Finance and Strategy Senior Manager / Director, Ethos Life
$108-191k
Salary dependent on location + Applicable bonus and equity
Life insurance provider
Be an early applicant
Life insurance provider
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$108-191k
Salary dependent on location + Applicable bonus and equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To protect the next million families.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of relevant work experience, including:
- 2+ years of investment banking, consulting, and/or private equity / growth equity
- 2+ years of operational experience at a high-growth technology company
- Best-in-class excel skills and extensive experience developing insightful financial models and quantitative analyses, paired with strong critical thinking and sound business judgment
- Ability to flex between high-level strategic thinking and deep analytical problem solving
- Motivated self-starter with a track record of success and a proven ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks while hitting deadlines. Desire to own and drive projects from Day 1
- Excellent communication skills and effective cross-functional collaborator
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Deep understanding of valuation methods and strong working knowledge of GAAP
- Stellar academic record with a degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Finance, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, etc.)
Desirable
- SQL knowledge
- Ability to use statistical analysis tools
What the job involves
- Ethos is looking for an ambitious self-starter to join our Finance & Strategy Team
- As part of this team you will play a major role in executing high priority initiatives for our Direct to Consumer business, performing market research to help inform the company’s strategy & product roadmap, and defining the company’s financial plan
- You will use a combination of analytical, operational, and technical skills to evaluate key business problems (scale, efficiency, and quality) while considering multiple different stakeholders
- This role will have high visibility across the executive team and will require you to solve the most complex, interesting challenges of a rapidly-scaling startup
- Drive our efforts to better serve new customer segments, launch new insurance products, and/or partnerships offerings
- Apply business judgment and financial insights to drive decision making related to unit economics, customer acquisition, operations, core business expansion, and new opportunities
- Improve the speed and efficiency of our growth by collaborating closely with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Operations teams
- Apply a data-driven analytical approach to influence decision making and support company leadership in evaluating strategic initiatives
- Develop and monitor critical financial performance metrics, and communicate actionable insights to relevant stakeholders
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.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Serve our Families
- Intellectual Rigor
- Bias for Impact
- Speak Your Mind
Company HQ
Berkley Square - Headway, Austin, TX
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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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Ethos Life
- At Ethos, accessibility is core to our mission of protecting the next million families. Increasing access means diversity and inclusion are essential to the success of both our customers and our employees. At Ethos, we value every customer and each employee's unique voice, while ensuring they have an equal opportunity to be heard.
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