I coach product designers and design leaders one-on-one on career transitions, moves into management, and finding direction when the usual advice falls short. Sessions are real conversations, not scripts.
Andrew Tolentino
Life & Career Coach and Designer
Design coach & founder of Honest Club. Formerly 20 years in product design, most recently leading design teams at Credit Karma.
Coaching
Experience
Founder & Professional Design + Life Coach
2026 - Present
Honest Club · 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.
Product Design Manager II
2011 - 2026
Credit Karma · 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 · Marlboro, NJ
Led production and UX design for consumer health experiences.
Things I'm Building
A one-page dashboard that pulls my calendar into a single glanceable week
A crew-rated map of Bay Area restaurants serving tater tots
A map of where I've eaten, what I ordered, and whether I'd go back
Maker Space
Founder, executive & pastry chef · Pop-up Filipino & Asian bakery in San Francisco
Banana Bread Boy
Small-batch banana bread
Pottery & ceramics studio
Weekly podcast co-host with hot takes on life, culture, and food
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 · Student Activities Council · Music Interest Club