Head of Product Design, Ethos Life
Consumer
$147-261k
Life insurance provider
Open for applications
Life insurance provider
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$147-261k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To protect the next million families.
Role
Who you are
- You should be a pioneer who is not afraid to experiment, invent, and occasionally fail
- You should be energized by building from the ground up, designing moments and experiences that drive business value and make customers smile
- 10+ years of UX design experience , with 5+ years experience leading or managing a design team
- 4+ years of direct-to-consumer design experience, driving conversion rate gains in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated mastery of beautiful and functional visual and interaction design, typography, and hierarchy. You are an exceptional individual contributor in addition to design leader
- Ability to excel at at high-level concepts, and show meticulous attention to detail
- Experience partnering with product and engineering peers to drive strategy, vision, and execution
- Experience attracting and hiring design talent
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders such as Brand to balance short- and long- term outcomes
- A portfolio of relevant design work, executed either by yourself or a team that you led, that conveys an ability to ship successful products that people love
- Excellent communication (verbal, written, visual); openness to collaboration, hearing different perspectives from team members, and driving towards the best outcome for customers and the business
What the job involves
- Ethos is looking for a Head of Product Design to help build the world’s best, and most profitable, direct-to-consumer life insurance purchase experience
- At Ethos, you will not only work with talented team-mates to build delightful experiences, but also raise the bar for UX design, company wide
- Hold your team accountable for exceptionally high quality design work that drives outcomes for customers and the business. We expect most design critique to come from this candidate
- For certain projects, play the role of an individual contributor. Partner with peers in Product, Copy, and Engineering to build stellar products
- Lead UX Design hiring, and build a world-class design team to help Ethos fulfill our mission
- Managing a team of designers by mentoring and creating growth opportunities for those on your team
- Develop UX guiding principles to help agile teams operate quickly and autonomously, but maintain high design standards and consistency from ad to post-purchase
- Define and optimize our process of going from consumer problem to MVP design, which includes initial concept design, user research, usability testing, and refinement. Coach IC designers to follow best practices
- Refine our UX design career ladder to set clear expectations, hold team members accountable for high performance, and facilitate career growth
Our take
Ethos was founded to increase the transparency of life insurance, making it accessible and affordable to all. The company want 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 publicised 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 $2 billion. However, the sector is being hit particularly hard by macroeconomic uncertainty and Ethos conducted several rounds of layoffs through 2022 and early 2023. Now focused on its core product and revenue growth, it is poised to extend its market leading position.
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 health benefits
- Awesome medical, dental, and vision plans that start when you start
- Restricted Stock Units
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- New parents can take leave with 100% wage replacement
- Team training, volunteering opportunities, additional resources, and some amazing Employee Resource Groups: Black at Ethos, Parents, Pride & Shethos
- 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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