John Merlino
Product Design, Lead - Search & Meta AI
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Merlino is a product design leader with 8+ years of experience shaping cross-platform consumer experiences at Meta, Meetup, and growth-stage startups. He specializes in marrying high-fidelity prototypes with principled experimentation to drive people-centered product decisions across search, AI, commerce, and sharing experiences. Known for building strong cross-functional partnerships, he has led design systems, federated processes, and teams that turned design strategy into multi-billion dollar commerce revenue streams. He brings a rare combination of hands-on prototyping, front-end implementation experience, and strategic product thinking honed from founding a studio and shipping internal SaaS efforts. Based in San Jose, he thrives on simplifying complex problems into actionable frameworks that align product, research, and engineering. Outside core design work, he often extends brand systems into illustration and iconography, demonstrating attention to craft beyond interaction design.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Communication & Graphic Design, Communication & Graphic Design at Pratt Institute
Github Skills (2)
swarm6
ui-components5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
johnmerlino/product-design-challenge
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
meetuparchive/swarm-ui
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
Swarm related packages and documentation
Contributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 6 months
ui-componentsswarmdesign-systemui
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