Principal Product Analyst, Ethos Life
$166-260k
Offers bonus and equity
Life insurance provider
Open for applications
Life insurance provider
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$166-260k
Offers bonus and equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To protect the next million families.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product analytics experience in consumer-facing, high-growth environments
- You don't wait for a spec. You see the gap, frame the question, build the answer, and land the insight with the right audience. You move at 5x the speed of a traditional analyst — not by cutting corners, but by leveraging every tool available. When you solve a problem, you solve it for the team
- You've changed what gets built, not just reported on what shipped
- Deep expertise in experiment design, causal inference, and power analysis — combined with daily use of AI tools and a clear-eyed understanding of where they accelerate, where they hallucinate, and where human judgment is non-negotiable
- You can make an executive care about a p-value and a data engineer care about a business metric. You write clearly, present with conviction, and know when a Slack message beats a slide deck
- Comfortable across the modern analytics stack (Snowflake, dbt, Amplitude, Hex, Mode). Strong SQL foundations — not because you'll write every query by hand, but because you need to reason through data logic, validate AI-generated output, and debug when something's off
- 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
What the job involves
- This is a senior and highly influential role built around judgment, strategic impact, and deep analytical craft. It starts with genuine understanding of our customers, our business, and the dynamics that drive growth
- That understanding is your core asset. You use it to identify the highest-leverage questions, spot opportunities the business hasn't seen yet, and show up in product and leadership conversations with clear recommendations that change what gets built
- The AI infrastructure we've built changes what's possible for someone in this role. Mechanical analysis moves faster than ever
- That frees you to operate at a higher level — training our systems on what good looks like, reviewing and sharpening their output, and bringing the judgment no model can replicate. We're further along than most, but there's no finished playbook for this yet. You'd be shaping it
- You go deep in analytics, experimentation, and growth. AI gives you the reach
- You'll partner directly with product, design, engineering, and executive leadership to shape strategy across multiple high-impact product lines
- We're moving fast, the foundations are real, and there's room to have massive impact from day one. If you want to be one of the people who shapes how this gets done, this is the role
- Insight that drives product decisions. You identify the highest-leverage questions, build the frameworks to answer them, and bring clear recommendations to product and leadership. PMs and executives make different decisions because you're in the room
- Deep customer and business understanding. You build a rich model of how customers behave, what drives conversion and retention, and where growth opportunities live. That model shapes everything from long-term roadmap bets to the micro-decisions made in weekly product reviews
- Experimentation at portfolio scale. Own experiment strategy across your product areas — design, guardrails, interpretation, and the cross-experiment patterns that reveal the bigger picture no single test shows
- AI system quality and judgment. Our agents pull data, read configs, and produce draft analyses. You own the quality of that output — validating it, sharpening it, and training the system over time. Human judgment over AI judgment. Always
- Connecting dots no one else sees. You operate across product areas, experiments, and data sources — surfacing patterns, opportunity-sizing insights, and strategic bets that siloed analysis misses. You shift how leadership thinks about growth
- Raising the bar for the entire team. You set the standard for how AI and analytical rigor work together. When you find a better way to validate an experiment, pressure-test a metric, or get signal from AI faster — you make it the team's new baseline
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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