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.
About the role
As the engineering leader on our Consumer team, you will oversee teams responsible for the direct to consumer user experience. In this role, you will work closely with Product, Design, User Research, and other stakeholders to build fullstack features that educate and support users through the pre-application, application, package select, and checkout funnels. You will lead, strategize, develop and execute projects to optimize conversion rates through AB tests. You will collaborate with our Underwriting, Enterprise Sales, and Data engineering teams to support the entire user and event lifecycle and data model. You will work with Senior Engineers to decompose an existing monolithic application into scalable micro services.
The Consumer team is responsible for the customer journey and is the largest revenue driver across the company. You will be joining at a critical time to drive outsized impact, define organizational strategy and shape team culture.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead high-impact tech and product initiatives in order to accelerate our business growth.
- Work closely with product, design, content and marketing to ideate and experiment with new product strategies.
- Use quantitative and qualitative insights to make data-informed decisions.
- Obsess over your pod's core metrics and KPIs.
- Uphold a strong bar for engineering velocity, delivery and execution.
- Review design, architecture and help mentor the team.
- Recruit, hire, grow, and retain A+ engineering talent.
- Provide meaningful feedback to your team to enable their work and growth.
Qualifications and Skills:
- 3+ years of engineering management experience in high-growth engineering organizations
- 5+ years of engineering experience as an individual contributor
- Experience building large, business critical projects which are highly cross functional in nature and require a deep understanding of business logic
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with product to craft a strategy for new business opportunities
- Ability to own consumer-focused metrics like ARPU, conversion, retention, and churn.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, adept at working in a cross-functional group.
- Be a self-starter, you are able to get things going without much guidance.
- Experience implementing process best practices within a rapidly growing team.
- Know how to build focused roadmaps and make difficult trade-offs.
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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.
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Skills Required
- 3+ years of engineering management experience in high-growth engineering organizations
- 5+ years of engineering experience as an individual contributor
- Experience decomposing a monolithic application into scalable microservices
- Experience building large, cross-functional, business-critical projects
- Experience designing and executing A/B tests and conversion optimization
- Ability to own consumer-focused metrics (ARPU, conversion, retention, churn)
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with Product to craft business strategy
- Experience implementing process best practices in rapidly growing teams
- Experience recruiting, hiring, growing, and retaining engineering talent
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and cross-functional collaboration
- Full‑stack development familiarity and ability to review design and architecture
What We Do
Ethos makes getting life insurance instant and easy. Our approach blends technology and industry expertise, and the human touch to deliver an incredible life insurance experience. Ethos has raised over $400 million of capital from Sequoia, Accel, Google Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Softbank and more. We are one of the largest U.S. life insurance issuers. We continue to scale quickly and are looking for passionate Ethosaurs to protect the next million families.
Why Work With Us
Ethos is powered by people from all kinds of backgrounds. We embrace a one-team, one-dream mentality, while encouraging Ethosaurs to speak their mind and act boldly, even in the absence of consensus. We believe in decentralized decision making - not decisions made by committee. Here you can have an impact and true ownership over your successes.
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