Principal Designer

SageSure • Mountain View, CA

107d

About The Position

If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we’re hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a Principal Designer supporting our Policyholder Experience team. We're looking for a passionate, experienced designer who thrives at the intersection of strategy and craft. If you have a strong background in insurance, insurtech, fintech, or complex business and consumer workflows, and love leading discovery, UX research, and high-impact design—you’ll feel right at home here. In this role, you’ll work hand-in-hand with product teams to shape our flagship software, fuel the growth of a multi-billion-dollar book of business, and drive end-to-end experiences that make a real difference for our users. You’ll help lead design thinking, research, and execution—owning outcomes, not just deliverables. This is your opportunity to help set the bar for what best-in-class looks like in our industry.

Requirements

• Significant experience in a leading design role.
• Facility in working with data heavy but whitespace respecting patterns, and experience discovering, designing, and advocating for meaningful digital customer experiences that meet strategic customer and business needs.
• Fluency in creating workflows, interactive prototypes, and finished designs, with documentation that clearly communicates the design and functionality of new features.
• Experience measuring, reporting on, and advancing the value of new and existing features.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain evidence-based design decisions for review and implementation by teammates.
• Strong attention to detail, including language, patterns, visual design flaws, etc.
• A portfolio that tells a story of problem solving with quality visual designs showcasing your eye for detail; clear and thoughtful writing; thoughtful discovery practices; etc.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in insurance / insurtech or fintech and rich B-to-B-to-C software applications.
• Work with stellar shopping experiences (with recommendations, preferences, etc.).
• A proven track record advocating for and growing design mindsets and team culture within organizations.
• Proficiency working with a fully remote team.

Responsibilities

• Work with company leaders and your team in building a state-of-the-art B-to-B-to-C portal that sets modern expectations for clarity, coherence, and usability along with business impact.
• Create and execute designs, both from a blank slate and within an existing system, shaping how design functions inside the company and in our design team.
• Lead discovery, user research, and synthesis, and use metrics to drive success.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, engineers, and other designers and lead design direction and efficient implementation.
• Facilitate conversations on improving product features and our robust design system by articulating UX/UI tradeoffs while defining final designs.
• Communicate the rationale behind the intentions, decisions, and goals of proposed design solutions while incorporating constructive feedback through design iterations.

Benefits

• Generous health benefits and perks, including tuition reimbursement.
• Wellness allowance.
• Paid volunteer time off.
• A matching 401K plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior