About us Sparrow is the first high-tech, high-touch employee leave management solution. Our mission is to make it simple for companies to provide their employees with all kinds of leave (i.e. family, medical, etc.). Currently, the leave management process is painful and inefficient for everyone. Company leaders struggle to keep up with regulations and processes that change frequently, and the employees going on leave are overwhelmed by bureaucracy at an exceptionally important juncture in their career. Sparrow transforms this ordinarily tedious, error-prone, complex to remain compliant, and time-consuming process into a 30-minute end-to-end experience saving teams time (20 - 40 hours per leave) and money (up to $30K per leave). Sparrow is headquartered in San Francisco with remote employees across the country. Sparrow is a diverse, highly talented, and supportive team. Together, we are hardworking, collaborative, smart, and humble—after all, we’re solving real problems. About Us Sparrow is the first high-tech, high-touch employee leave management solution. Our mission is to make it simple for companies to provide their employees with all kinds of leave (i.e. family, medical, etc.). Currently, the leave management process is painful and inefficient for everyone. Company leaders struggle to keep up with regulations and processes that change frequently, and the employees going on leave are overwhelmed by bureaucracy at an exceptionally important juncture in their career. Sparrow transforms this ordinarily tedious, error-prone, complex to remain compliant, and time-consuming process into a 30-minute end-to-end experience saving teams time (20 - 40 hours per leave) and money (up to $30K per leave). Sparrow is headquartered in San Francisco with remote employees across the country. Sparrow is a diverse, highly talented, and supportive team. Together, we are hardworking, collaborative, smart, and humble—after all, we’re solving real problems. As an early member of the engineering leadership team, you will have a significant opportunity to play a pivotal role in Sparrow’s growth and setting the direction and culture of the engineering team. The Role We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to own design for major areas of the product and raise the bar on how Sparrow designs and ships. This is an IC leadership role: you’ll drive end-to-end design, partner deeply with Product and Engineering, and influence strategy, quality, and consistency across the product. What You’ll Do In this role you will: - Own end-to-end design for key product areas—from discovery to flows, UI, interaction details, and shipped outcomes. - Design for operational complexity: create experiences that handle edge cases, regulatory/program nuance, and real-world processes without overwhelming users. - Work across multiple personas: understand user goals and context, and craft experiences that feel cohesive even when users have different needs 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. - Raise the bar for quality and consistency: contribute to and evolve design patterns/systems that enable speed and coherence. - Communicate clearly: share rationale, tradeoffs, and decisions in a way that builds alignment across the team. As an early senior member of the design function, you’ll have meaningful influence on our product direction, customer experience, and how we build. About You We’re looking for a product-minded designer who stays close to customers and the details—someone who can simplify complex systems into calm, intuitive experiences. More specifically, we’re looking for people with: - 7+ years of product design experience (or equivalent), including shipping meaningful product work. - Experience designing complex, workflow-heavy products (bonus if the product is 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 gracefully. - Comfort working with ambiguity and moving quickly: you can define the problem, propose options, and iterate toward the best solution. - Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with PM and Engineering, including shaping scope and making tradeoffs. - Excellent craft and attention to detail in UI, content, and interaction patterns. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ultimately, most important to us is someone who is passionate about applying technology to real difficult problems, who loves building beautiful useful products, and who finds our mission compelling. 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. While we are united by our excitement for the mission and product, 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. To learn more about the Sparrow team and its benefits, check out our careers page.

