[Hiring] Associate Creative Director @Ethos Life

Role Description

There's a category that's been doing things the same way for over a hundred years. We're here to change that.

Most ACD’s don't dream about performance marketing. We're looking for the one who does. The one who gets genuinely excited by the question: why did that ad work? This isn't a role for someone who wants to ship beautiful work and move on. It's for the rare AD who has a strong aesthetic point of view, cares deeply about craft, and loves seeing their work tied directly to real results.

This role has one core mandate: raise the visual bar across everything we make. You'll have significant ownership over the look and feel of Ethos across paid social, video, and all marketing touchpoints, and will play a key role in shaping how this brand shows up visually.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Refine and elevate the visual quality of everything we make: paid social static ads, video, website, one-pagers, and all marketing touchpoints
• Refine our visual system where you see fit, including color palette, typography, photography style, illustration direction, end cards, and bumpers
• Develop sonic branding that translates consistently across TV, radio, and digital
• Collaborate closely with the video creative team to ensure visual consistency and quality across all formats
• Stay deeply in tune with what's working and what isn't across our paid social creative, using performance data to inform visual decisions
• Champion AI adoption to accelerate concepting, design production, and creative iteration
• Bring curiosity and ambition to explore new visual territories and push the brand beyond where it's been

Qualifications

• 7+ years in art and creative direction with a strong portfolio spanning performance creative and brand
• Exceptional visual design sensibility with experience refining or evolving brand identity systems, including color, type, photography, and illustration
• Experience designing for paid social at scale, you understand how visual decisions affect performance and why
• Familiarity with video creative, including end cards, bumpers, and motion, is a strong plus
• Experience developing or contributing to sonic branding is a plus
• AI-forward, you're already using AI tools in your design workflow and excited to bring that to a team
• Genuine obsession with design, advertising, and how visual craft moves people to act

Requirements

• The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $127,000 - $223,000.
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
• Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
• Compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include applicable bonus, equity, or benefits.

Benefits

• You can find further details of our US benefits at Ethos Careers .

Company Description

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.