Director, Product Design

Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies on a mission to deliver outstanding value and operational performance by combining financial strength and stability with deep insurance expertise and a can-do culture. Group1001’s culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication, core business focus, risk management, and striving for outcomes. This goal extends to how we hire and onboard our most valuable assets – our employees.

Company Overview:

Gainbridge, a part of the Group 1001 enterprise, is a self-managed, innovative, digital platform providing its clients with direct access to trusted financial products to smartly grow their savings over time. Gainbridge strives to offer products through its platform that are simple, intuitive, and backed by smart technology with no complexity or hidden fees. Gainbridge empowers clients to take control of the financial future with simple solutions that are accessible to everyone no matter their budget.

Group 1001, and its affiliated companies, is strongly committed to providing a supportive work environment where employee differences are valued. Diversity is an essential ingredient in making Group 1001 a welcoming place to work and is fundamental in building a high-performance team. Diversity embodies all the differences that make us unique individuals.  All employees share the responsibility for maintaining a workplace culture of dignity, respect, understanding and appreciation of individual and group differences.

About the Role

We're looking for a Director of Product Design for Gainbridge who is biased toward inclusivity and collaboration and creates a long-term design strategy working with the product management, engineering, and business stakeholders to grow the product experience for B2C and B2C customers continuously. You’ve demonstrated delivering high-quality B2C and B2B2C experiences through building high-functioning design teams that are inspired by customer insights and data. You’re intrigued by how you can enable our customers’ lives through financial services and insurance products and see an opportunity for a win-win-win relationship for our consumers, customers, and Gainbridge. You’re opinionated about product direction down to the pixels and words and relentless about improving the experience.

You partner well with other experienced design leads, including design, research, and content, to ensure cohesion across the design organization and help drive internal cultural change to champion our users and business customers.

This role will report to the VP of Product Management.

What You’ll Do

• Drive and lead the design vision for our D2C and B2B products
• Lead teams from complex and ambiguous situations to clarity and focus
• Hire and build a healthy team culture of highly talented designers through ambiguity and change during hypergrowth
• Able to engage internally with stakeholders & execs to enable the team's success
• Work closely with product management and engineering through identifying opportunities to invest in for long-term growth and innovation
• Support with prioritization of short-term to long-term results-oriented work that drives impact through high quality and successful execution across several product areas
• Establish operational rigor for design: using principles, frameworks, and qualitative and quantitative insights to guide your team for the continuous growth of the function and the product
• Foster an inclusive environment to allow teams to thrive

What We Are Looking For

• 12+ years of experience in product design-focused roles, with specific experience in B2C and B2B2C products
• Demonstrated experience in growing a strategic practice of design and hiring strong design teams
• Demonstrated a strong eye for execution craft with an obsession with design details and knowing how to make trade-offs to get into the market to learn
• Demonstrated operational rigor and ability to improve the team's culture and cross-functional partnerships.
• An established portfolio of you/your team working cross-functionally, thinking strategically across the experience, and shipping successful customer experiences in a fast-paced environment. (Required)

What we value

• A mindset to experiment quickly without sacrificing quality
• Willingness and creativity to solve hard problems
• Collaborative approach and focus on finding the best ideas, wherever they may be
• Diversity in experiences and thinking

What we offer

• Competitive salary based on experience
• 401k match plus the usual medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• Generous vacation policy
• A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most innovative teams in the fintech industry and help transform how insurance and annuity products are distributed today

Benefits Highlights:  

Employees who meet benefit eligibility guidelines and work 30 hours or more weekly, have the ability to enroll in Group 1001’s benefits package. Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the Company’s comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plan options.  Employees are also eligible for Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability, and to enroll in the Company’s Employee Assistance Program and other wellness initiatives.  Employees may also participate in the Company’s 401K plan, with matching contributions by the Company.