Principal Product Designer

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, Soft Bank, 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 Built In'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 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  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

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.

• 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
• For Principal:
  Mentor and lead the work of other designers

• For Staff:
  At least 7 years of Product Design experience
• For Principal:
  At least 10 years of Product Design experience
• At least 2 years at a venture-funded, private startup required
• For Principal:
  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
• 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
• For Principal: A track record of raising the bar for the design practices you have been a member of

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The US national base salary range for this full-time position is…