Product / UX/UI Designer (Volunteer)

Join our volunteer-led nonprofit and help us build healthier social media.

Product / UX/UI Designer (Volunteer)

Volunteer role | A few hours per week | 2 months initial commitment | Fully remote

Help build social media that sparks the best in people.

Sparkable is a nonprofit social media platform designed to bridge divides. We’re an international team of volunteers working to strengthen democracy and social cohesion by reimagining social media as a force for good. 🌍

We’re legally based in 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland, but our team is distributed around the world and works fully remotely.

Your role

Help shape a joyful social platform people intuitively understand and trust.

Depending on your strengths, you might:

  • Design new interaction patterns (for example, “sparks” instead of likes):
Prosocial reactions: a new way to surface high-quality content
Sparkable is pioneering a new way to evaluate the prosocial effects of a post.
  • Turn complex ideas into simple, intuitive experiences
  • Create clean, thoughtful interfaces for core features
  • Shape the look and feel of a healthier social platform
  • Build out our design system

We’re looking for someone who:

  • Thinks about how design influences behavior
  • Has strong UX and/or visual design skills
  • Cares about online discourse and digital wellbeing
  • Enjoys working in early-stage, ambiguous environments

This is a volunteer role with high ownership and real impact.

Apply now!

If you care about fixing social media and strengthening democracy, we’d love to hear from you.

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