Portrait of Andrew Tolentino

Andrew Tolentino

Life & Career Coach and Product Design Leader

Professional coach and founder of Honest Club, with 20 years of product design experience and a track record of building and leading design teams at Intuit Credit Karma.

Coaching

I coach people who are stuck and need help finding their direction when the usual conversations fall short. My clients are product designers, leaders, and people in transition. If this sounds like you, let's talk.

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Experience

Founder and Professional Life & Career Coach

2026 - Present

Honest Club 路 San Francisco, CA

A coaching practice and community for product designers who need more than generic career advice. I work with career changers, designers from non-traditional backgrounds, and ICs moving into management. I teach the fundamentals, then help people apply them to their reality.

Senior Manager, Product Design

2011 - 2026

Intuit Credit Karma 路 San Francisco & Oakland, CA

Joined in 2011 to design and build experiences helping members improve their credit. From 2017, led and managed design for the Home vertical, helping members make progress toward buying and owning a home. Grew from IC designer to design manager over 15 years, hiring and developing design teams along the way.

Lead Production / UX Designer

2009 - 2011

QualityHealth (acquired by Sharecare) 路 Jersey City, NJ

Led production and UX design for consumer health experiences.

Things I'm Building

This Week

A one-page dashboard that pulls my calendar into a single glanceable week

Tater Tot Tour

A crew-rated map of Bay Area restaurants serving tater tots

Eat Andrew Eat

A map of where I've eaten, what I ordered, and whether I'd go back

Maker Space

Cake Therapy

Previous pop-up Filipino & Asian bakery in San Francisco

Swicy

Weekly podcast with hot takes on life, culture, and food (currently on hiatus)

Skills

Design

  • Product & UX design
  • Design systems
  • User research
  • Prototyping
  • Interaction design
  • AI prototyping
  • AI coding
  • Consumer fintech

Leadership

  • Team management
  • Hiring & onboarding
  • Design strategy
  • Critique facilitation
  • Cross-functional partnership
  • Mentorship

Coaching

  • Co-Active coaching
  • Career transitions
  • Leadership development
  • Workshop facilitation
  • Public speaking
  • Community building

Education

Co-Active Practitioner (CAP)

2026

Co-Active Training Institute (CTI)

Completed CTI's intensive Co-Active coaching program; currently working toward full ICF accreditation.

Executive Program, Social Innovation Design

2019 - 2020

University of Pennsylvania

Design thinking for social innovation, using human-centered practices to understand a situation, define the problem, generate ideas, and prototype and refine them so they can actually be implemented.

B.S., New Jersey Institute of Technology

2005 - 2011

Pi Kappa Phi 路 Student Activities Council 路 Music Interest Club