Takshak ParmarStaff Product Designer
Seattle, WA · open to staff and principal product design roles
I turn fragmented, complex systems into connected and elegant user experiences.
now clears overnight, with one click, for the world's largest workforce.
$10M+ annual run-rate in talent, plus $20M year over year in finance.
employees across 1,842 sites use products I designed.
Figures as measured by the owning business teams post-launch, over the four quarters following each rollout. The two savings above are different kinds of number and are stated separately for that reason.
One firm, one answer.
Proposal production rebuilt as a system: compliance enforced at the frame, every answer with a source, every estimate with evidence behind it.
Moving talent as fast as packages.
A suite of four products replacing 40 disconnected systems, changing how 1M+ employees get found, grown, and moved.
Digitizing a financial ledger.
Onboarding, settlement and policy for Accounting, Tax and Treasury, moved from Excel rituals to one platform. $20M saved YOY.
The mortgage form, unburdened.
The Fannie Mae 1003 redesigned into a progressive flow that asks only for the fields that matter, when they matter.
I build with AI agents.
Design that stops at a static frame hands the hardest decisions to someone else. I build the real thing to find out whether it holds: timing, density, what breaks at the edges. I direct AI coding agents the way I would direct an engineering pod. I specify the interaction, the timing and the fallbacks, the agents write the code, and I review every state in the browser until it is right.
This site is the evidence. Around fourteen thousand lines of HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no framework and no build step, including the motion system and the forty live product screens inside the case studies. Claude and Codex wrote the code. Every decision in it is mine.
See the whole board.
Greenfield products are bets on year five that still have to earn their keep every quarter. Someone has to hold both clocks at once, and be willing to be wrong out loud about the far one.
Know where the model should stop.
Building the AI is the easy part. Deciding which tasks it may act on, which it may only draft for a human, and which it must never touch is the design work — and that is why leadership cleared Anchor in a single review.
Turn taste into systems.
Personal judgment doesn't scale. Design systems, specs, and standards do. I build the machine that keeps quality high after I've left the room.
Speak PM, engineering, and legal.
Products die in translation. I've spent a decade being the person who turns five vocabularies into one decision.
Let evidence argue, so people don't have to.
Thirty interviews before a wireframe; testing every sprint after. Opinions are welcome. Data decides.
Earn adoption. Never mandate it.
Enterprise users can be forced to open a tool, never to love it. That difference is the entire job.
Have a complex system that needs to feel human?
Let’s make it simple.
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