Sky Rivers

Sky Rivers (formerly Katrin Suess)

• Strategic Product Consulting: Consult with scaling tech platforms, enterprise tools, and early-stage ventures on UX architecture, feature adoption, and user retention strategies.
• Workflow & Interface Optimisation: Audit complex digital ecosystems to identify engagement bottlenecks and deliver high-fidelity interface solutions prior to engineering execution.
• AI & Workflow Integration: Leverage generative AI tools (Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, Higgsfield) to accelerate strategic research, rapid wireframing, and workflow mapping.
• Key Client Impact (50+ Platforms Globally): Delivered end-to-end UX architecture and visual identity systems across Australia, Germany, the UK, and the US.

Sky Rivers Wellness

• Real-World to Digital Wellness Experiences: Designed end-to-end user journeys, scaling live multi-sensory events (500+ Sydney events) into digital audio-visual media and online community platforms.
• Audio Engineering & Sound Design: Produced original music, guided meditations, and spatial soundscapes, optimising audio for presence, relaxation, and listener retention.
• Platform Migration & Creator Economy Workflow: Simplified digital touchpoints by migrating offerings from a custom-built Squarespace member site to a Patreon community-driven subscription platform.
• Community-First Ecosystem: Actively building a YouTube channel for wellness experiences, utilising YouTube Studio for analytics tracking, audience retention analysis, and community engagement.

Styleicona

• Design & Strategy: Directed the full product lifecycle for a mobile fashion discovery app, creating end-to-end UX/UI design, brand strategy, and value proposition while managing external engineering execution.
• Venture Capital & Commercial Partnerships: Secured £90k (~$170k AUD) seed investment from retail VC TrueStart and closed a major commercial partnership with Land Securities to activate interactive mall campaigns.
• In-Store Experience & Product Mechanics: Scaled early platform engagement during soft launch to over 332k outfit votes, 5k brand tags, and 3.5k uploaded looks across 1,500 active users, creating a seamless in-store fashion feedback feature for shoppers.
• Creator Marketing & Physical-to-Digital Activations: Managed influencer marketing campaigns with top fashion creators and executed physical-to-digital activations at Trinity Leeds shopping centre to drive organic user acquisition.

Vimily

• End-to-End Product & Technical Leadership: Led product strategy, UX/UI architecture, and software engineering teams for an interactive video platform, overseeing iOS development, web interfaces, and cloud transcoding pipelines.
• Venture Capital & Investor Relations: Raised $180k in angel seed funding across Australia, the UK, and the US to build and launch the initial mobile app and cloud infrastructure.
• Strategic B2C to B2B Platform Pivot: Re-architected core product infrastructure from a consumer storytelling app (Vimily Family) into a high-growth, multi-tenant B2B enterprise marketing and testimonial engine.
• B2B Deployment & Enterprise Dashboards: Designed corporate web identities, admin portals, and custom campaign workflows for commercial partners to collect, moderate, and deploy high-trust user-generated video content at scale.

BlueChilli Tech Accelerator

• Portfolio UX & Design System Architecture: Architected end-to-end UX/UI journeys, wireframes, and scalable design systems for over 10 portfolio startups (including Lime, Housl, and GiggedIn).
• Founder Collaboration & MVP Execution: Collaborated directly with founders to distil complex technical ideas into rapid, high-converting product MVPs.

ZeroMail

• Product Architecture & UI/UX Design: Architected the complete UI/UX framework and interaction design for an innovative inbox productivity platform aimed at streamlining email workflows.
• Capital Acquisition & Seed Funding: Secured $200k in seed investment from enterprise tech provider Citrix Systems to validate and scale core technology development.