For the past decade, I’ve led teams in crafting experience design around human values and market needs. I currently serve as the lead product designer at Torch, a leadership coaching company in San Francisco.
For the past decade, I’ve led teams in crafting experience design around human values and market needs. I currently serve as the lead product designer at Torch, a leadership coaching company in San Francisco.
Approach to product work
I seek out creative teams making positive societal impact and investing in strong organizational practices. As a product design lead, I blend systems thinking, product strategy, and craft to make products more successful for both people and business. My work spans user research, positioning, UX simplification, visual elevation, accessibility, platform cohesion, and operational scalability of processes and systems. I care about building tools that help people achieve more, feel more, and, ideally, experience beauty.
Approach to product work
I seek out creative teams making positive societal impact and investing in strong organizational practices. As a product design lead, I blend systems thinking, product strategy, and craft to make products more successful for both people and business. My work spans user research, positioning, UX simplification, visual elevation, accessibility, platform cohesion, and operational scalability of processes and systems. I care about building tools that help people achieve more, feel more, and, ideally, experience beauty.
Approach to teamwork
I believe personal growth strengthens leadership and leads to better outcomes in work and in life. On every team, I bring the honesty to surface tough truths and the care to support mindset and behavioral shifts. My leadership style draws from training in mindfulness-based developmental coaching, behavior change, and human values theory. Outside of work, I volunteer at developmental retreats. Earlier in my career, I co-founded a values-driven consultancy; today, I'm the design lead at a leadership development company where growth, both personal and organizational, is central to the mission.
I also maintain a small coaching practice for individuals seeking growth in their lives or leadership—an extension of the same values I bring into design.
Approach to teamwork
I believe personal growth strengthens leadership and leads to better outcomes in work and in life. On every team, I bring the honesty to surface tough truths and the care to support mindset and behavioral shifts. My leadership style draws from training in mindfulness-based developmental coaching, behavior change, and human values theory. Outside of work, I volunteer at developmental retreats. Earlier in my career, I co-founded a values-driven consultancy; today, I'm the design lead at a leadership development company where growth, both personal and organizational, is central to the mission.
I also maintain a small coaching practice for individuals seeking growth in their lives or leadership—an extension of the same values I bring into design.
Parker is a strong systems thinker who thoughtfully considers many different underlying facets of a problem in ways that often cause me to reconsider a design or solution.
Product Designer at Torch
Parker is a strong systems thinker who thoughtfully considers many different underlying facets of a problem in ways that often cause me to reconsider a design or solution.
Product Designer at Torch
It is his honesty, openness to new ideas and personal integrity that resonate with everyone he comes into contact with.
Director of Engineering at GNARBOX
It is his honesty, openness to new ideas and personal integrity that resonate with everyone he comes into contact with.
Director of Engineering at GNARBOX
He wins together by being a supportive, cross-functional team member, working with Product and Engineering to accelerate.
Company culture award at Torch
He wins together by being a supportive, cross-functional team member, working with Product and Engineering to accelerate.
Company culture award at Torch