I lead with a forward-thinking approach, aligning business goals with user needs to craft innovative solutions. My strategic vision empowers teams to create impactful experiences while driving measurable outcomes.
Empowering diverse teams is at the core of my leadership. I cultivate a culture of trust, creativity, and growth, unlocking each team member's potential to achieve excellence and build sustainable success.
I have spearheaded the creation and implementation of comprehensive design systems across start-ups and complex enterprises. Building components, measuring usage, establishing governance, and more.
With extensive experience shaping and managing design organizations, I've developed thriving cultures and scalable processes that drive innovation. My teams consistently deliver exceptional results aligned with strategic objectives.
Thriving in cross-functional environments, I actively partner with stakeholders to synthesize ideas and achieve alignment. My collaborative approach fosters trust, effective communication, and seamless teamwork, ensuring project success.
Proficient across design disciplines, I leverage a versatile toolkit—including Figma, Sketch, Mural, Hotjar, Zeplin, and Google Analytics—to deliver user-centered solutions. Recentl AI tools: Google AI Studio, Claude, Midjourney, and Deep Research
Hello, I'm John Bryan — a strategic design leader with over 13 years of experience transforming ideas into innovative, user-centered solutions. Throughout my career, I've driven the success of high-growth startups (Linux Academy, iLendx) and Fortune 500 companies (Fiserv) by pioneering cutting-edge products, establishing enterprise-wide design systems, and leading design organizations from the ground up.
My leadership style is rooted in empowering teams and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. Whether standardizing design operations or implementing transformational, organization-wide design changes, I excel at aligning strategic design goals with business objectives to deliver measurable results.
From startups to enterprise environments, I'm passionate about crafting experiences that elevate user satisfaction, drive business growth, and inspire creativity.
With his extensive experience and deep expertise, John proved to be the best person for the job. His creative problem-solving skills, superb aesthetics, empathy for various personas, and thoughtful design leadership enabled him to help us develop a high-quality design system for our marketplace. This system has continued to receive great feedback from our broad customer base.
Few people have had the opportunity to report to a design manager who is not only a great mentor but also has a keen sense of design and user experience. We worked in tandem on several of the companies largest projects and he led our team through the transition from startup to a full Fiserv design team. To this day he is one of my favorite managers not only because of his professionalism and open candor with his coworkers but also because of his never-ending mission to make sure all his reports had what they needed to do their jobs.
I have worked with John throughout my very first startup experience. We've delivered a full technology stack for the company in less than a year from ground zero. This would not be possible without John. Not only is he a powerhouse of creativity, but he is also an inspiring leader and a vigorous executor.
I learned a lot under John's direction and our team even earned an award for the client work we did. He was also innovative and resourceful as he evaluated design feasibility and ensured teams completed projects within established timeframes. John is a great design leader and I appreciate the opportunity I had while working with him!
With an engineering background, John really understands the importance of design at a system level and how system wide designs make a huge impact, especially for large companies. Under his leadership, we made design systems a priority for several products that not only created consistency but also ease of implementation and improved performance for world class fin-tech SAAS products.
Empowering Fiserv's Mortgage Director Product, our design organization orchestrated transformative enhancements that led to consecutive wins of the Fintech Breakthrough Award. Elevating the user experience, we collaborated to reshape the future of mortgage services, securing recognition for innovation and excellence two years in a row.
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Collaborated closely with Broadway Bank for an extensive 2-year period, spearheading the integration of groundbreaking lending technologies and jointly crafting a seamless omni-channel banking solution for their valued customers. The remarkable outcome garnered the prestigious 2020 Omni-Experience Award from IDC. Kudos to the dedicated teamwork that transformed this vision into a remarkable banking platform!
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At Gparency, I led the creation of an industry-disrupting platform that redefines how businesses navigate the complexities of commercial real estate. This groundbreaking solution combines cutting-edge technology, data-driven insights, and user-centric design to empower businesses in making informed decisions, optimizing resources, and seizing opportunities in the real estate landscape.
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