms, and translate complex systems into intuitive, commercially effective experiences.Jake brings a rare combination of strategic clarity, customer empathy, and operational rigor, establishing product models, positioning frameworks, and team structures that enable speed without sacrificing quality. He is known for driving alignment across design, product, engineering, and leadership, turning ambiguity into decisive action and long-term growth. His work consistently focuses on creating durable advantage: products that customers trust, teams that scale, and systems that compound over time.
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