Role Description
We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to design thoughtful, high-quality experiences across key areas of the product. You’ll drive end-to-end design processes, partner closely with Product and Engineering, and contribute to improving how Sparrow designs and ships. This is a senior IC role: you’ll take ownership of meaningful product areas, execute with a high degree of autonomy, and help elevate quality and consistency across the product.
What You’ll Do
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Own end-to-end design for product features and workflows—from discovery to flows, UI, interaction details, and shipped outcomes.
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Design for operational complexity: create experiences that handle edge cases, regulatory nuance, and real-world processes without overwhelming users.
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Work across multiple personas: understand user goals and context, and design experiences that feel cohesive across different users and levels of expertise.
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Partner closely with Product & Engineering to clarify problems, explore solutions, define scope, and ship high-quality work quickly.
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Use research and data pragmatically: run scrappy discovery (interviews, workflow mapping, prototype tests), synthesize insights, and iterate.
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Contribute to design quality and consistency: apply and help evolve design patterns and systems that enable speed and coherence.
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Communicate clearly: share rationale, tradeoffs, and decisions to build alignment across the EPD team.
About You
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4–6+ years of product design experience (or equivalent), including shipping meaningful product work.
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Experience designing complex, workflow-heavy products (bonus if operationally complex: fintech/healthcare/HR/payments/insurance/benefits/admin tools, etc.).
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Strong interaction and systems thinking—able to design flows that handle nuance, permissions, states, and exceptions.
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Comfort working with ambiguity and moving quickly: you can contribute to problem definition, propose options, and iterate toward strong solutions.
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Strong collaboration skills with Product and Engineering, including participating in scope and tradeoff discussions.
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Excellent craft and attention to detail in UI, content, and interaction patterns.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills.
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Passionate about applying technology to real, difficult problems, who loves building beautiful and useful products, and who finds our mission compelling.
Compensation
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This is a full-time, exempt position.
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Compensation is $156,200 at the national average, but can range from $139,018-$171,820 based on your state of residence.
Why Sparrow?
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Our work at Sparrow is impactful. We help People teams with one of the hardest parts of their job, and we support employees at a time when they need it most.
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We’re driven by our mission, much like a nonprofit, but with the resources and scale of a fast-growing venture-backed company.
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Sparrow is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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The diversity of our experiences is one of our strengths.
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The Sparrow team is made up of people with all types of backgrounds, and we have teammates in 30 states and counting.