Senior Product Designer

About Ethos

Ethos is on a mission to bridge the human readiness gap by transforming how training is developed, consumed, and aligned with strategic business outcomes. As a well-funded Series A startup ($40M+ raised), we’re a trusted partner to 150+ enterprise customers across the U.S. military, life sciences, manufacturing, supply chain, and professional sports.

We’re expanding our engineering team to deliver a best-in-class learning platform—smarter, faster, and more optimized.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead the entire product design lifecycle from conception to launch. This role is responsible for designing intuitive, user-centered interfaces that balance functionality and aesthetics across web and mobile platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of AI-powered user experiences, systems engineering, and agile collaboration, ensuring our designs are both innovative and technically feasible.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the entire product design lifecycle from conception to launch, designing user interfaces through a user-centered design process that balances functionality and aesthetics.
• Design intuitive user interfaces for AI-powered features, ensuring transparency, trust, and usability in AI interactions.
• Integrate AI-driven insights and analytics into the design process to improve user experience and personalization.
• Lead UX design initiatives within an agile team environment.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to translate system requirements and user needs into innovative UX designs.
• Take ownership of final work deliverables and handoff to engineering.  Support engineering team through release.
• Conduct UX research and usability testing to validate concepts and incorporate feedback into design iterations.
• Analyze user interaction data to inform design decisions.
• Leverage your understanding of systems engineering to ensure designs are feasible and integrate smoothly into existing systems.
• Effectively communicate design rationales and specifications to stakeholders and team members.
• Create user flows to understand and communicate user needs.
• Develop robust wireframes and mockups based on user research.
• Rapidly prototype and iterate design mockups, owning designs for several features.
• Participate in design reviews and assist in user testing processes.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of a UX design system, ensuring consistency across product lines.
• Advocate for user-centered design processes and educate others on their importance.

30/60+ Day Plan

First 30 Days: Discover & Align

• Deep-dive into Ethos’s product ecosystem (authoring tools, analytics dashboards, learner UX) and existing design system.
• Audit UI/UX across mobile and web for consistency and usability gaps.
• Build relationships with the design team, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders.
• Shadow agile ceremonies, design cadence, and partner with Product leads to familiarize yourself across key workflows and initiatives.

60+ Days: Define & Design

• Own first key features across both mobile and web, ensuring a unified and adaptive design approach.
• Deliver high-quality UX and UI designs for multiple core product features from conception through launch.
• Integrate AI-driven insights into user experience design, improving personalization and user trust in AI interactions.
• Collaborate with product and engineers to validate feasibility, performance, and accessibility of designs.
• Develop wireframes, prototypes, and usability test plans to validate core design assumptions.
• Lead design reviews to align on priorities across key workflows.
• Conduct usability testing and identify pain points with internal stakeholders and customers.
• Establish or refine a consistent design system used across product lines.
• Take ownership of final work deliverables and handoff to engineering.  Support engineering team through release.
• Successfully conduct and apply insights from user research and usability testing to improve product usability and engagement.
• Demonstrate leadership in UX strategy and execution within an agile environment.

Basic Qualifications

• Online portfolio showcasing examples of published work.
• 6+ years of experience as a UX designer, UX researcher, or human factors engineer.
• Proficiency with design tools, particularly Figma (our main tool), Miro, and Adobe Suite, including creating new components, maintaining design systems, and building interactive prototypes.
• Expertise in UX and user-centered design processes.
• Customer-centric design mindset and ability to navigate ambiguous design requirements.
• Experience facilitating design workshops to refine designs and gather requirements.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience leading design teams or acting as a task lead.
• Experience designing for AI, data visualizations, and/or enterprise grade systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline. 
• Experience leading design for mobile platforms.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary based on location ($140k-$190k) and experience with significant equity upside.
• Subsidized health insurance, 401(k), life insurance, and a cell phone stipend.
• Remote-first culture with up to 10-20% travel for offsites and customer engagement.
• Work eligibility: Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

One Final Note

• We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification, please apply—you may be just the right candidate.
• EEO & accommodations: Ethos is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and provide reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process.