# Eric Ertmann

> Design leader @ Mercury

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ericertmann

## Work Experience
### Head of Product Design, Core @ Mercury
Jan 2025 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
Supporting the design teams focused on improving the core experience and parts of Mercury that customers use every day.

### Head of Design, Consumer Products @ Opendoor
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States
I led the design teams for all of Opendoor's consumer products, which included selling, buying, and the effort to build a marketplace where buyers and sellers can connect directly to transact on a home.

### Senior Design Manager @ Coinbase
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Portland, Oregon, United States
Led design for Identity, Onboarding & Risk, created products that eased the creation of accounts, ensured the safety of people's investments, and explored new ways of representing identity in the Web3 era.

Subsequently led design for Yield and Subscriptions products, including two of our top revenue generating products: asset staking and Coinbase One.

### Product Design Manager @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Supported the work of several design teams focused on building features that enabled communities to flourish on Facebook.

### Experience Designer @ Airbnb
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Helped design the end-to-end guest experience on Airbnb, focusing specifically on how people search and find homes and experiences on the platform.

### Experience Designer @ Airbnb
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States
Led design on Airbnb Experiences focused on tools that enabled experience hosts to successfully promote & operate their experiences. We worked with hosts across the globe to understand their process and built host-facing and guest-facing features that solved the most important issues for hosts.

### Product Designer @ Facebook
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, CA
Led design for a wide spectrum of features for the Facebook Groups product, scaling the product from less than 400m monthly active users, to over a billion. In this time, I helped to found many of the most important pillars of Facebook's communities products, including a team specifically focused on admin tools and issues, and a foundational team that supported groups as a platform.

In the latter days of my time here, I worked on a small specially formed design team focused on defining the next 10 years of Facebook.

### Design Lead (CMU Capstone) @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Leading the design efforts on a multi-disciplinary team for Bloomberg as part of Carnegie Mellon's HCI Master’s Program. Worked with Bloomberg to research, design, and prototype a Terminal based solution with the aim of improving internal collaboration amongst its sixteen thousand employees, nearly all of whom use the Bloomberg Terminal.

### Designer @ Hurley
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Costa Mesa, CA
Developed and designed an iOS application for creating and ordering your own custom boardshorts. Built interactive displays for retail spaces.


## Education
### Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University

### BA in Graphic Design
California State University, Chico


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ericertmann

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Last updated: 2026-04-13