Riley Parker is a product designer with 8+ years of experience shaping data-dense fintech products from research through launch. Their strengths include design systems, user research, and clear, trust-building interfaces.
Work experience
Senior Product Designer at Stripe
Jan 2021 to Present, New York, NY
• Led design for the payments dashboard, cutting reconciliation time 40% for 12,000+ merchants.
• Built a reusable charts and tables system adopted by six product teams, removing months of duplicated work.
• Drove the 0 to 1 design of Instant Payouts, contributing to a $1.2B annualized volume run rate.
• Ran a quarterly research cadence with 40+ operators that reshaped the roadmap.
Product Designer at Brex
Jan 2019 to Jan 2021, San Francisco, CA
• Owned the spend-tracking flows end to end, from research to launch, lifting weekly active use 28%.
• Built the first design-system tokens and components used across the entire app.
• Shipped mobile receipt capture, cutting expense filing time roughly in half.
Product Designer at Airbnb
Jan 2017 to Jan 2019, San Francisco, CA
• Redesigned the host onboarding funnel, increasing completion 22%.
• Partnered with data science on a pricing-suggestions tool adopted by 300k+ hosts.
Product Design Intern at Wealthfront
Jan 2016 to Jan 2016, Redwood City, CA
• Prototyped a goals-based planning experience that later shipped to all clients.