Summary
Joseph Parks is a Lead Product Designer with eight years of experience building user-centered, growth-focused products across finance, government, marketing, and consumer apps. He specializes in scaling design systems and turning AI product concepts into multi-squad production programs, coordinating cross-functional teams to accelerate development. Skilled in Figma auto-layout and variants, he has a track record of unifying duplicated codebases and establishing governance for sustainable design systems. Based in Grand Rapids, he blends front-end development training with content-production roots, which informs a pragmatic approach to prototyping, user research, and launch-oriented roadmaps. Notably, he moves between hands-on UI work and strategic system-level thinking to drive both adoption and rapid product scaling.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Development Bootcamp Computer Software Engineering, Front End Development Bootcamp Computer Software Engineering at Grand Circus
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Advertising & Public Relations, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Advertising & Public Relations at Grand Valley State University
English