# Alberto Guzmán

> Staff Product Designer

Profile: https://flows.cv/alberto

I'm a product designer that flexes research, strategy, and cross-functional leadership to creatively solve business problems and design products to help people that need it the most. In my free time, I make music and tinker with web development.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Coursera
Jan 2020 – Invalid Date | San Francisco, United States
Designing services that provide universal access to the world's best education.

### Head Of Design @ Expa (formerly Pared)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Led a 5-person design team, shaped product strategy, engineered user-centered thinking co-directed rebrand with an external agency, managed brand alignment, and led cross-functional projects to better tools that make restaurants life easier.

### Founding Designer @ Expa (formerly Pared)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, United States
1st design hire at a restaurant-tech startup from Seed stage to Series B.

### Product Designer @ RightBrainUI by Terminus
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Atlanta, United States
2nd design hire at a Series A marketing-tech startup that helped sales and marketing teams align on attribution and flow on their campaigns. Led design for enterprise and data visualization product. Acquired by Terminus in December 2017.

### Senior Product Designer @ Credit Sesame
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, United States
Led product and design initiatives at a finance-tech startup during Series C & D stages that empowered customers to understand and improve their financial wellness. Contributed to retention boost by 2x, ARPU by 8x, and continued annual revenue growth.

### Designer @ Self-employed
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, United States
Freelance design projects. Client highlights include Daily's Workshop, Stanford BlackList Weekend, Reboot Systems, and Everyday People A Cappella.

### Human-Computer Interaction Research Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Stanford, United States
Applied design thinking methodologies to research involving autonomous driving interfaces and human-robot interaction. Worked at the CHIMe Lab (Communication between Humans and Interactive Media Lab) under the wings of Cliff Nass. Communications professor who pioneered research on multitasking and how humans interact with computers.

### Business Operations @ Clinkle
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, United States
2nd tech startup experience. Led marketing, testing, and on-boarding for merchant partners. Supported market research and product-ideation strategy.

### Associate Product Manager @ Bump Technologies
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, United States
1st tech startup experience. Led UX research and usability strategy. Designed and developed an MVP using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML, and Backbone's API.

### Marketing Associate @ Stanford University Press
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Stanford, United States
Managed marketing and communications between the Stanford Press and the country's top academic journals.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science
Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guzmanalberto/
- Email: mailto:alberto@placeholder.flows.cv

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Last updated: 2026-01-31