Senior Engineering Manager, Consumer

Ethos; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethos in Bengaluru is seeking an engineering leader for its Consumer team to oversee direct-to-consumer user experiences. You will partner with Product, Design, User Research, and Data teams to build full-stack features guiding users through pre-application, application, package select, and checkout funnels.

You will drive conversion-rate improvements via AB tests, align with Underwriting and Sales, and lead the decomposition of a monolithic app into scalable microservices, mentoring engineers

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering management experience in high-growth teams.
• 5+ years of engineering experience as an IC.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product and design.
• Own consumer-focused metrics like ARPU, conversion, retention, and churn.
• Strong communication and self-starting mindset.
• Experience building focused roadmaps and scalable processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead high‑impact tech and product initiatives to accelerate growth.
• Collaborate with product, design, content and marketing on strategies.
• Use data and qualitative insights to guide decisions.
• Own pod metrics and drive engineering velocity and delivery.
• Review architecture and mentor the team.
• Recruit and grow engineering talent.

Skills

Engineering management

Cross-functional work

Data-driven decisions

Roadmap strategy

Mentoring teams

Communication

Job description

About Ethos

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 Ethos

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.

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.

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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