Talent and tact // connection and direction.
Helping innovators to get the right people in the room and gain momentum.
“Elias doesn't just help fill roles; he helps define success in high-stakes innovation projects.”
Stefan Ramsbott, Product Innovation Lead, World Central Kitchen
Deeply specialized in UX research, product design, and AI - 15+ yrs in UX, 10+ yrs in AI.
Hands-on partnership for teams that demand better than generic recruiting or hand-wavy strategy.
Sharpen the story. Find the people. Make it move.
Principles & Principal
Curating the right team and helping them build momentum deserves a strategic, user-centered approach - especially on the frontiers of innovation.
Put simply, I love working with visionaries to help get the right people in the room.
Here is a bit of my story - what does it inspire in you?
Elias Abraham Parker
With 18 years in UX, 10+ in AI, and 200+ senior placements, I've worked with organizations from Boeing, IDEO, Frog, and Ogilvy to OneReach.ai, Deloitte, World Central Kitchen, the American Red Cross, Patagonia and well-backed tech startups and consumer brands.
I've had the honor of working closely with leaders including NASA chiefs, CTOs at Google and IBM, New York Times-bestselling authors like Karen Hao, and Principal AI Designers and Chief Scientists at Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Databricks, and Adobe.
I created a PhD fellowship in AI, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology with Oxford, Yale, USC, and UCL. I've also sourced, redeveloped, and designed office spaces across three continents, and first hires for for new companies as well as for new initiatives inside established organizations.
I ran UX Magazine for a decade, executive produced the Invisible Machines podcast, a spin-off of Age of Invisible Machines - the first Wall Street Journal bestseller on AI agents (which I also produced).
Leading the team past one million downloads and 100+ guests, the Invisible Machines show became a staple for practitioners leading user-centered approaches to building responsibly with AI.
I began my career as an ethnographer (Royal Roads, M.A. Ethno-Political Conflict Analysis and Management - from the graduate school where X-Men was filmed).
Years facilitating intergroup dialogue at international retreats showed me how people actually talk across difference; hiring, for me, is research, not keyword matching.
Toronto-born; I've operated in Vancouver, Denver, New York, Seattle, Berkeley, Tel Aviv and Kyiv. A former sponsored athlete, and an aggressively casual cyclist, I call Denver home with my wife, two kids, and two dogs.
I founded Conduitt on the simple premise that high-stakes hiring deserves the same approach as strategy and user-centered research and design work - especially on the frontiers of innovation.
My practice applies that approach to talent strategy and acquisition (focusing on who people are, what they need, where they're going, who fits), partnering with visionaries who want that approach in talent strategy and acquisition.
The résumé is long, but the point is simple: I love getting the right people in the room and give it a thoughtful, deliberate approach.
- Elias
“In the age of AI, curation will become increasingly important.
I see Elias as the ultimate curator, curating people and relationships”
Cobus Greyling, AI Analyst & Chief Evangelist, Kore.ai
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