• Own the design process end-to-end for your product area, identifying opportunities to improve user experience and drive product impact • Design intuitive, user-friendly experiences that balance technical complexity with accessibility and ease of use • Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle • Conduct user research to understand needs, validate design decisions, and translate insights into actionable design improvements • Maintain a high craft and quality bar, ensuring every detail contributes to a cohesive and polished experience • Contribute to design systems and patterns that scale across the North platform • Partner with engineering to ensure designs are implemented with fidelity and make pragmatic tradeoffs when needed

Senior Product Designer College Board – Technology – Core Assessment Platform Location: Remote - Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). Type: This is a full-time position. Please include a portfolio of your work in your application that shows examples of your experience leading design research initiatives, we are unable to consider applications without a portfolio link. About Technology and Design at College Board  We are a mission-driven engineering and design team building and evolving the technology that powers and protects the future of learning. Our systems support highly trusted education programs used by millions of students each year, operating at significant scale and public responsibility. Today, we are focused on designing and delivering a critical new initiative that extends our platform in meaningful ways: blending foundational system work with thoughtful experimentation as we adapt to emerging technologies and new learner needs. We combine modern, cloud-native engineering practices with years of platform modernization, security hardening, and large-scale digital delivery, operating as an experiment factory that tests assumptions and iterates based on evidence rather than tradition. What makes this team distinct is the rare combination of meaningful public impact, platform-scale technical challenges, and the freedom to shape how mission-critical systems are built and evolved.    About the Team  The Core Assessment Platform is a group of cross-functional teams responsible for building and evolving shared platform capabilities that support assessment-related systems used by institutions at scale. The work spans a range of assessment contexts, from routine evaluation to more complex, high-stakes environments, where accuracy, consistency, and trust are essential. Teams collaborate across engineering, product, design, data, and operations to build reliable capabilities that can be reused and adapted over time. What makes this group special is its focus on continuous learning, experimentation, and steady improvement, with success driven by thoughtful collaboration, iteration, and careful decision-making in environments where reliability and quality matter.     About the Opportunity  As a Senior Product Designer at the College Board, you are a highly skilled, thoughtful, and user-centered practitioner with a passion for designing products and experiences that meet real user needs. You will facilitate product discovery, shape design strategy, and guide solutions from concept through delivery.  You will work across one or more cross-functional teams and products, helping to connect the dots between research, design, engineering, and organization mission. You are confident working independently on features, while also seeking feedback and alignment with teammates and design leadership. You are an advocate for users and inclusive design. As a creative problem solver, you identify patterns across large systems and balance the big picture with hands-on execution—bringing clarity to complex challenges while staying focused on impact.  Your responsibilities will span early-stage discovery, end-to-end product design, usability testing, accessibility, and the creation of design artifacts that support high-quality implementation. You will also contribute to our design culture through mentorship, continuous learning, and collaborative design practices.  In this role, your responsibilities include:  Product Discovery and Design Strategy (30%)  - Design Thinking. Apply design thinking within complex education ecosystems to deeply understand user needs, reframe complex problems, and drive the creation of intuitive, scalable, and human-centered product solutions.  - Research. Constantly conduct and synthesize generative, formative, and evaluative research, using methods such as user interviews, usability testing, and surveys.  - Design with Users. Facilitate workshops and co-creation sessions to align teams and uncover opportunities.  - Data into Insights. Turn user, behavioral, and operational data into actionable insights.  - Prioritization. Influence prioritization and roadmapping efforts by connecting user needs with business goals and mission.   - User Advocacy. Champion human-centered and inclusive design principles.  - Storytelling. Use strategic storytelling to communicate vision, value, and direction.  Design Execution and Delivery (40%)  - Product Design. Work closely with product and engineering teams to translate concepts into detailed, production-ready designs, creating artifacts such as user flows, sitemaps, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI design.  - Design Systems. Apply and contribute to design systems, ensuring visual and functional consistency  - Plain Language. Write and test content using plain language for clarity and accessibility  - Testing. Conduct usability tests and A/B tests to validate design decisions.  - Accessibility. Perform accessibility audits to meet inclusive design standards.  - Responsive Design. Design for responsive, mobile-first experiences, and mobile apps.  - Artificial Intelligence. Experiment with generative AI tools to support ideation and prototyping.  - Tools. Use tools like Figma (preferred), Miro, and Dovetail to design, document, and test work.  Collaboration and Communication (20%)  - Collaborate. Rapidly iterate through daily partnership with product managers, engineers, researchers, leadership, and other stakeholders throughout the design and development process.  - Ceremonies. Participate in standups, sprint planning, design reviews and QA cycles.  - Specifications. Translate design decisions into clear specifications for implementation.  - Presenting. Present ideas, research findings, and designs with confidence and clarity.  - Design Operations. Contribute to organization-wide design efforts, including shared tools, systems, and templates.  Growth and Culture (10%)  - Teaching. Mentor junior designers or peers through pairing and feedback.  - Continuous Learning. Continuously invest in personal development and share emerging tools, trends, and provocations.  - Organizational Support. Support design education efforts such as lunch & learns, design critiques, and by contributing to internal documentation.  - Hiring. Participate in hiring and onboarding activities.  About You  You have:    - A portfolio of your work included in your application.   - A Bachelor’s degree in a related field (interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, computer science, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience.  - 3–7 years of experience in product or service design.  - A product design mindset and experience designing for complex, content-rich websites and applications, including strong skills in creating and communicating design artifacts, such as user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs.  - Proficiency in design thinking and human-centered methodologies, with the ability to reframe challenges and translate insights into actionable design direction.  - Strong skills in information design, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI design, with fluency in tools like Figma (preferred), Miro, and Dovetail.  - Experience applying generative and evaluative research methods, along with facilitation skills to lead workshops and co-creation sessions.  - A strong understanding of design systems, responsive design, and accessibility standards, including designing for web and native mobile platforms.  - Comfortable discussing technical constraints and collaborating with engineers to ensure design feasibility (experience with front-end technologies is a plus).  - A commitment to inclusive, ethical, and user-centered design, with the ability to write and test content using plain language principles.  - Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a user advocacy mindset and the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.  - Curiosity and adaptability—you’re self-motivated, continuously learning, and excited by emerging tools and trends, including generative AI.  - The ability to travel at a minimum of 3-5 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business (including but not limited to traveling to client/user sites to engage with stakeholders).  - Authorization to work in the United States.  About Our Process - Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. - While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise such as live coding, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks. What We Offer At College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market. A Thoughtful Approach to Compensation - The hiring range for this role is $95,000–$130,000. - Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board. - We aim to make our best offer upfront, rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data. - We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live. You’ll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it’s like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process. Check out our careers page for more. #LI-Remote #LI-EA1

Role Description As a Senior Product Designer within our Emerging Experience team, you’ll be at the forefront of Target’s evolving digital experience, shaping it for our guests and contributing to business growth. You’ll bring ideas to life through interactive prototypes and storytelling. You’ll contribute to UX sprints and future-visioning efforts by designing thoughtful, high-quality prototypes that help teams explore what’s possible and align around what matters. You’ll apply your creative and technical skills to test assumptions, express ideas with emotional clarity, and support the delivery of best-in-class experiences for our guests. You’ll work within a team environment that values experimentation, inclusivity, and care for both the work and the people doing it. Responsibilities - Participate in cross-functional design sprints to explore new guest experiences and technologies - Contribute to the development of future-state journeys and conceptual models through product design, prototyping, and visual storytelling - Effectively facilitate multiple cross-functional working teams and collaborate across multiple design and product teams - Create design deliverables representative of the design process phase – such as wireframes, user flows, UI design, and prototypes - Guide design process and mentor junior designers - Hold design work to a high standard of craft, including accessibility, user research, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design - Contribute to a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and human-centered practice Qualifications - 4+ years experience as a product designer with a strong portfolio showcasing successful product design work - Proficiency in product design and prototyping tools (i.e., in Figma, Principle, Framer, Cursor, Lovable) - Experience working in design sprints, early-stage concepting, or innovation labs - Strong strategic problem-solving, systems thinking, and collaboration skills - Ability to balance creative exploration with practical delivery - Proven ability to effectively use data and insights to set your direction and communicate your approach - Excellent communication and storytelling skills—able to bring others along through your work - Comfortable working in ambiguity, contributing to complex challenges, and collaborating across teams - Passionate about inclusive design and creating joyful, purposeful experiences at scale Requirements - This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs. - A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location, and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. - A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team, and tasks require for that day. - Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Benefits - Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more - 401(k) - Employee discount - Short-term disability - Long-term disability - Paid sick leave - Paid national holidays - Paid vacation Application Information Application deadline is: 04/09/2026 In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com .