About this role
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.
About You
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.
Why Sparrow?
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. 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. The diversity of our experiences is one of our strengths. The Sparrow team is made up of people with all types of backgrounds, and we have teammates in 30 states and counting.