# Stefan Rauch > Staff Product Designer at Polyform Studio, AI Systems Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Profile: https://flows.cv/stefanrauch Product designer with 13 years experience, 5 staff-principal roles, 40+ B2B & B2C products, 32+ 0-to-1 projects, mentorship of 800+ designers (industry / academia), and instruction at 3 design schools. I lead organization-wide design and R&D initiatives for emerging technology and mature products across platforms (iOS, Android, Web, Hardware), developing system-of-systems approaches across products and cross-functional domains, and designing platform infrastructure and systems. My work has focused on creating reinforcing patterns that turn constraints into competitive advantages, defining new interaction approaches for categories of software, developing novel measurement frameworks, and designing infrastructure that identifies and formalizes emergent patterns. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Polyform Studio Jan 2024 – Present | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Product design studio in Vancouver, Canada. • Designed Fluid mobile product for multi-agent system with graph database for cross-domain pattern synthesis. Defined data models for ReAct agent context retrieval, pattern storage at multiple abstraction levels, and recommendation workflows. • Designed research automation system with multiple interaction surfaces: Voice Walkthrough framework (voice capture, Whisper transcription, telemetry tags as metadata), LLM-powered conversational interface for data exploration, and workflow specification tools. ### Principal Product Designer @ XQ Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 File system and security products for zero-trust data protection and compliance. • Zero-to-one design of Vault, an encrypted file system aggregating data across cloud storage services. • Created unified design system across product portfolio (Dashboard, Mail, Vault, Help Center). Established scalable primitives (2x release velocity) while enabling cross-product consistency. • Defined ABAC permission model enabling scalability without role explosion. Designed contextual error framework turning policy violations into actionable user feedback. Enabled granular management of licensing, feature access, and admin tools. ### Principal Product Designer @ Eventbase Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada White-label event apps for the world’s largest technology companies. • Designed platform infrastructure, internal tool suites (Web), mobile products (iOS, Android), internal services. ### Staff Product Designer @ Interbit (formerly BTL Group) Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Vancouver, BC Developer tools and decentralized identity management platform. • Designed decentralized identity platform and validation system using privacy-preserving tokens to abstract personal data, enabling flexible third-party verification through SSO integration without exposing sensitive information. • Defined infrastructure for third-party applications: open-source design system, ABAC permission model for access control, multiplayer interaction framework for state synchronization. ### UX Graduate Studio Program Lead @ Vancouver Film School Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Design and technology school in Vancouver, Canada. • 2 years of curriculum development and instruction, leading workshops to define 300+ graduate projects. ### Senior Product Designer @ Momentus, A Softvision Studio Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Design and development agency for startups and Fortune 50 companies. • Senior design IC leading 24+ zero-to-one products for Fortune 50 clients and startups across iOS, Android, Web, AR/VR, and hardware platforms. Led technical projects in partnership with CTO and principal engineer. Created frameworks enabling design team to work on constrained hardware environments (BLE, E-ink, RTOS, haptics). ### Digital Design: Curriculum Advisor & Lecturer @ The Art Institutes Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Design school in Vancouver, Canada. • As a member of the Program Advisory Board, I provided curriculum review, mentored students and alumni, conducted quarterly critiques of graduate work, and served as a regular lecturer. ### Senior Product Designer @ ACT Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 Contract through Momentus Software. • Led service and software design of iPad app to deliver college-readiness evaluations for students around the world and modernize test administration operations. • Used for 65% of US high-school students graduating each year since 2016, and many more globally. ### Staff Product Designer @ iConnectedHome Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 Mobile software to simplify the setup of connected home devices. • Designed iOS product integrating HomeKit, Zigbee, and Google Home through cross-protocol orchestration. Created templates reducing device setup and scene configuration by 70%. • Defined recommendation system identifying usage patterns across time, location, activity to surface proactive automation suggestions. ### Senior Product Designer @ lululemon Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 R&D Contract through Momentus Software. • Led R&D for activity tracking wearable defining hardware-software interfaces and data models. Designed chronological interaction model showing activity patterns and correlations across mindfulness, yoga, and physical activities (500-person study validation). • Led design efforts for software-hardware R&D of interactive mirror platform (200+ mirrors, 120 global stores, 250K monthly interactions). Established Human Interface Guidelines. Defined recommendation systems enabling product and community discovery. ### User Experience: Lead Instructor & Curriculum Development @ RED Academy Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Vancouver, Canada Area Design and technology bootcamp in Vancouver, Canada. • Developed and refined a 10-week, 60-hour curriculum for a part-time program across 7 quarters, with graduates successfully landing positions at top companies like Apple, Square, Lululemon, and Metalab. ### Senior Product Designer @ Verizon Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 R&D Contract through Momentus Software. • Led design efforts for software-hardware R&D for second-screen system integrating E-ink displays with iOS devices. Established Human Interface Guidelines and design language for E-ink interactions and context-aware filtering reducing device interruptions. ### Product Design Lead @ Junction Consulting Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 • Lead designer on 18 projects, managed many others. ### Graphic Designer @ The Gathering Place Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 • Design for non-profit entity in the social-work sector. ## Education ### Design The Art Institutes ### Nanaimo District Secondary School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rauchstefan --- Source: https://flows.cv/stefanrauch JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stefanrauch/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31