# Max Emrich

> Product Lead @ WindBorne | Building a planetary nervous system

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maxemrich

Max Emrich is a transdisciplinary and reformed industrial designer who practices in the space between innovation, strategic, and industrial design.
Rooted in Munich, based in New York, and influenced by places around the globe, he has led work on medical devices, organic waste upcycling, micromobility, quantum computing, and Artificial Intelligence.
As an innovation and futuring lecturer at Parsons and strategic programs lead at RISD, he seamlessly bridges the rigour of academia and the rapid pace of industry.
He is a connector of dots, people and ideas, rooted in prototyping and making - Seeking to untangle systems and redefine possibilities, he wanders between disciplines, embracing complexity.

## Work Experience
### Product Lead - Capabilities @ WindBorne Systems
Jan 2026 – Present | Пало-Алто, CA
Applying strategic design to the world of forecasting and Atmospheric data collection.

### Product Engineer @ WindBorne Systems
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Part Time Faculty @ Parsons School of Design - The New School
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

### Teaching Fellow at Parsons School of Design Strategies @ Parsons School of Design - The New School
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Instructors for the Innovation Discussion Course in the 6th Semester of the Strategic Design and Management (BBA)

### Making Advisor @ Parsons School of Design - The New School
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Consulting students regarding the prototyping of their projects, navigating resources, or learning new skills.

### Strategic Programs Lead at the Center for Complexity @ Rhode Island School of Design
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

### Strategic Design Consultant @ V1EWPOINT
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Newlab
• Developing strategy around V1ewpoints problem definition and pitch deck, including a renewed CI and mission
• Build physical prototypes to realistically test different UI/UX concepts with end users in parallel to the technical development

### Industrial Designer and Photographer @ studio kønig
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Metropolregion München
• Coordinated with 10+ clients and worked on a diverse range of projects, from product photography
to design for manufacturing and production support.
• Managed client relationships and financial planning with startups, individuals and large corporations.

### Industrial Designer @ SUSHI Bikes
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | München, Bayern, Deutschland
• starting and building a design team of 3 employees (interns and working students)
• leading and developing several mobility projects and devolving and launching 3 inhouse designed products

### Industrial Design and Product Development Intern @ SUSHI Bikes
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Metropolregion München

### Attendee at the Fraunhofer Summer Camp “Research & Design vs. Pandemics” @ Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• working with 2 other students and 2 Fraunhofer Researchers on the topic of Covid-19 early detection, testing
• winning 2. Place in the overall competition

### Organization of the Creative Night during MCBW2020 and 2019 @ Mucbook Magazin
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | München, Bayern, Deutschland
• Directed and coordinated a design conference during the MCBW of Germany's largest design fair
with 50 industry speakers and managed 20+ partnerships with major brands like Adobe and
Campari, successfully drawing an audience of 500+ attendees annually at a budget of 20,000€.
• Ensured financial inclusivity and offered tickets for just 15€ for broad participation and accessibility.


## Education
### Master of Fine Arts - MFA in Transdisciplinary Design
Parsons School of Design - The New School

### DAAD graduate fellow in the field of fine arts/design/film
DAAD German Academic Exchange Service

### Fulbright Fellow - Accepted in but declined due to incompatibility with the DAAD Scholarship
Fulbright Association

### Bachelor's degree in Industrie- und Produktdesign
Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences

### Fulbright Fellow @Summer Institute in VT’s Center for Communicating Science
Virginia Tech

### Academic Programm for Entrepreneurship
Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship gGmbH

### Abitur in German, Math, Art, English and Geographie
Gymnasium Ottobrunn


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maxemrich
- Portfolio: https://www.maxemrich.de

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Last updated: 2026-04-13