Job description
About Ethos
Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families. Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones.
We leverage deep technology and data science to streamline the life insurance process, making it more accessible and convenient. Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes! We’ve issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers, ushering the industry into the modern age. Our full-stack technology platform is the backbone of family financial health.
We make getting life insurance easier, faster and better for everyone.
Our investors include General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, SoftBank, and the investment vehicles of Jay-Z, Kevin Durant, Robert Downey Jr and others. This year, we were named on CB Insights’ Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIn’s Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco. We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families!
About the role:
We’re looking for a highly adaptable, conversion-driven Senior Growth Designer to join our Brand & Creative team. In this role, you’ll design creative that doesn’t just look great—it performs. You’ll bring our brand to life across high-impact marketing touchpoints, including paid and organic social, affiliate programs, email campaigns, internal decks, landing pages, and animation—always with measurable growth goals in mind.
You’ll collaborate closely with marketers, copywriters, and channel stakeholders to understand performance objectives, audience insights, and testing strategies—then translate that knowledge into smart, high-converting creative. Your work will span quick-turn ad iterations to net new concepts, all designed and optimized for measurable performance.
This role is ideal for a designer who thrives in a fast-moving, experiment-driven environment. You can pivot quickly, respond to real-time performance data, and own projects from concept to execution—while keeping every piece on-brand, crystal-clear, and strategically impactful.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design a high volume of performance-driven marketing content—including paid social ads, email campaigns, landing pages, affiliate creative, decks, digital ads, company material, and animations.
- Lead high-impact creative from concept to execution—shaping strategic design direction, pitching ideas that align with business goals, and delivering results through rapid, data-informed iteration.
- Partner with growth marketers to test, analyze, and evolve creative based on performance data.
- Tell compelling visual stories using iconography, typography, photography, animation, and infographics to engage and convert audiences.
- Apply and evolve the Ethos brand across key marketing channels, ensuring every touchpoint—email, lifecycle, social, advertising, landing pages, and events—feels consistent, elevated, and strategically tailored to its audience and platform.
- Support creative for new product launches and evolving product lines, designing assets that clearly communicate value, drive engagement, and align with go-to-market strategy across various product types and customer segments.
Qualifications and Skills:
- 5–8+ years of experience in marketing design, with a portfolio that highlights strong conceptual thinking, exceptional visual execution, and performance-driven work. Portfolio must include strong paid social experience.
- Expertise in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite; proficiency with motion design or animation
- Deep understanding of marketing funnels, audience segmentation, and channel best practices
- Strong communication skills—both written and verbal—with an ability to clearly explain design decisions
- Proven experience designing conversion-oriented marketing materials that balance craft and performance
- Demonstrated ability to lead design projects end-to-end—from insights and ideation to execution and iteration
- Skilled in storytelling, visual hierarchy, and audience-first thinking—able to clearly communicate complex ideas with clarity and impact
- Comfortable working across multiple product types and audiences, and quickly shifting between different goals
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with marketing, growth, and product teams, building strong relationships and aligning creative to broader business strategies
- Thrives in a fast-paced, feedback-rich environment with shifting priorities and evolving goals
- Highly organized and self-directed; able to manage multiple projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and adapt quickly
- Attentive to design details
- Receptive to feedback and collaborative in an iterative design process
- Experience in DTC, fintech, or financial services industries preferred, with a portfolio showcasing work for non-physical products.
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The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $91,000-$148,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include applicable bonus, equity, or benefits.
You can find further details of our US benefits at https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer who values diversity and inclusion and look for applicants who understand, embrace and thrive in a multicultural world. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.
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