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title: 'Senior Product Designer at Sweatpals'
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# Senior Product Designer at Sweatpals

- **Company:** Sweatpals
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-01-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sweatpals/a140e667-d948-4969-9e11-cbd6abe53a8a

## Job description

## About SweatPals

Sweatpals is the community-first fitness platform turning workouts into social experiences. Backed by a16z speedrun, Patron, Kevin Hart, Pear VC, and founders of Instacart and Dreamworks Animations, we connect hundreds of thousands of “pals,” hosts, and gyms through events, memberships, and social features. We’re still scrappy at heart, but scaling fast. We believe working out should be joyful, social, and inclusive - not just a solo grind. From run clubs and beach pilates to pickleball leagues and cold plunge socials, Sweatpals turns everyday workouts into meaningful social experiences. Sweatpals also gives local leaders the tools to grow their fitness communities from side hustles to full-time, even million-dollar businesses. Hosts use our platform to run their business -- from ticketing and memberships to marketing and community engagement tools.

## The Role

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our team at Sweatpals and focus on our Mobile App and SaaS platform. The Product Design team is crucial in our mission to enhance user acquisition, engagement, and retention. Our products support the growth of countless fitness communities and drive the adoption of Sweatpals among users across the globe. As a Senior-Level Product Designer, you will work closely with the design team, engineers, marketing and customer success team to tackle complex design challenges. You’ll create intuitive, data-informed experiences that engage users, streamline community building, and support our growth goals. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of fitness communities worldwide.

You Will Be a Great Fit If You Have:

- 5+ years of Product Design experience, ideally with a track record of taking consumer products from zero to one and scaling them.
- Extensive experience designing for web and native mobile apps, particularly in consumer-facing products. Experience with community or social platforms is a big plus.
- A startup mindset: You are energized by a fast-paced environment, comfortable wearing multiple hats, and committed to maintaining the highest standards of design excellence.
- A deep understanding of the data-driven design process, with experience in cohort analysis, Amplitude, Google Analutand other tracking tools to inform design decisions is a plus.
- Top-notch design craft and ability to ideate rapidly and produce high-quality design concepts.
- Exceptional communication skills to articulate your design decisions, receive feedback, and collaborate effectively across teams.
- A passion for user-centric design and a knack for balancing business impact with user needs.
- A growth mindset and comfort with experimentation, learning from both successes and failures.
- A collaborative, humble approach -- you thrive in feedback-rich environments and enjoy helping others improve.

Why Work at Sweatpals?

- Impact: Have a significant impact on a fast-growing company in the fitness and wellness space. Work alongside a high-performing, passionate team.
- Flexibility: We value a balance between performance and freedom. We’re a remote enabled team with a culture that values work-life harmony.
- Innovation: Take on challenging problems that push the boundaries of user engagement and growth in the fitness industry. Shape the way fitness enthusiasts connect and thrive.
- Compensation: Competitive salary and stock options based on your experience, skills, and market trends.

## Our Values

- Celebrate Diversity: Different perspectives make us better.
- Be a Leader: Initiative is a mindset, not a title.
- Roll Up Our Sleeves: No job is too small when building something big.
- Embrace the Adventure: We stay curious and see challenges as opportunities.

How to Apply Please include a portfolio link with examples of product design. Bonus points for context on your role, process, and results. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

## About Sweatpals

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sweatpals is a community-driven fitness and wellness platform that enables instructors, gyms, and event organizers to manage bookings, payments, and growth while helping participants discover local movement experiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Salar Shahini (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Wellness and Fitness Services
- Target customers: B2B (fitness instructors, yoga teachers, run club captains, gym and studio owners, retreat organizers) and B2C (participants seeking fitness, wellness, and mindfulness events).
- Mission: To build a platform where people connect, sweat, and belong — enabling “the daylife movement” where wellness becomes a social currency.

## Products & Services
- **Sweatpals Platform**: A SaaS marketplace for fitness communities. Offers tools for scheduling sessions, managing payments, handling bookings, waivers, and event monetization (for clubs, retreats, studios/gyms). Participants can discover and book experiences across yoga, runs, pilates, cold plunges, pickleball, and more.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $16.1M (latest $12M seed round in 2025 led by Patron, a16z speedrun, and HartBeat Ventures)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andrew Chen (General Partner a16z), Kevin Hart (HartBeat Ventures), Max Mullen (Co-Founder Instacart), Jeffrey Katzenberg (Founder DreamWorks Animation), Brian Cho (Patron), and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 66.7% YoY to 30 employees; operates in 10 countries; monthly website visits ~228k (+80% yearly); active job postings (Senior ML Scientist, Technical Implementation Manager, Senior Product Designer).

## Competitive Advantages
- Low-cost discovery model: 3x lower commission than ClassPass, and zero fees on a host’s own members.
- Community-first approach: Integrated tools for building loyalty and recurring participation, not just one-off bookings.
- Strong backing from iconic tech, media, and fitness industry figures, providing credibility and network effects.

## Strategic Focus
- National expansion (especially in the U.S. market) and platform development to launch new features for monetization and community engagement.
- Investing in AI (hiring a Senior ML Scientist) to personalise discovery and optimize host/participant matching.
- Growing the “daylife movement” by converting participants into hosts, creating a self-reinforcing ecosystem.

## Why Work Here
- Culture highlights: Fast-growing startup (30 people, 66.7% YoY headcount growth) with a mission-driven focus on fitness and community. Values are described around “movement”, “belonging”, and turning passion into profit.
- Remote/hybrid/office policy: Works across 10 countries with a U.S. hub in Austin, TX. Roles likely offer flexibility; job postings do not explicitly state remote/hybrid but the distributed team suggests remote-friendly.
- Notable perks: Work alongside a team with alumni from top companies (Airbnb, Instacart, Amazon Web Services). High ownership and impact in a seed-stage company backed by world-class investors.

## Sources
1. [sweatpals.com](https://sweatpals.com)
2. [linkedin.com/company/sweatpals](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sweatpals)
3. [cbinsights.com/company/sweatpals](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/sweatpals)
4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/sweatpals/__MrC1NWnyH-rh3wcHw8LQ5RHjPb-FW13OvNa8uJqnA38)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sweatpals](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sweatpals)

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