Associate Creative Director, Ethos Life
Brand
$127-223k
Life insurance provider
Be an early applicant
Life insurance provider
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$127-223k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To protect the next million families.
Role
Who you are
- Most ACD’s don't dream about performance marketing. We're looking for the one who does. The one who gets genuinely excited by the question: why did that ad work?
- This isn't a role for someone who wants to ship beautiful work and move on. It's for the rare AD who has a strong aesthetic point of view, cares deeply about craft, and loves seeing their work tied directly to real results
- 7+ years in art and creative direction with a strong portfolio spanning performance creative and brand
- Exceptional visual design sensibility with experience refining or evolving brand identity systems, including color, type, photography, and illustration
- Experience designing for paid social at scale, you understand how visual decisions affect performance and why
- Familiarity with video creative, including end cards, bumpers, and motion, is a strong plus
- Experience developing or contributing to sonic branding is a plus
- AI-forward, you're already using AI tools in your design workflow and excited to bring that to a team
- Genuine obsession with design, advertising, and how visual craft moves people to act
- 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. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace
What the job involves
- There's a category that's been doing things the same way for over a hundred years. We're here to change that
- This role has one core mandate: raise the visual bar across everything we make
- You'll have significant ownership over the look and feel of Ethos across paid social, video, and all marketing touchpoints, and will play a key role in shaping how this brand shows up visually
- Refine and elevate the visual quality of everything we make: paid social static ads, video, website, one-pagers, and all marketing touchpoints
- Refine our visual system where you see fit, including color palette, typography, photography style, illustration direction, end cards, and bumpers
- Develop sonic branding that translates consistently across TV, radio, and digital
- Collaborate closely with the video creative team to ensure visual consistency and quality across all formats
- Stay deeply in tune with what's working and what isn't across our paid social creative, using performance data to inform visual decisions
- Champion AI adoption to accelerate concepting, design production, and creative iteration
- Bring curiosity and ambition to explore new visual territories and push the brand beyond where it's been
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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