Senior Growth Designer

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-focused creative