[Hiring] Senior Product Designer @Sparrow

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

• Own end-to-end design for product features and workflows—from discovery to flows, UI, interaction details, and shipped outcomes.
• Design for operational complexity: create experiences that handle edge cases, regulatory nuance, and real-world processes without overwhelming users.
• Work across multiple personas: understand user goals and context, and design experiences that feel cohesive across different users and levels of expertise.
• Partner closely with Product & Engineering to clarify problems, explore solutions, define scope, and ship high-quality work quickly.
• Use research and data pragmatically: run scrappy discovery (interviews, workflow mapping, prototype tests), synthesize insights, and iterate.
• Contribute to design quality and consistency: apply and help evolve design patterns and systems that enable speed and coherence.
• Communicate clearly: share rationale, tradeoffs, and decisions to build alignment across the EPD team.
• As an early senior member of the design team, you’ll play an important role in shaping the product experience and contributing to how we build.

Qualifications

• 4–6+ years of product design experience (or equivalent), including shipping meaningful product work.
• Experience designing complex, workflow-heavy products (bonus if operationally complex: fintech/healthcare/HR/payments/insurance/benefits/admin tools, etc.).
• Strong interaction and systems thinking—able to design flows that handle nuance, permissions, states, and exceptions.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and moving quickly: you can contribute to problem definition, propose options, and iterate toward strong solutions.
• Strong collaboration skills with Product and Engineering, including participating in scope and tradeoff discussions.
• Excellent craft and attention to detail in UI, content, and interaction patterns.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Passionate about applying technology to real, difficult problems, who loves building beautiful and useful products, and who finds our mission compelling.

Compensation

• This is a full-time, exempt position.
• Compensation is $156,200 at the national average, but can range from $139,018-$171,820 based on your state of residence.

Benefits

• Our work at Sparrow is impactful, helping People teams with one of the hardest parts of their job.
• We support employees at a time when they need it most.
• We’re driven by our mission, much like a nonprofit, but with the resources and scale of a fast-growing venture-backed company.
• Sparrow is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, united by our excitement for the mission and product.
• The diversity of our experiences is one of our strengths, with teammates in 40 states and counting.