Principal Product Designer

About Ethos

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.

Design at Ethos

Design at Ethos plays an instrumental role in shaping every aspect of the product. We work across the organization to develop novel solutions to large, interesting challenges, and build world class products that create real value for real people. You will experiment, invent, and occasionally fail but most importantly, you will make and impact and grow in your craft.

About the Role

We’re looking for a seasoned designer with leadership experience to help build the next generation of products at Ethos. This is a player coach role focused on craft at scale. You’ll own some projects but also direct the work of other designers. As part of a team, you’ll help set the bar for quality and impact for the team, and help the team achieve it. You will work across a variety of products and experiences that span our core businesses and expand into new businesses.

Your influence across the team is not limited to ‘mentorship,’ you will be in a position to actively uplevel the output through your feedback, standards and systems that you design and implement.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Lead design strategy across multiple business units including all aspects of design craft

Help set the vision for our overall user experience

Direct and guide the work of other designers

Build new products and iterate on existing ones

Manage executive stakeholders across engineering, product, marketing, and more

Drive improvements to the product development process with cross functional partners

Qualifications & Skills:

At least 10 years of Product Design experience

At least 2 years at a venture-funded, private startup required

At least 2 years in a role where you are influencing the work of others either through direct management or indirect leadership

Demonstrable impact raising the bar for design practices and output of organizations you have been a member of

The majority of your experience is in-house working on direct-to-consumer products

You’ve worked in a high-velocity, high-ambiguity, experiment-driven environment - ideally in a Growth Product/Design environment

You’ve worked on high consideration consumer flows where storytelling and design craft are meaningful levers for product performance

You can clearly articulate the reasoning behind your design decisions. Your work demonstrates intentionality and rigorous thinking

A strong portfolio that demonstrates your ability to produce high-quality work, including interaction details, storytelling, visual polish, and content design