Sleeper is seeking a Product Design Apprentice-to-Hire to join their team in building the leading platform connecting friends over sports. The role involves designing user experiences across iOS, Android, Web, and Tablet platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to the design system with the potential for full-time conversion after a 12-week program.
What You'll Do
- Design user experiences across all of our platforms – iOS, Android, Web, Tablet
- Collaborate frequently with other designers in ideation sessions and receive feedback and mentorship from more senior designers
- Participate in design critiques to present your work to design team as well as business and engineering stakeholders, in order to obtain feedback
- Take ownership in aspects of design execution and create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes so engineers can ship your pixel-perfect designs
- Create design solutions that utilize design systems, and contribute to the development of our design system
- Be part of a small but mighty design team pushing the boundaries of product innovation to build the best product and further business goals
What We're Looking For
- A graduation date of Summer 2026 or earlier; or graduates with some entry-level experience
- A strong portfolio, deck, or sample work showcasing your passion and foundations in design
- Ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and other partners in a fast-paced environment
- Strong attention to detail with an understanding of the fundamentals of UX, interaction and visual design
- May not know everything about product design, but are passionate about learning and growing
Nice to Have
- Have a degree in one of the following majors or related fields: HCI, web/ media design, human-centered or UI/UX design
- Have experience with fantasy sports, daily fantasy, or sports betting—or just a serious passion for football or basketball
Team & Environment
- Part of a small but mighty team of designers
- Work within a tight-knit group of designers
- Receive mentorship and report to senior designers
- Agile group passionate about building high-quality, intuitive experiences
- Team that likes to have fun and sets time aside to do so
- Willing to pick up new sports or try computer games together for research
- Work hard and play hard – passionate and meticulous about craft
- Can see design everywhere and every day
- Do annual trips to design-workshop together
Benefits & Compensation
- Completing the 12-week program gives you priority for our open full-time roles
- Intentionally keeps our team small to maximize individual impact
- Believes in fair and equitable pay
- Equal employment opportunities provided without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status
- Offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities
- Reasonable accommodations available for qualified individuals with disabilities
- $20 USD to $32 USD per hour
- No overtime work allowed
- Salary upon potential full-time conversion will be adjusted and further negotiated
Work Mode
- Hybrid role requiring 2 days onsite
- Remote options available in: SF Bay Area, Seattle, California (non-SF), Washington (non-Seattle), Oregon
- Must be in PST hours, with willingness to relocate for full-time
The policy of Sleeper is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity. Sleeper is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities.
