John Quaresma

About John Quaresma

Product design leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling design teams across consumer tech companies. Combines strategic leadership, executional discipline, and cross-functional collaboration to guide distributed designers as they solve user problems and deliver business impact. Known for developing exceptional design talent, implementing scalable design systems, and establishing ways of working that raise quality, consistency, and velocity across products.

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Product Design

   Oportun

   Aug 2023 — Present · San Carlos, CA, US

   Core Responsibilities* Manage a distributed team of 2 product designers (US/India) and 2 user researchers (Mexico) supporting multiple business initiatives across Personal loans and Savings digital products.* Partner with fellow cross-functional leaders to define product strategy, prioritize quarterly initiatives and assign resources to deliver business impact, helping users save an average of $1,800 a year.* Lead the design team’s refinement of Oportun’s Design System, collaborating closely with engineering to improve libraries, styles and components, helping increase creative productivity and scale design’s impact.* Provide ongoing coaching and mentorship through weekly staff meetings, design reviews, project syncs, and 1:1s.* Manage design and research tools, overseeing contracts, renewals, security approvals and member access while ensuring cost efficiency.Recent accomplishments* Built and scaled a high-performing Product Design team, delivering 29 design initiatives across Oportun’s mobile app while improving design operations and strengthening design systems to increase quality, consistency, and delivery at scale.* Built and scaled a high-performing Research team, delivering 33 user research studies across Lending and Savings products in 2025, informing product strategy and decision-making while leveraging AI-enabled tools to scale impact with lean resources.* Improved team effectiveness through skill development and operational rigor by defining career ladders with core competencies, providing ongoing coaching and mentorship, and leading cross-functional planning to ensure teams were aligned, resourced, and operating with strong culture and clarity.

Education

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

  Bachelor of Science, Graphic Communication

Skills

• Logo Design
• Advertising
• Jquery
• User Experience Design
• Art
• Html
• Proto.io
• Filemaker
• Usability
• Design
• Print Production
• Creative Direction
• Layout
• Mobile Design
• Creative Strategy
• Pre-Press
• Illustration
• Art Direction
• User Interface Design
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Web Design
• Posters
• Visual Design
• Mac
• Packaging
• User Experience
• Sketch App
• Invision App
• Photoshop
• Filemaker Pro
• Paper Prototyping
• Graphic Design
• Graphics
• Html + Css
• Interaction Design
• Product Design
• Invision
• Print
• Dreamweaver
• Illustrator