Staff Product Designer, Principal Product Designer

Summary

Join Ethos, a fast-growing life insurance company, as a seasoned designer to build the next generation of products. As part of a small team, you will help set the bar for quality and impact, working on both "zero-to-one" experiences and optimizing core businesses. You'll be part of the Growth & New Business team, leading strategy and execution to grow the business and build new revenue streams. The role involves managing executive stakeholders and improving the product development process. Ethos offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of Product Design experience
• At least 2 years at a venture-funded startup in the last 4 years required
• 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, 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
• Ability to come into the San Francisco once a week if local to the Bay Area

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

Benefits

• US national base salary range for this full-time position is $126,000 - $224,000
• Bonus
• Equity