Richard Mercado

Richard Mercado currently serves as the Social Media & Content Lead at bolt.new since July 2025 and as a Content Creator for The Farmlink Project since October 2023. Prior experience includes roles as Community Manager and Social Media Manager at Monks from July 2022 to June 2025, and a short tenure as Video Editor at Optimist in late 2023. Richard also managed social media for JAXJOX from June 2021 to July 2022 and was a Sales Manager and Content Creator for The North Face, a VF Company, from August 2018 to July 2021. Earlier in the career, Richard worked as a Freelance Graphic Designer through Upwork from July 2015 to August 2018. Educationally, Richard is pursuing an Associate's degree in Graphic Design from the Academy of Art University, expected to be completed in June 2022.