John Balboa

Design Manager

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States7 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 40% profit increase for financial services client
  • Shipped apps managing $120M+ AUM
  • 30%+ conversion rate improvements across enterprise products
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and EdTech design expert with strong front-end development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience (ux)Product DesignDesign Systems

Other Skills

Design ThinkingDesign PrinciplesEnterprise ArchitectureFacilitationHeuristic EvaluationInformation ArchitectureInteraction DesignProduct PlanningProduct StrategyStrategic RoadmapsSystems ThinkingUsability TestingUX ResearchUser ResearchUser Stories

About

Most designers talk about users. I talk about revenue, and the systems that move it โ†“ ๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ'๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฒ+ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ธ๐—ฒ: โ†ณ 40% profit increase in 6 weeks for a financial services client โ†ณ Shipped apps managing $120M+ AUMโ†ณ 30%+ conversion rate improvements across 3 enterprise products โ†ณ Scalable front-end architectures serving thousands of users daily โ†ณ Design systems that cut dev cycles in half while improving consistency ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ? I don't design interfaces. I build revenue infrastructure that bridges three worlds most companies still treat as separate departments: โ†’ ๐—จ๐—ซ ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป: Decision architecture that drives measurable business outcomes โ†’ ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜-๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS. I ship production code, not slide decks โ†’ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—œ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: Agentic workflows, prompt engineering, and AI-native design patterns that multiply output 3-5x without sacrificing craft 2026 changed the job description for designers. They learned to operate at the intersection of design thinking, working code, and AI fluency. I've been operating there for years. ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜€: โ˜‘ Someone your engineers respect because he reads their PRs โ˜‘ Someone your CFO trusts because he speaks in ROI, not moodboards โ˜‘ Someone who asks "what metric does this move?" before opening Figma โ˜‘ Someone who builds AI into the workflow, not bolts it on as a talking point 16 years across Fortune 500 enterprises and early-stage startups taught me one thing: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ผ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป'๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐˜€. They're the ones who understand that design is a business function. Most designers pick a lane. I refused to choose. That refusal became my edge.

Experience

7 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Edward jones

3 roles

Design Lead

Promoted

Jun 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 11 mos ยท United States ยท Remote

Design ThinkingDesign PrinciplesEnterprise ArchitectureFacilitationHeuristic EvaluationInformation Architecture+13

Product Designer

Promoted

Jun 2022 โ€“ May 2025 ยท 2 yrs 11 mos ยท United States ยท Remote

  • Successfully designed and released a firm-wide OCR application upgrade to 15,000 branches across the US and Canada.
  • Deployed an app that creates thousands reference portfolios in one-click for our branches.
  • What I do day to day:
  • Design custom component libraries to scale our investment software suite
  • Create UX design deliverables based on research, qualitative feedback, and quantitative feedback from our Financial Advisors and Branch Office Administrators.
  • Design incremental improvements to our systems across 3-6 product teams using Agile methodologies.
  • Collaborate with researchers, product managers, business analysts, and developers to deliver high value to our financial advisors.
Agile MethodologiesMobile DesignDaVinci ResolveUser Experience (UX)UEFront-end Coding+39

Contract Designer

Aug 2021 โ€“ Jun 2022 ยท 10 mos ยท United States ยท Remote

Design SystemsDesign ThinkingEnterprise ArchitectureFigma (Software)Graphic DesignInVision+21

Dance vision

Design Systems Lead

Oct 2021 โ€“ Aug 2022 ยท 10 mos ยท United States ยท Hybrid

  • Think of me as the design architect for their entire app.
  • Created and scaled their design system from the ground up for their new e-learning platform.
User Experience (UX)User Experience Design (UED)Branding & IdentityResponsive Web DesignDesign ThinkingInteraction Design+20

National park express

Senior Product Designer & Front-end Developer

Jun 2020 โ€“ May 2021 ยท 11 mos ยท Las Vegas, Nevada, United States ยท Hybrid

  • Collaborating in meetings with stakeholders to prioritize which problems to solve and deliver the most value
  • Facilitating design workshops with key team members
  • Conducting user research and competitive analysis
  • Developing design systems, brand identity systems, pattern libraries, and style guides for our travel partner's distribution channels
  • Structuring information architecture through user flows, sitemaps, user stories, and content strategy.
  • UX/UI Design in collaboration with the development team remotely through Figma and our development environments
  • Designing web/mobile prototypes for stakeholders, users & customers for product testing
  • Building and launching white-labeled, custom web apps and websites for our partners
  • Measuring the user's overall happiness, adoption, and retention rate in relation to a digital product
  • Applying innovative and iterative design principles for our various travel e-commerce sites and apps
  • Implementing validated design solutions via front-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP to interact with our back-end database using Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Work through Kanban and Agile sprint cadences in one-week increments
Agile MethodologiesMobile DesignDaVinci ResolveUser Experience (UX)Front-end CodingHTML5+38

