Staff/Principal Product Designer

Ethos Life • International Falls, MN

22h • Remote

About The Position

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.
Design at Ethos plays 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 make and impact and grow in your craft.
We’re looking for a seasoned designer to help build the next generation of products at Ethos. As part of a team, you’ll help set the bar for quality and impact for the team. You’ll 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.
You’ll work on our “Consumer” team, where you’ll help lead the strategy and execution to grow our business. You’ll explore and launch improvements to established funnels and explore wholly new business lines that will grow to contribute meaningfully to our overall revenue.

Requirements

• 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
• 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, 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

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
• If Principal, mentor and lead the work of other designers
• Actively participate and work to transition towards an AI-augmented product building model

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees