Riley Parker is a product designer with 8+ years of experience shaping data-dense fintech products from research through launch. They specialize in design systems, clear and fast interfaces, and products that earn user trust.
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.