Principal Product Designer

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance. They are seeking a Principal Product Designer to lead design strategy, guide other designers, and manage executive stakeholders while driving improvements to the product development process.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• Experience leading projects end-to-end, including discovery, problem definition, ideation, and validation, all the way through engineering implementation and measurement
• Experience in improving flows and launching 0-1 products
• Demonstrated ability to detect process and misalignment issues quickly and work to alleviate them
• Must be located in Eastern Time Zone