Technical Program Manager, Ethos Life
Life insurance provider
Open for applications
Life insurance provider
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To protect the next million families.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 5+ years knowledge and work as an active scrum master
- Experience working in or with software development and product management teams
- Experience developing, managing, and coaching teams
What the job involves
- Technical Program Managers operate within the Engineering organization and have technical knowledge that enables them to influence and drive cross-team projects and roadmaps
- This person will be highly organized, productive, poised, and able to thrive in high-pressure, time-sensitive scenarios
- Partner closely with engineering and product leads to evolve Ethos' product strategy and development
- Develop and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery
- Provide hands-on program management during analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases
- Drive internal process improvements across teams and functions, to ensure high performance bars are met across the board
- Provide day-to-day coordination for projects and tasks
- Perform the duties of a scrum master using agile methodologies and scrum practices
- Assist teams with having a detailed understanding of agile and scrum framework
- Participate and facilitate roadmapping, sprint planning sessions, retrospectives, demos, and scrum of scrums
- Help teams understand and balance dependencies between performance, efficiency, and product functionality
- Map dependencies and relationships between projects and teams, coordinating efforts across organizations and verticals
- Communicate status and big picture to the stakeholders and leadership
- Work independently with minimal supervision
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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