Ethos builds digital life-insurance products intended to make coverage easier to understand and obtain. Its platform serves consumers, agents, and carriers while removing traditional application friction.
Principal Design Systems Designer
Lead the strategy, craft, governance, and adoption of the design system supporting Ethos’s consumer, agent, and carrier products.
- Salary
- $165,000–$292,000/year
- Commitment
- Full-time
- Remote region
- Remote · United States
- Engagement
- Full-time employee
- Duration
- Permanent
About this role
The Principal Design Systems Designer will define the system’s long-term direction while remaining close to component, pattern, documentation, and tooling work. The role connects design quality with the practical needs of teams shipping across several product surfaces.
This person will partner closely with designers and engineers, improve contribution and governance practices, and help teams deliver consistent, accessible experiences at scale.
Role requirements and focus
What you’ll work on
- Set a clear design-system strategy and roadmap across Ethos products.
- Improve reusable components, patterns, documentation, and contribution workflows.
- Increase adoption and product consistency through close design-and-engineering partnership.
What they’re looking for
- Deep experience building and evolving design systems for complex digital products.
- Strong systems, interaction, visual-design, and accessibility judgment.
- Ability to align stakeholders and influence product teams without relying on formal authority.
Skills and focus
- Design systems
- Product design
- UI
- Content design
- Accessibility
Useful context
Specialty
Design systems
Work type
Full-time employee
Source
Greenhouse employer job page
Last verified
Jul 31
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