Senior Product Design Leader — Craft, Strategy, & Impact

Ethos; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethos is seeking a seasoned Design Leader to help build the next generation of products. This player-coach role focuses on craft at scale, owning projects while guiding other designers.

You will set design quality, influence across teams, and drive impact across our core businesses and new ventures. You’ll lead end-to-end design efforts, mentor peers, and elevate output through standards, feedback loops, and scalable systems.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of Product Design experience.
• At least 2 years at a venture-funded, private startup.
• Experience influencing the work of others through management or leadership.
• In-house experience on direct-to-consumer products.
• Growth Product/Design environment experience.
• Experience with storytelling and design craft as levers for product performance.
• Ability to clearly articulate design decisions with intentionality and rigor.
• Strong portfolio showing high-quality work with interaction details and content design.
• Experience leading end-to-end projects from discovery to engineering implementation and measurement.
• Experience launching 0-1 products.
• Ability to quickly detect and address process or alignment issues.
• Must be located in Eastern Time Zone.

Responsibilities

• Lead design strategy across multiple business units including all aspects of design craft.
• Help set the vision for our overall user experience.
• Direct and guide the work of other designers.
• Build new products and iterate on existing ones.
• Manage executive stakeholders across engineering, product, marketing, and more.
• Drive improvements to the product development process with cross functional partners.

Skills

Product Design

Leadership

User Flows

Portfolio

End-to-End Design

Job description

Ethos is seeking a seasoned Design Leader to help build the next generation of products. This player-coach role focuses on craft at scale, owning projects while guiding other designers.

You will set design quality, influence across teams, and drive impact across our core businesses and new ventures. You’ll lead end-to-end design efforts, mentor peers, and elevate output through standards, feedback loops, and scalable systems.