Senior Engineering Manager, Consumer
Lead the Consumer team at Ethos Life to enhance user experience and drive business growth in the life insurance technology sector.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Role intensity
10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Engineering Manager on the Consumer team at Ethos Life, the individual will lead efforts to enhance the direct-to-consumer user experience by developing full-stack features and optimizing conversion rates through data-driven strategies. Key skills include extensive engineering management experience, a strong grasp of business logic, and the ability to collaborate across functions to drive product initiatives. This position is ideal for someone with a proven track record in high-growth environments who can effectively mentor teams and navigate complex projects. Ethos is at a pivotal moment, seeking to redefine the life insurance landscape while fostering a culture of inn
Joblaze insights
- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Ethos Life's career page.
- Ethos Life has 70 other open roles including Manager- Life Underwriting, Life Underwriter, IT Engineer.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Engineering Manager, Consumer role remote?
- It's hybrid — Ethos Life expects some on-site time in Bangalore, India.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Senior Engineering Manager, Consumer role.
- Where is the role based?
- Ethos Life is hiring for this position in Bangalore, India.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Ethos Life targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Engineering Manager, Consumer role at Ethos Life.
From the original posting
About Ethos
Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.
About the role
As the engineering leader on our Consumer team, you will oversee teams responsible for the direct to consumer user experience. In this role, you will work closely with Product, Design, User Research, and other stakeholders to build fullstack features that educate and support users through the pre-application, application, package select, and checkout funnels. You will lead, strategize, develop and execute projects to optimize conversion rates through AB tests. You will collaborate with our Underwriting, Enterprise Sales, and Data engineering teams to support the entire user and event lifecycle and data model. You will work with Senior Engineers to decompose an existing monolithic application into scalable micro services.
The Consumer team is responsible for the customer journey and is the largest revenue driver across the company. You will be joining at a critical time to drive outsized impact, define organizational strategy and shape team culture.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead high-impact tech and product initiatives in order to accelerate our business growth.
- Work closely with product, design, content and marketing to ideate and experiment with new product strategies.
- Use quantitative and qualitative insights to make data-informed decisions.
- Obsess over your pod's core metrics and KPIs.
- Uphold a strong bar for engineering velocity, delivery and execution.
- Review design, architecture and help mentor the team.
- Recruit, hire, grow, and retain A+ engineering talent.
- Provide meaningful feedback to your team to enable their work and growth.
Qualifications and Skills:
- 3+ years of engineering management experience in high-growth engineering organizations
- 5+ years of engineering experience as an individual contributor
- Experience building large, business critical projects which are highly cross functional in nature and require a deep understanding of business logic
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with product to craft a strategy for new business opportunities
- Ability to own consumer-focused metrics like ARPU, conversion, retention, and churn.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, adept at working in a cross-functional group.
- Be a self-starter, you are able to get things going without much guidance.
- Experience implementing process best practices within a rapidly growing team.
- Know how to build focused roadmaps and make difficult trade-offs.
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