[Hiring] Principal Product Designer @Ethos Life

Role Description

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.

• 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

• 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

Requirements

• #LI-Remote
• #LI-JA1

Benefits

• The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $165,000 - $292,000.
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
• 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.
• Further details of our US benefits can be found at Ethos Careers .