Patrick Sobrak-Seaton

Product Designer & Design Engineer

Berlin, Germany · English (Native) · German (B2) · US & German citizenship

patrick@sobrak-seaton.com · sobrak-seaton.com · linkedin.com/in/sobrakseaton

Summary

I am a Product Designer and Design Engineer from the California Bay Area, living and working in Berlin, Germany since 2017.

Currently a Senior Product Designer at UP42, unifying the fragmented satellite data industry. I lead design for satellite tasking, own the design system end-to-end, and guide the shift to AI-accelerated design operations.

Previously, I was the founding designer at Liberate Science, an open-science publishing startup backed by the Shuttleworth and Mozilla Foundations.

Experience

UP42

Senior Product Designer March 2022 – Present Berlin, Germany

Geospatial platform unifying dozens of satellite imagery providers and formats for enterprise mapping and analysis.

• Satellite Tasking: Lead designer for the Tasking Team, which lets customers order new satellite images of a specific place and time, and automate those orders at scale. Notable projects: recurring image orders, triage of proposed images, and extending the timelines of ongoing orders.
• Douglas Design System: Driving the company's tokenized, accessible design system and component library from creation to expansion, maintenance, and adoption across design, engineering, and marketing. Designed in Figma, built in React, and documented in Storybook. Now creating a machine-readable single source of truth for prototyping in production code.
• AI & Design: Guiding the design team's transition toward AI-accelerated design operations, including AI-driven workflows, bespoke design delivery tools, and education and governance for the team.

Liberate Science

Product Designer December 2019 – March 2022 Berlin, Germany

Open-science startup building an alternative to traditional scientific publishing, where researchers share their work as they go rather than after the fact.

• Founding Designer: Grounded the product from day one in user research and iterative testing.
• Hypergraph: Designed a peer-to-peer desktop app for sharing and tracking research, built on Hypercore (now Holepunch).
• ResearchEquals: Redesigned Hypergraph as a web platform after extensive user research, for sharing research as you go from any device, with uptime guaranteed by partner institutions.

ariadne an der spree

Visual Designer August 2017 – December 2019 Berlin, Germany

Antifolio

Freelance Designer June 2015 – December 2019 San Francisco Bay Area

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Media Operations December 2015 – March 2017 Palo Alto, CA

Launch Brigade

Visual Designer October 2014 – November 2015 Santa Cruz, CA

Education

Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin

Industrial and Product Design Partial BA 2018 – 2019

San Jose State University

Animation & Illustration Humanities Minor Partial BFA 2012 – 2014

De Anza College

Art & Design 2011 – 2012