Senior UX/UI Product Designer

Leopard; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Free in-office food and drinks

Paid holidays

Encouraged PTO

Equity opportunities

Job summary

Coventry, the life settlements leader, is seeking a UX/UI Product Designer to own the design of AI-native platforms for consumers and business users, in collaboration with product and engineering.

The role covers internal tooling and external interfaces across life insurance and annuity domains, with hybrid work and NYC presence near Madison Square Garden. You will be the first staff designer, shaping design culture and standards as the team grows.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of product design experience with a strong portfolio of shipped work (B2B and B2C).
• Deep UX fundamentals including IA, flows, and interaction design.
• Strong UI craft in Figma with production-ready designs.
• Active use of AI/generative AI tools in design workflows and a point of view on their impact.
• Clear communicator, able to present and defend decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Track record of owning projects end-to-end and delivering against milestones.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design of core user journeys for employee tooling and external interfaces; produce wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
• Define and evolve information architecture and ontology to aid navigation for high-skill and first-time users.
• Establish the design foundation for AI-powered features and intelligent guidance across surfaces.
• Build and maintain a design system to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Contribute to the product roadmap with user insight and design thinking.

Skills

UX Design

Information Architecture

Interaction Design

User Flows

UI Design

AI in Design

Communication

Tools

Figma

Job description

At Coventry, the market leader in life settlements, we're reinventing how life insurance and annuities are built, distributed, and experienced — and we're hiring a UX/UI Product Designer to help design our AI-native platform for consumers and the businesses that serve them.

In this role,you'llown the design of both internal business operations& consumeruser experiences in close collaboration with product and engineering.We’relooking for somebody comfortable working on tools and first-party interfaces as well as developing front-end UX for external users in the life insurance, annuities, and personal medical data spaces.

We'relooking for someone energized by hard design problems, comfortable with AI tools, and motivated to build a design culture where curiosity, craft, and ownership matter. You should havehigh standardsand the flexibility to adapt your process as new tools go from experimental to essential.

This role is in-office two days a weeknear Madison Square Garden and reports to the VP of Product.You'llbe the first staff designer, which means wide scope, real influence, and room to grow into team leadership ifthat'swhere you want to go.Expect to help educate stakeholders on Design best practices as part of getting started.

In your first six months, you will:

• Own the end-to-end design of coreusersjourneys — both employee tooling use-cases and external customer interfaces and product surfaces — producing wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that make complex processes intuitive and easy-to-use

• Define and evolve the product surfaces’ information architecture and ontology: the labels, categories, and conceptual models that help both high-skill and first-time users navigate andoperatequickly andeffectively

• Establish the design foundation for AI-powered features, including how consumers and internal business users interact with intelligent guidance, dynamic recommendations, and agent-driven workflows

• Build andmaintaina design system that keeps the experience consistent, accessible, and ready to scale across product surfaces

• Contribute to the product roadmap with user insight and design thinking — and help set the future trajectory of Coventry's workflows and external surfaces

A little about you:

• 3–7 years of product design experience with a strong portfolio of shipped, B2B and B2C-facing work — user research, ontological decisions, wireframes, and live products

• Deep UX fundamentals: information architecture, interaction design, user flows, and the ability to design for users making high-stakes decisions

• Strong UI craft in Figma — typography, visual hierarchy, spacing, and production-ready designs

• Actively using AI and generative AI tools in your design workflow, with a real point of view on how they change the work — not just the speed

• Clear communicator who can present and defend design decisions, take feedback directly, and keep moving in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

• Track recordof owning projects end-to-end and delivering against milestones

Extra points:

• Experience in life insurance, fintech,healthtech, or any high-trust consumer product where anxiety and decision complexity are core design problems

• Background in content design, UX writing, or plain language standards in regulated industries

• Early-stage startup experience

• Familiarity with conversion optimization, funnel analysis, or designing with quantitative user data

Salary:

The base salary range for this role isUSD $160,000.00 to $180,00.00. Actual paydependson experience, location, and performance. Total compensation also includes eligibility for short- and long-term incentives and equity. Benefits include health insurance, 401(k), free in-office food and drinks, paid holidays, and encouraged PTO.

About Coventry:

Founded in 1982, Coventry created the life settlement market andremainsits category leader, helping policyowners unlock value from life insurance policies they no longer need. As part of a broader effort to transform the business, CoventryacquiredLeopard in 2025, a B2Binsurtechincubated by The D. E. Shaw Group’s venture studio and launched in 2024 to streamline life insurance and annuity lifecycles. Now fully integrated into Coventry’s technology organization, Leopard is part of a unified team advancing Coventry’s long-term ambition to modernize how complex insurance and annuity transactions are supported at scale — combining a product-driven tech culture with the resources, customer base, and market leadership of a category-defining company. Coventry is headquartered in Fort Washington, PA and has offices in New York, NY.