John Ma

About

With a Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science with a Computer Specialization and a minor in Digital Humanities from UCLA, and certificates in Front End Web Development and User Experience Design from General Assembly, [Name] has built a robust career in product design. Currently the Founding Product Designer at Bridge, [Name] is pioneering financial infrastructure for stablecoins. Previously, [Name] served as Senior Product Designer, AI at Apollo.io, leading AI message intelligence initiatives. At Scale AI, [Name] contributed significantly to Gen AI labeling and special projects, driving substantial ARR growth and efficiency improvements. As the Founder and Lead Designer of Quadratic Design Studio, [Name] partnered with over 20 crypto, AI, and SaaS companies, helping them achieve product-market fit and secure funding.

Experience

• Founding Product Designer · Bridge06-01-2024

  Building the future financial infrastructure for stablecoin to facilitate global payment and move money cross border. Orchestration provides a Stripe-like experience enabling developers to easily convert between any two dollar formats (fiat, USDC, USDP, USDT, etc.). Issuance gives developers the ability to convert any of these dollars into a stablecoin they can program and benefit from. We believe our infrastructure will become a critical component of the global payments landscape. Raised a Series A and backed by Sequoia Capital and Index Venture.

• Senior Product Designer, AI · Apollo.io07-01-2023 – 06-01-2024

  Apollo is an all-in-one GTM sales platform with buyer database and tools to help SDRs and AEs to find prospects and intelligently reach them. Raised a Series D round of $100M led by Bain Capital Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Led design in AI message intelligence by integrating GPT-4 into prospecting and messaging workflow. Contributed to launching 4 major key features such as email analyzer, AI rephraser, email AI template and content hub. Grew MAU for message intelligence from 996 to 4201 users with a 4x increase after key initiatives were launched. Collaborated with research, content and product to envision vision work for AI agent. Reduced 12% of drop off in the AI template creation funnel by consolidating and simplifying UX for one-off AI email generation. Crafted and presented various product competitive analysis to both product and design team which led to adding new features' ideas into the product roadmap.

• Product Designer, Gen AI · Scale AI12-01-2022 – 07-01-2023

  Scale AI accelerates the development of AI applications by providing infrastructure and tools to power the entire ML and GenAI lifecycle. Joined during Series D and left in Series E (3.35B -> 7.3B Valuation). Backed by YC, Founders Fund, Tiger Global, Index Ventures, etc. Design Lead for Gen AI labeling suite, and previously worked on shipping product across Scale Pro, 3D, 2D labeling, mapping and customer success acceleration for enterprise customers. Helped launch 3 product demos that drove 70M ARR with key customers like GM and Toyota. Helped relaunch design system 3.0 and increased designer efficiency by 4x and saved 32% taskers time with redesigned internal labeling tools.

• Product Design, Special Projects · Scale AI10-01-2021 – 12-01-2022

  Designing product with better UX/UI, shaping product strategy and doing occasional front end for various special projects and customer demo. Federal, Catalog, Mapping, Synthetic Data.

• Founder and Lead Designer · Quadratic Design Studio01-01-2020 – 08-01-2022

  Quadratic Design Studio is an emerging technology crypto-focused design studio that helps early-stage founders to rapidly test out ideas, supercharge their product and create end-to-end branding in order to find product-market fit and raise a new round of funding. Since 2021, we partnered with 20+ crypto, AI and SaaS companies across the world, amassing >150M TVL. Selected clients: SushiSwap (Crypto Dex), Sei (Parallelized EVM chain, raised 30M from Jump Crypto, Distributed Global, Multicoin Capital), Halliday.xyz (Interchain wallet infra, raised 6M seed round from a16z), Doppel (modern AI security platform, raised 14M series A from a16z, South Park Commons, SV Angels), Enclave Market (institutional-grade digital asset trading platform, backed by Ava Labs), Ramper (digital crypto wallet, raised 3M pre-seed round by Hashed), Kinetic.xyz (cross-chain NFT trading platform, raised 7M pre-seed from Sequoia Capital, Jump Crypto, SV Angel).

Education

• UCLABachelor's, Cognitive Science with Computer Specialization, Digital Humanities minor
• General AssemblyCertificate, Front End Web Development (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JQuery, Javascript)
• General AssemblyCertificate, User Experience Design
• Diocesan Boys' School

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