Design Lead, Modern Life
4+ days a week in office (SoHo, NYC)
Tech-enabled insurance brokerage
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Tech-enabled insurance brokerage
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
4+ days a week in office (SoHo, NYC)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help everyone protect what matters most through advanced technology and tailored advice.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience in digital product design, ideally including time on an in-house team
- A portfolio showing your ability to define, execute and iterate impactful design solutions
- Curiosity and experimentation mindset; actively exploring how new tools can help your work
- Driven by tenacious problem-solving, deliver viable, desirable, feasible solutions
- Leadership experience or clear leadership aptitude; comfortable directing the work of other designers (including freelancers) and giving them what they need to be productive
- Systems thinker comfortable applying a defined system and seizing opportunities to evolve it
- Experience working with a refined brand; able to execute with visual finesse, uphold guidelines and apply good taste to design solutions
- Highly collaborative work style with stakeholders and peers
- Driven to build life insurance domain expertise through self-study, user research, pairing with internal subject matter experts
Desirable
- You have experience and interest in working with complex B2B workflows and systems
- You are familiar with Service Design methods; experience working cross-channel
- You have formally managed or mentored other designers, or led freelance/agency partners
What the job involves
- This is a senior individual contributor role with leadership scope. Depending on the person, the role can grow into a design leader over time or work in support of design leadership as we scale the team
- Drive design and user experience across Modern Life’s product and brand presence
- Define, launch and iterate solutions that are clear, usable, and elegant
- Translate complexity into clarity in everything you touch, from research to pixels
- Push the bleeding edge of your approach and tools as AI capabilities continue to evolve
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional team from early concept through execution
- Direct and get the most out of work from other designers where needed, including external design freelancers — scoping, briefing, reviewing, and shipping
- Enable our customers—life insurance advisors—to serve their clients more easily by delivering user experiences which improve the process of buying and selling insurance
- Influence product and company direction by driving design decisions that align user needs with business priorities, working closely with a tight-knit, fast-moving cross-functional team
- Raise the quality bar through thoughtful critique, high standards, and attention to detail across product, brand, and marketing touchpoints
- Contribute to building a culture of customer-centricism across the organization which results in consistently high customer satisfaction rates
- Continue to develop the design practice and approach in a scalable way
Our take
Life insurance is deeply human in purpose, yet historically slow and complex in practice. It's a massive US market still driven by advisors, but burdened by manual processes and fragmented systems. As expectations shift toward speed and better client experiences, the industry is being pushed to evolve, not by removing advisors, but by finally modernizing the tools they rely on.
So, Modern Life was built for this shift. As an AI-powered life insurance brokerage, it embeds intelligence across the advisor-client journey, from underwiting and quoting to recommendations and poicy delivery. By analyzing medical and financial data quickly and bringing insurance, tax, and planning considerations into one platform, it reduces friction and complexity, giving advisors more time to focus on their client relationships.
The company's $2OM Series A, bringing total funding to $35M, reflects strong confidence from both investors and major insurers. And with regulatory foundations in place and plans to expand partnerships and product capabilities, the company is very well positioned to scale further.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2025
$20m
SERIES A
Aug 2022
$15m
SEED
Total funding: $35m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO: Whether it’s surfing, family trips, or your garden that’s calling – life is for living, so we give you more time for it
- Hybrid office culture: You get the best of a modern office environment, plus the flexibility of working from home when you want to
- Team events: Get to know the crew at team meals, events, happy hours, offsites, and group celebrations.
- Great benefits: Enjoy quality health insurance and benefits including, of course, life insurance – and we’ve got just the people to help you with that.
Company HQ
Nolita, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Konialian
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at US Department state as Foreign Affairs Officer. Later joined McKinsey as Engagement Manager. Also, worked at CoverWallet, first as Director of Product and then as VP and General Manager.
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