About the Role
Title: Principal Product Designer
Location: Remote US
Job Description:
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!
About the Role
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
- 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