Ethos · 13 hours ago
Engineering Director, Carrier Distributed Products
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$162K/yr - $287K/yr
10+ years expEthos is a company focused on making life insurance more accessible and convenient through technology and data science. The Engineering Director will be responsible for owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution of carrier distributed products, ensuring they are configurable and independently deployable for carriers.
FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechInsuranceInsurTechLife Insurance
Responsibilities
Set vision and strategy for carrier distributed products, including packaging, modularity, configuration, and long term platform bets
Define the roadmap across distribution experiences, underwriting and requirements, servicing and case management, data and reporting, and admin tooling
Drive prioritization across reusable roadmap investments and carrier driven needs
Create a multi tenant and configurable product foundation: entitlements, feature flags, templates, configuration schemas, and safe customization patterns
Establish release, migration, and backward compatibility practices so carriers can adopt improvements without disruption
Define the operational model: support readiness, incident management interfaces, runbooks, and carrier facing SLAs
Lead discovery across carrier distribution leaders, operations, compliance, and technology teams to understand channel realities: independent agents, call centers, D2C, worksite, and embedded flows
Translate needs into product capabilities such as quoting and eligibility flows, pre fill, underwriting journeys, application UX, drop off recovery, agent tooling, and conversion optimization
Build feedback loops to continuously improve outcomes after launch
Create a repeatable carrier onboarding playbook: implementation phases, launch criteria, cutover plans, training, and documentation
Define carrier facing environments and tooling: sandboxes, test data, certification, monitoring access, and audit reporting
Partner with Implementation and Customer Success to reduce time to value and cost to serve
Manage and develop product managers and product leaders as the team scales
Set product operating rhythms: roadmap reviews, launch readiness, discovery standards, and decision forums
Communicate clearly to executives: tradeoffs, investment needs, timelines, and business impact
Qualification
Required
10+ years of Engineering experience for a Product team, including ownership of complex B2B SaaS or product platform from strategy through launch and iteration
3+ years leading technical teams or leading multiple Engineering managers through multi quarter roadmaps
Demonstrated ability to build configurable products for enterprise customers, with clear boundaries for customization vs core roadmap
Strong product judgment and systems thinking, turning partner requirements into scalable primitives and modules
Comfort operating across technical and commercial stakeholders, including enterprise customers and executive leadership
Strong written and verbal communication, including product strategy docs, PRDs, launch readiness criteria, and executive updates
Data driven approach to measuring outcomes and driving continuous improvements
Company
Ethos
Ethos makes getting life insurance instant and easy.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$413.96MKey Investors
SoftBank Vision FundGeneral CatalystGoogle Ventures
2026-01-29IPO
2022-01-24Series D· $7.46M
2021-07-21Series D· $100M
Leadership Team
Peter Colis
CEO and Co-founder
Vipul Sharma
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
SV Angel
2025-11-28
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