Talent and tact // connection and direction.
Helping innovators to get the right people in the room and gain momentum.
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 deserve 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 founded a PhD fellowship in AI, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology with Oxford, Yale, USC, and UCL. I've sourced, redeveloped, and designed space across three continents, and hired opening teams for new companies and for new initiatives inside them.
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 show became a staple for practitioners thinking about user-centered ways to build with AI and its impacts.
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, Tel Aviv, Seattle 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
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