Design Lead, Modern Life

• 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

• 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