About Ethos
Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families. Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones.
We leverage deep technology and data science to streamline the life insurance process, making it more accessible and convenient. Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes! We’ve issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers, ushering the industry into the modern age. Our full-stack technology platform is the backbone of family financial health.
We make getting life insurance easier, faster and better for everyone.
Our investors include General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, SoftBank, and the investment vehicles of Jay-Z, Kevin Durant, Robert Downey Jr and others. This year, we were named on CB Insights' Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIn's Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco. We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families!
About the Role
At Ethos, design is core to how we build trust and deliver value. We’re looking for a Product Designer II to join our Platform team and shape the experiences that power customer acquisition and identity verification.You’ll design flows that help people prove who they are — quickly, fairly, and with confidence — across consumer, agent, and microsite touchpoints. Along the way, you’ll also influence how internal tools evolve (Workbench, MDM, policy admin) to make our systems smarter and more human-friendly.From day one, you’ll contribute to priority projects with strong design execution. Over time, you’ll own end-to-end design journeys — from problem discovery and research to prototyping, iteration, and polished delivery.This is a chance to elevate critical, high-volume experiences that millions of customers depend on, while growing your craft and impact within a collaborative design culture.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Own design across the lifecycle: from framing problems to prototyping solutions, refining details, and shipping.
- Partner with PM, Eng, and Data to prioritize, experiment, and deliver experiences that balance usability, trust, and growth.
- Learn directly from customers through research, usability testing, and analytics — and translate those insights into clear design decisions.
- Raise the bar for usability, accessibility, and visual quality across identity and verification flows.
Contribute to design culture by documenting patterns, sharing feedback, and helping Ethos build a cohesive design system over time.
- Impactful Work: Your designs will directly shape how people access financial security and trust Ethos with their identities.
- Growth & Mentorship: You’ll be supported by peers and leaders who care deeply about your development and long-term career.
- Design Culture: We value curiosity, craft, and collaboration — and we celebrate designers who push for better experiences.
- Hybrid Surfaces: You’ll work on both customer-facing journeys and powerful internal tools, giving you range and depth.
Qualifications and Skills:
- 4–6 years of product design experience (in-house or at startups/agencies with shipped impact).
- A portfolio that shows user-centric, first-principled thinking and strong interaction/visual craft with shipped impact.
- Comfort with both discovery and execution — asking the right questions, and then moving quickly to make progress.
- Clear, collaborative communication skills and a bias toward action.
- Bonus: experience with form-heavy UX, complex workflows, or B2B/internal tools; familiarity with KYC/IDV is a plus but not required.
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Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.
We are an equal opportunity employer who values diversity and inclusion and look for applicants who understand, embrace and thrive in a multicultural world. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.
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