Marketing Designer
Ethos Life
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 are seeking a talented and versatile Marketing Designer to join our Brand & Creative team. The ideal candidate will be a highly skilled designer with a strong focus on conversion-oriented design and a passion for creating visually compelling and impactful marketing materials. This role will primarily focus on lifecycle and email marketing, but will also support design projects across various marketing channels.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Elevate and evolve the Ethos design direction across multiple channels, creating a consistent brand experience across all social, lifecycle marketing, advertising, events and visual communication touch-points. There will be a heavy emphasis on email and lifecycle marketing.
- Design engaging and effective email campaigns, including email templates, layouts, and graphics.
- Design a high volume of compelling marketing content across channels, from concept to execution, including email & social media campaigns, digital ads, landing pages, and other marketing channels as needed
- Collaborate efficiently with marketing and product design to tell Ethos’ story with compelling visuals, iconography, typography, photography, animation and infographics across all digital channels and platforms.
- Help shape the strategic vision and goals for the design team by identifying and pitching ideas that create business or user value
- Lead high-impact projects and programs in a dynamic environment
- Maintain and evolve the Ethos brand and design system ensuring, consistency across all touch points
Qualifications and Skills:
- 4-6 years of professional marketing design experience with a focus on digital marketing
- Excellent understanding of design principles, typography, color theory, and composition
- Strong portfolio demonstrating a variety of design styles and capabilities
- Experience with conversion-oriented design and a proven ability to create high-performing marketing materials
- Experience leading projects and process spanning insights, ideation and validation through to execution
- Proficiency with design tools like Adobe CC and Figma
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to foster strong working relationships with team members and cross-functional partners
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Strong skills around critical thinking and storytelling
- Receptive to feedback in an iterative design process
- Able to work independently, drive multiple projects at a time, and iterate quickly
- Experience in DTC or financial services industry preferred
- Experience in photography, video editing, or animation is a bonus
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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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