# Ryan Wolff

> Sr UX Researcher | Strategic Design Research | Stanford Product Design

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryanwolff

## Work Experience
### User Researcher @ ALSO.
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
ALSO. is a Series B micro-mobility start up, spun out of RIVIAN's future projects group, launching a new vertically integrated e-bike system, the TM-B.

Led usability research and first external testing across hardware, embedded UI and mobile for the TM-B.

### UX and Product Engineer @ Liminal
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Emeryville, California, United States
Liminal Insights is a Series A start-up that builds high-throughput industrial diagnostic tools for EV battery cells, that leverage ultrasound and machine learning for defect detection, quality control and process improvements regardless of cell chemistry.

[Manufacturing, Automation, Battery, Energy Storage]

Areas of focus:
- Customer Discovery / Qualitative ethnographic research / needfinding across new and existing customer profiles
- Mapping critical user flows and optimization of complex operational processes on factory floor
- Led cross functional collaboration across hardware, software and controls engineering
- Led human factors engineering from concept development through full scale factory deployment   
- Drove 65% reduction in machine downtime via process improvements

### Design Researcher @ Sea Foundry
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Oakland, California, United States
SeaFoundry is an early stage business using industrial automation to scale coral restoration and aquaculture farming.

[Robotics, AI, Automation, AgTech] 

Areas of focus: 
- Led definition of long-term strategic vision and technology roadmap across key verticals
- Management of key customers and stakeholders
- Development of new product concepts and prototypes
- Systems integration  
- Usability testing across full product suite and end-to-end user experience

### UX and Product Engineer @ Liminal
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Emeryville, California, United States
Liminal Insights is a Series A start-up that builds high-throughput industrial diagnostic tools for EV battery cells, that leverage ultrasound and machine learning for defect detection, quality control and process improvements regardless of cell chemistry. 

[Manufacturing, Automation, Battery, Energy Storage]

Areas of focus:
- Customer Discovery / Qualitative ethnographic research / needfinding across new and existing customer profiles
- Mapping critical user flows and optimization of complex operational processes on factory floor
- Led cross functional collaboration across hardware, software and controls engineering
- Led human factors engineering from concept development through full scale factory deployment 
- Drove 65% reduction in machine downtime via process improvements

### Senior UX Researcher @ Splunk
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Splunk powered over 15,000 customers across 110 + countries to turn data into action and digital resilience every day. With annual recurring revenue topping ~$4.2 billion and a $28 billion acquisition by Cisco, we scaled from an enterprise software pioneer into a global observability and security platform leader.

[Enterprise SaaS, Developer Tools]

Areas of focus: 
- New feature development, prototyping, and technology roadmap definition
- Qualitative ethnographic research / needfinding across new and existing customer profiles
- Producing customer personas, user journeys, UX flow diagrams and other key artifacts 
- Key contributor to numerous feature redesigns (Onboarding experience, Session Replay tool etc.)
- Development of new product concepts and prototypes 
- Competitive analysis
- Usability testing across full product suite and end-to-end user experience 
- Mentorship across the product, design, and engineering orgs

### Senior UX Researcher @ Juul Labs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
[Consumer HW / SW]

Areas of focus: 
- Qualitative ethnographic research / needfinding across new and existing markets
- Market strategy (esp. identifying growth opportunities and risk mitigation)
- Hardware / software interaction design
- Development of new product concepts and prototypes 
- Usability testing across full product suite and end-to-end user experience

### Design Researcher @ Quotient Design Research
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Quotient Design Research is a boutique consulting firm specializing in framing problems and re-framing solutions in support of innovation, known for generating billions of dollars in client revenue.

### Principle Product Designer @ Mind Full
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Leading and managing design initiatives across a number of early and late stage businesses.

Clients included:
- Osmo ($32.5M raised / Acquired for $120M)
- Creator ($18.7M raised)
- Marco Polo ($25M raised)
- Airbus (EADSY,  mkt cap $180B)

Areas of focus:
- User Research / Customer Discovery
- Strategy
- Hardware / software interaction design
- Development of new product concepts and prototypes 
- Industrial Design

### MS in Product Design @ Stanford University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Stanford, CA

### PV System Designer @ Gehrlicher Solar
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Springfield, NJ

### Engineer @ Mercury Solar Systems
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Product Design
Stanford University

### Stanford Ignite in Innovation & Entreprenuership
Stanford University Graduate School of Business

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering
Cornell University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryanmwolff
- Portfolio: http://www.RyanWolffDesign.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13