Principal Product Designer @ Ethos Life

About Ethos

Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families. Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones.

We leverage deep technology and data science to streamline the life insurance process, making it more accessible and convenient. Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes! We’ve issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers, ushering the industry into the modern age. Our full-stack technology platform is the backbone of family financial health.

We make getting life insurance easier, faster and better for everyone.

Our investors include General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, SoftBank, and the investment vehicles of Jay-Z, Kevin Durant, Robert Downey Jr and others. This year, we were named on CB Insights’ Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIn’s Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco. We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families!

Design at Ethos

Designers at Ethos play an instrumental role in shaping every aspect of the product. We work across the organization to develop novel solutions to large, interesting challenges, and build world class products that create real value for real people. You will experiment, invent, and occasionally fail but most importantly, you will learn and advocate tirelessly for the customers you are creating products for.

About the Role

We’re looking for a seasoned designer to help take our consumer experience to the next level. As part of a small team, you’ll help set the bar for quality and impact for the team. You’ll work across a variety of products and experiences, including both “zero-to-one” experiences where you operate in a fast-moving “startup within a startup” and optimizing our core businesses.

You’ll work on our “Growth & New Business” team, where you’ll help lead the strategy and execution to grow our business. You’ll run experiments at the top of the funnel for our core products and help build new business lines that will grow to contribute meaningfully to our overall revenue.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Lead design strategy across multiple business units
Manage executive stakeholders across engineering, product, marketing, and more
Identify opportunity areas to make large bets and align the organization to bring the desired impact into reality
Help set the vision for our overall user experience
Define and build new products and iterate on existing ones
Drive improvements to the product development process with cross functional partners

Qualifications and Skills:

7+ years of in-house product design experience for a direct to consumer product
An understanding of when to use the design process and when to shortcut it
Ability to move quickly while producing high quality designs
A strong portfolio that demonstrates your impact and leadership
Demonstrated ability to drive business impact
Ability to reduce complex problems down to flexible and intuitive patterns
Extensive experience leading projects and process spanning insights, ideation and validation through to design implementation
The ability to challenge the assumptions of oneself as well of those around you
Preferred experience in complex industries like FinTech, HealthTech, or InsureTech

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The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 - $217,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include applicable bonus, equity, or benefits.

You can find further details of our US benefits at https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.

We are an equal opportunity employer who values diversity and inclusion and look for applicants who understand, embrace and thrive in a multicultural world. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.

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