Principal Product Designer, Ethos Life
$165-292k
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Life insurance provider
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Life insurance provider
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$165-292k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To protect the next million families.
Role
Who you are
- At least 10 years of Product Design experience
- At least 2 years at a venture-funded, private startup required
- At least 2 years in a role where you are influencing the work of others either through direct management or indirect leadership
- Demonstrable impact raising the bar for design practices and output of organizations you have been a member of
- The majority of your experience is in-house working on direct-to-consumer products
- You’ve worked in a high-velocity, high-ambiguity, experiment-driven environment - ideally in a Growth Product/Design environment
- You’ve worked on high consideration consumer flows where storytelling and design craft are meaningful levers for product performance
- You can clearly articulate the reasoning behind your design decisions. Your work demonstrates intentionality and rigorous thinking
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates your ability to produce 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 improving flows and launching 0-1 products
- Demonstrated ability to detect process and misalignment issues quickly and work to alleviate them
- Must be located in Eastern Time Zone
- 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
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a seasoned designer with leadership experience to help build the next generation of products at Ethos
- This is a player coach role focused on craft at scale
- You’ll own some projects but also direct the work of other designers
- As part of a team, you’ll help set the bar for quality and impact for the team, and help the team achieve it
- You will work across a variety of products and experiences that span our core businesses and expand into new businesses
- Your influence across the team is not limited to ‘mentorship,’ you will be in a position to actively uplevel the output through your feedback, standards and systems that you design and implement
- Lead design strategy across multiple business units including all aspects of design craft
- Help set the vision for our overall user experience
- Direct and guide the work of other designers
- Build new products and iterate on existing ones
- Manage executive stakeholders across engineering, product, marketing, and more
- Drive improvements to the product development process with cross functional partners
Our take
Ethos was founded to increase the transparency of life insurance, making it accessible and affordable to all. The company wants to add openness to the process; losing a loved one is hard enough before one even considers financial implications, particularly with the loss of a primary earner.
Ethos uses predictive technology to rapidly quote life insurance rates and verify an applicant’s medical information. This expedited process allows most users to secure life cover on the same day they apply, a process which normally takes a number of weeks. The company works with some of the biggest providers in the industry, including Legal & General America, AAA Life and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.
Ethos has been one of the more heavily publicized of the recent wave of insurtech companies, with investors such as Google as well as celebrities Will Smith and Jay Z, taking its valuation to over $2B and putting it in a great spot for future growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
72% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES D
May 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $406.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive benefits packages: Awesome medical dental, vision and as applicable insurance coverage and retirement plans (in the US we offer a 401(k) plan).
- Company Equity: We want you to feel and act like an owner.
- Rest, relax & recharge: We encourage our employees to take time off, in addition to our fully paid global company holiday schedule. When you need time away from work, we have paid and flex time options based on your role and location, and additional paid leave programs.
- Generous leave programs: As well as offering a wide array of leave programs, new parents can take leave with 100% wage replacement. Our healthcare plans offer coverage on family planning and fertility.
Company HQ
Berkley Square - Headway, Austin, TX
Leadership
Peter Colis
(Co-Founder & CEO)After an MBA at Stanford, Peter co-founded Ovid Corp in 2014, where he worked as CEO for 4 years before co-founding Ethos in 2016. He has worked as CEO since, alongside serving as a Sequoia Capital Scout.
Lingke Wang
(Co-Founder)After working as an Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley Lingke gained an MBA from Stanford. He then co-founded Ovid Corp. an insurance company before Ethos.
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