Staff / Principal Product Designer

About the Role

We’re looking for a seasoned designer to help build the next generation of products at Ethos. As part of a small team, you’ll help set the bar for quality and impact for the team. You might work on products like our new Will & Trust product or our core term life insurance product. 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.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead design strategy across multiple business units
• Help set the vision for our overall user experience
• Build new products and iterate on existing ones
• Balance smaller projects with big bets that level up the overall product
• Manage executive stakeholders across engineering, product, marketing, and more
• Drive improvements to the product development process with cross-functional partners

Qualifications & Skills:

• At least 5 years (Senior) or 7 years (Principal) of Product Design experience
• At least 2 years at a venture-funded startup in the last 4 years required
• The majority of your experience is in-house working on direct-to-consumer products
• You’ve worked in a high-velocity, experiment-driven environment
• An understanding of when to use the design process and when to shortcut it. Your process has predictably excellent output
• You can clearly articulate the reasoning behind your design decisions. Your work demonstrates intentionality and rigorous thinking
• Demonstrated ability to measure the impact of your work and its impact on the business
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates your ability to move quickly while producing high-quality work, including interaction details, visual polish, and content design
• Experience leading projects end-to-end, including discovery, problem definition, ideation, and validation, all the way through engineering implementation and measurement

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