Hi, I’m Parker.

For the past 10 years, I’ve been leading teams in crafting their 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 those with strong organizational practices. As a product design lead, I bring a blend of technical and collaborative skills to make products more successful for both users and the business. My work spans user research, a product's strategy and positioning, design direction (including visual elevation, evolving UX patterns, platform cohesion and simplification, accessibility), and operational scalability (design system, cross-functional process). I care about building tools that help people accomplish their goals, expand their potential, and, ideally, experience beauty.

Approach to teamwork
I believe personal growth strengthens leadership and leads to better work and life outcomes. On every team, I bring the honesty to surface tough truths and the compassion to encourage mindset and behavioral shifts. My background includes training in mindfulness-based developmental coaching, behavior change, and human values theory, and I volunteer at developmental retreats for men. Earlier in my career, I was a partner in a small values-based collaboration consultancy, and for the past five years, I've been the design lead at a leadership coaching company.

If you feel like-minded, I’d love to connect.

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According to my colleagues…

“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, Torch

“It is his honesty, openness to new ideas and personal integrity that resonate with everyone he comes into contact with.”
– Director of Engineering, GNARBOX

“He wins together by being a supportive, cross-functional team member, working with Product and Engineering to accelerate”
– Torch company culture award

According to my colleagues…

“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, Torch

“It is his honesty, openness to new ideas and personal integrity that resonate with everyone he comes into contact with.”– Director of Engineering, GNARBOX

“He wins together by being a supportive, cross-functional team member, working with Product and Engineering to accelerate”– Torch company culture award

“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, Torch

“It is his honesty, openness to new ideas and personal integrity that resonate with everyone he comes into contact with.”
– Director of Engineering, GNARBOX

“He wins together by being a supportive, cross-functional team member, working with Product and Engineering to accelerate”
– Torch company culture award