# Adam R.

> Staff Product Designer

Profile: https://flows.cv/adam

I've served as a full-stack product designer on products and features across enterprise and consumer spaces, communicating design vision & strategy to align and guide disparate teams to build in a way that moves products towards providing increasingly better experiences, sharing practices with peers and more junior teammates, and leading by example. I'm an active member of the design community, specifically with my virtual Meetup group, Seattle UX Design Hangout. I've reviewed hundreds of designer portfolios, taught university design courses, mentored dozens of designers, and am still looking for ways to do more.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ brightwheel
Jan 2024 – Invalid Date | Seattle, Washington, United States
Working to deliver outsized customer, business, and team impact by supporting top metrics via mobile app, design systems, and lots of collaboration.

### Staff Product Designer @ Shopify
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Senior designer on the Mobile Team, leading ambitious and high-complexity projects while operating in a trifecta model (Product, Engineering, UX).

### Senior Product Designer @ AngelList
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, United States
Joined the Fundraising Product Team to help iterate on and develop new solutions for people on both sides of the AI investing experience.

### UX/UI Designer @ Twitch
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, United States
Design Lead for the Creator Business team, focusing on solving problems for content creators across all phases of the Twitch streaming experience.

### Sr. User Experience Designer @ Yahoo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, United States
Involved in strategic thinking and leadership for the company's primary demand-side ad platform, experimenting with collaborative processes.

### Sr. User Experience Designer @ BrightRoll
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, United States
Generalist UX/UI designer working on the leading video ad technology platform, supporting research, design, and coding needs.

### Instructor, User Experience Design & Front-End Web Development @ Academy of Art University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, United States
Taught undergraduate students about user-driven design processes through projects focused on solving real-world problems.

### Sr Product Manager + Product Designer @ UserTesting.com
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, United States
Designed and managed products and features, serving as Scrum Product Owner and driving development of MVPs.

### Web/Graphic Designer @ Picaboo
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Palo Alto, United States
Redesigned web pages, reduced support contacts, and produced graphics for various marketing materials.

### Tech/Customer Support Guru @ PBworks
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Provided technical support and developed user manual, assisting with various customer service and documentation tasks.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Jan 2001 – Jan 2005

### Intermediate Level Certificate
Beijing Language and Culture University
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004

### Master's
The University of Queensland
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007


## Contact & Social
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamruf/
- Portfolio: https://adamruf.com/
- Email: mailto:adam@placeholder.flows.cv

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Last updated: 2026-01-30