Staff Product Designer

2 Weeks ago • 5-7 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Product Designer at Ethos, you will play a crucial role in shaping the next generation of products. You will collaborate with a small team, setting high standards for quality and impact. Your responsibilities will include leading design strategy, defining the overall user experience vision, building new products and improving existing ones, managing stakeholders, and improving the product development process. You will be creating products that create real value for real people. This role involves a mix of large-scale initiatives and smaller projects. You will experiment, invent, and learn, all while advocating for the customers.
Must have:
  • 5+ years (Senior) or 7+ years (Principal) of Product Design experience
  • 2+ years at a venture-funded startup in the last 4 years
  • Experience in-house working on direct-to-consumer products
  • Experience in a high-velocity, experiment-driven environment
  • Ability to clearly articulate design decisions
  • Demonstrated ability to measure the impact of your work
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality work
  • Experience leading projects end-to-end

Job Details

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

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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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.

To learn more about what information we collect and how it may be used, please refer to our California Candidate Privacy Notice.

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Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get term life insurance. Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones. Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally 15-week process into a modern digital experience for our users. Ethos has raised over $400 million from Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Accel, and Google Ventures (GV). We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to join us in our mission to protect the next million families!
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