Ethos Life
Principal Product Designer, Consumer
Job Summary
The role involves shaping user experience and developing innovative products at Ethos, including both new product creation and optimization of existing services. The candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams and engage with executive stakeholders to implement design strategies aligned with business goals. They should possess at least 7 years of product design experience, demonstrate a strong portfolio, and have a background in direct-to-consumer digital products within startup environments. The position offers an opportunity to influence product development, contribute to growth initiatives, and work in a collaborative, inclusive workplace.
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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 an experienced designer to help build the next generation of products at Ethos. As part of a small team, you’ll contribute to setting high standards and impact for the team. You’ll work across a variety of products and experiences, including both:
- “Zero-to-one” products, developing new products from concept to product-market fit, 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 build new business lines that will grow to contribute meaningfully to our overall revenue and run growth experiments at the top of the funnel for our core products.
We are open to designers at the Staff and Principal levels.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Help set the vision for our overall user experience
- Partner with teams to shape and implement design strategy across multiple business units
- Build new products and iterate on existing ones
- Balance smaller projects with high-impact initiatives that enhance the product
- Engage with executive stakeholders across engineering, product, marketing, and more to align on strategic goals
- Improve the product development process with cross functional partners
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and implement innovative design strategies
Qualifications & Skills:
- At least 7 years of Product Design experience
- At least 2 years at a venture-funded startup in the last 4 years
- The majority of your experience is in-house working on direct-to-consumer products
- You’ve worked in an adaptive and iterative 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
- Ability to come into our San Francisco office once a week if local to the Bay Area
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The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $126,000 - $224,000. 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.
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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