Next Insurance is a fast-growing startup based in Silicon Valley that is led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs with a history of successful outcomes. Our mission is to transform insurance for small businesses by combining world-class technology and phenomenal customer service to offer better insurance at a lower price. As the leading digital insurtech company transforming small business insurance, we just announced a $250 million new funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to $4 billion and total funding raised to more than $880 million!

Next is looking for explorers who are filled with curiosity, have the desire to travel the unbeaten path, and realize new heights in providing small business owners with the peace of mind to run their businesses. If you move fast, customer-focused, and willing to challenge the status quo, Next Insurance might just be your next journey.

As a Designer for Next Insurance, you will ideate, explore, debate, and design the way buying small business insurance should happen. Here at Next, one of our core values is dare to simplify and our design team lives and breathes simplicity in our work. We constantly look for ways to further simplify and push the boundaries.

We are a small team of people looking to revolutionize how small businesses buy insurance. We passionately believe that the complex process of buying insurance has reached a tipping point, and we are unusually determined to build a more efficient experience. Our team values hands-on collaboration, diving in feet first, moving fast, and approaching all obstacles with a smile and a can-do attitude. We have an amazing team of diverse, motivated, and talented people who love working together.

Your creativity, leadership, passion, and perseverance will combine with your craft to help you imagine and create top-tier work that delights and connects with our many customer personas

What You’ll Do: 

• Defining the Design System roadmap that will have the most impact to empower Product Designers at Next.
• Facilitate and evolve the look and feel of Next’s Product Design language, its components and design patterns, from concepts to implementation.
• Align best practices across the different ecosystems where Next products live in: web, app, partner touchpoints, and internal user interfaces.
• Work closely with our Brand Designers to build a consistent Brand and Product experience across the whole customer journey.
• Ensure that our components are implemented with the highest level of quality.
• Overseeing the work being done to provide the best design guidelines and resources that best explain how to use the system and tools available.
• Help shape the design culture at Next that will ultimately define every interaction customers have with our products and services.

What We Need:

• 4+ years as a designer, with an emphasis on design systems and visual design.
• A strong online portfolio demonstrating your experience with creating and implementing design systems.
• Prior experience with B2C tech products or consumer facing digital platform. 
• Extensive knowledge of design-related tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, Invision, etc.
• Experience writing simple and clear design documentation for multiple audiences (designers, developers, product owners and other stakeholders) is a plus.
• Experience in a highly regulated industry such as HealthTech, Healthcare, Fintech, Financial Services, or Insurance is a plus.

One of our core values is 'Play as a Team'; this means making sure everyone has an equal chance to participate and make a difference. We win by playing together. Next Insurance is an equal opportunity employer and prioritizes building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants of any type and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, genetic information or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state, and local laws. Next's policy is to comply with all applicable laws related to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.