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ABOUT BESTOW
Bestow is the leading digital platform for life insurance. As both a direct-to-consumer destination and an infrastructure provider, Bestow is on a mission to make life insurance accessible to millions of underserved families.
We strive for work-life balance and believe happy employees make for better experiences and happier customers. It’s a model that helped us land on Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 and 2022 lists!
In this Senior Product Designer role, you will be leading improvements on our Foundations Team. This team is responsible for supporting insurance operations tools and services that assist product engineering teams to accelerate their delivery. You will be a key partner in helping us evolve and scale key Bestow products. You will be designing new workflows that improve the Foundations platform within Figma, as well as facilitating cross-functional collaboration, testing, and shipping of high-quality work that is aligned with our objectives and values.
Austin, Dallas, or #LI-Remote (US)
What You’ll Do:
- Expand capabilities of an existing product - from scoping, designing, documenting, and shipping new features and improvements.
- Provide insightful user-centered solutions that enhance our platform capabilities so they rely less on manual engineering inputs.
- Create a strategy on how our portal toolset evolves within the team and across multiple teams over time.
- Collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to help prioritize a design backlog for near and long-term solutions.
- Be a strong communicator in helping shape the strategy, goals, and roadmaps of the Foundations team.
- Own the overall look and feel of the Ops Portal - both visually (following Brand and Kindred Design Systems) and conceptually (what our brand values)
- Validate usability using qualitative and quantitative research.
What you will need:
- 4+ years of industry experience in designing digital products and services.
- A portfolio that demonstrates an understanding of systems thinking, information hierarchy, and strong visual and interaction design.
- Strong time management, prioritization, and organization skills.
- Comprehensive knowledge of digital best practices - including responsive design.
- Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience facilitating projects and connecting cross-functional teams toward alignment on objectives and goals.
- Experience using and updating a robust, usable, and scalable design system within Figma
- Working knowledge in front-end development (HTML/CSS, React, etc.).
- The ability to understand database infrastructure influence on Front-End constraints.
- Lead design & strategy for a growing SaaS platform.
Total Rewards:
- Generous compensation package
- Stock options
- Flexible schedule and work/life balance
- 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision insurance
- Team building events and activities
We value diversity at Bestow. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team.
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