Key skills
Product DesignStartup ExperienceUser Experience StrategyEnd-to-End Project LeadershipDesign Process UnderstandingImpact MeasurementPortfolioMentoring DesignersCollaboration with StakeholdersHigh-Quality WorkLeadershipMentoring
About this role
Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance. The role involves leading design strategy across multiple business units, building new products, and optimizing existing ones while mentoring other designers.
Responsibilities:
- Lead design strategy across multiple business units
- Help set the vision for our overall user experience
- Build new products and iterate on existing ones
- Balance smaller projects with big bets that level up the overall product
- Manage executive stakeholders across engineering, product, marketing, and more
- Drive improvements to the product development process with cross functional partners
- For Principal: Mentor and lead the work of other designers
Requirements:
- For Staff: At least 7 years of Product Design experience
- For Principal: At least 10 years of Product Design experience
- At least 2 years at a venture-funded, private startup required
- For Principal: At least 2 years in a role where you are influencing the work of others either through direct management or indirect leadership
- The majority of your experience is in-house working on direct-to-consumer products
- You've worked in a high-velocity, experiment-driven environment
- An understanding of when to use the design process and when to shortcut it. Your process has predictably excellent output
- You can clearly articulate the reasoning behind your design decisions. Your work demonstrates intentionality and rigorous thinking
- Demonstrated ability to measure the impact of your work and its impact on the business
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates your ability to move quickly while producing high-quality work, including interaction details, storytelling, visual polish, and content design
- Experience leading projects end-to-end, including discovery, problem definition, ideation, and validation, all the way through engineering implementation and measurement
- Experience in launching 0-1 products, not just iterating on something that already exists
- For Principal: A track record of raising the bar for the design practices you have been a member of