StaffPrincipal Product Designer, Partnerships

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers agents and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought sold and underwritten.

About the role

Were looking for a seasoned designer to help build the next generation of products at Ethos. As part of a team youll help set the bar for quality and impact for the team. Youll 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 where you drive meaningful gains to our bottom line.

Youll work on our Partnerships team where youll help lead the strategy and execution to grow our business. Youll explore and launch improvements to established agent journeys and explore wholly new business lines that will grow to contribute meaningfully to our overall revenue.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead design strategy across multiple product 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
• If Principal mentor and lead the work of other designers
• Actively participate and work to transition towards an AI-augmented product building model

Qualifications and Skills:

• At least 7 years of Product Design experience (10 years for Principal)
• At least 2 years at a venture-funded private startup required
• For Principal level at least 2 years in a role where you are influencing the work of others either through direct management or indirect leadership.
• The majority of your experience is in-house working on direct-to-consumer products
• Youve 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 storytelling visual polish and content design
• A track record of raising the bar for the design practices you have been a member of
• Experience leading projects end-to-end including discovery problem definition ideation and validation all the way through engineering implementation and measurement
• Experience in launching 0-1 products not just iterating on something that already exists

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Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt 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.

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