Bloc

UX/UI Design Intern

Sep 2018 โ€“ Sep 2019 ยท 1 yr ยท Remote ยท Remote

  • Creating User Experiences and User Interfaces for digital applications for desktop and mobile devices.
  • Utilizing Front-end development web technologies HTML, CSS, Javascript & JQuery for web and mobile applications.
Mobile DesignUser Experience (UX)Front-end CodingHTML5User Experience Design (UED)Branding & Identity+29

Yowza shop llc

UX Designer

Jul 2017 โ€“ Jan 2021 ยท 3 yrs 6 mos ยท Las Vegas, Nevada, United States ยท Hybrid

  • Built and designed their fully responsive e-commerce website, continuously maintained all technical aspects of the site, along with its security and SEO.
  • Facilitated marketing, design, and business strategy workshops bi-weekly.
  • Designed all graphics for the e-commerce site on a weekly basis.
  • Created illustrations for shirts, hats, and accessories.
Mobile DesignUser Experience (UX)Front-end CodingHTML5User Experience Design (UED)Branding & Identity+28

American preparatory academy

Dance Instructor

Oct 2016 โ€“ Mar 2020 ยท 3 yrs 5 mos ยท Las Vegas Metropolitan Area ยท On-site

  • Teaching youth Ballroom and Latin dance styles as part of the character development program at APA.
Public SpeakingCommunicationFacilitation

Vz dance studios

Graphic Web Designer

Apr 2015 โ€“ Oct 2017 ยท 2 yrs 6 mos ยท Las Vegas, Nevada, United States ยท On-site

  • Create a brand new responsive website for VZ Dance Studios while improving their organic SEO to jump from page 7 to page one within one month of deployment.
  • Produced weekly advertising graphics (web/print) and maintained a daily social media presence for special events, holiday promotions, dance competitions, flash mobs, and monthly class calendars.
  • Maintained and serviced all tech at the studio including computers, printers, sound systems, and general software usage.

Ballroom addiction

Graphic Web Designer

Jan 2015 โ€“ Apr 2015 ยท 3 mos ยท Las Vegas, Nevada, United States ยท Hybrid

  • Redesigned Ballroom Addiction's website to fit modern responsive web standards with in 3 months, along with building their organic SEO rankings from page three to page one of local rankings.

Product designer - ux / ui designer

Senior Product Designer

Aug 2010 โ€“ Jun 2022 ยท 11 yrs 10 mos ยท Las Vegas, Nevada Area ยท Hybrid

  • Facilitating collaborative meetings with business owners and stakeholders to understand which success metrics matter most, learn their overall vision for the company, know what their current solutions are, discover what their struggles are, explore their value proposition, and understand their customers.
  • Creating an overall design strategy for their business based on the information I've gained from stakeholders and users.
  • Conducting user research and competitive analysis
  • Creating user personas for a businesses target audience
  • Developing information architecture through user flows, sitemaps, user stories, and content strategy.
  • Designing web/mobile prototypes for stakeholders, users & customers for product testing.
  • Developing design systems, brand identity systems, pattern libraries, and style guides for businesses
  • Creating graphic, web, and mobile designs for clients
  • Implementing Google Analytics and SEO for web-based projects
  • Measuring user's overall happiness, adoption, and retention rate in relation to a digital product
  • Applying innovative and iterative design principles for the client's current solutions
  • Troubleshooting business's current problems in their present digital products
  • Collaborating with business owners guiding product management and overall workflow
  • Past work:
  • Built responsive websites and apps for various industries such as travel & hospitality, health & fitness, personal development, performing arts, non-profit organizations, online retail, and now financial services.
Mobile DesignDaVinci ResolveUser Experience (UX)Front-end CodingHTML5User Experience Design (UED)+39

Education

Nucamp Coding Bootcamp

Fullstack Web Development

Jun 2021 โ€“ Jan 2022

Bloc

User Experience Design and Front-end Development

Sep 2018 โ€“ Sep 2019

Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts

Bachelor's degree โ€” Culinary Arts/Chef Training

Jan 2006 โ€“ Present

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