# Sara Menefee

> Product Design at Middesk

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/saramenefee

## Work Experience
### Product Design Manager @ Middesk
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Middesk is an API-driven business-identity platform that enables compliance teams to verify, onboard, and monitor businesses by streamlining KYB and compliance workflows.

Product design hire. Series B.

### Product Designer, Fraud & Risk (IC5, Staff) @ Middesk
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Staff Product Designer & Product Manager (Fractional), AI @ Sprig
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Sprig is a UX research platform that captures in-app feedback through surveys, heatmaps, and session replays and uses AI insights to surface friction and drive faster, smarter product decisions.

Product design hire. Series B.

Reason for departure: New opportunity at Middesk

### Product Design Consultant @ Sprig
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, CA
Contract: Deliver Rank Order survey feature.

Contract-to-hire agreement with Sprig.

### Technical Product Manager & Product Designer (Fractional), Data Platform @ Meroxa
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Meroxa is a managed platform that enables teams to leverage application development best practices to process and stream data in real-time. 

First product design hire. Series A.

Reason for departure: New opportunity at Sprig

### Head of Design (Founding) @ Meroxa
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Principal Product Designer (Founding) @ Sora
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Sora is a platform that centralises company and employee data to automate intelligent employee-focused workflows.

First product design hire. Pre-seed.

Acquired by ADP in August 2023.

Reason for departure: Position impacted by pandemic-era economic constraints

### Senior Product Designer @ Checkr, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States
Checkr is an API-driven background check and identity platform aimed at streamlining the hiring process for the world's largest companies. 

Second product design hire. Series B.

Reason for departure: New opportunity at Sora

### Product Designer @ Change.org
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States
Change.org is a platform that enables grassroots activism and mobilisation support through petitioning for local and global social movements and causes.

Reason for departure: New opportunity at Checkr

### Designer Bridge 5 Fellow @ Designer Fund
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California, United States
Designer Bridge is a professional development program that helps experienced designers focus on and develop design disciplines such as Product Design, Product & Communication Design, and Design Management. 

Recruited by Designer Fund / Sponsored by Change.org

### Product Designer @ Zendesk
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California, United States
Zendesk is a customer engagement platform that helps businesses manage customer communications, relationships, and support issues.

Third product design hire. Series D.

IPO in 2014 at $1.7 billion valuation.

Reason for departure: New opportunity at Change.org

### Customer Advocate (L1, Technical) @ Zendesk
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, California, United States


## Education
### Utah Valley University

### Hangul Proficiency in Korean Language and Literature
King Sejong Institute


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/saramenefee

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Last updated: 2026-04-13