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Modern Life

Design Lead

New York, United States

Location
New York, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Lead / staff
Function
Design
Pay
$180K – $220K a year
Posted
5 months ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $220K a year, is 7% below the median of $237K for lead / staff design jobs in New York (middle half $190K – $270K, 102 jobs that state pay).

629 design jobs open in New York: 14% remote, 169 posted in the last 30 days.

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About the role

Join our team and accelerate your career.

Life insurance is a complex and consequential purchase that impacts hundreds of millions of Americans. With our powerful and integrated digital tools, expert support, and leading insurance products, we empower advisors to better serve their clients, grow their businesses, and bring the future of the industry to life.

We are a high-growth, AI-driven brokerage backed by $35M from top-tier investors, including Thrive Capital (major investors in OpenAI, Stripe, Instagram, Spotify, Slack, and SpaceX), New York Life, and Northwestern Mutual.

Join a passionate team of product-minded technologists and insurance professionals who are at the leading edge of a massive industry. Make a tangible difference in people's lives and help deliver our mission to help everyone protect what matters most through advanced technology and tailored advice.

This is a senior individual contributor role focused on product design. You'll own the design of key product areas end to end, partner closely with product and engineering, and work with our contractors to ship. You'll work within our existing brand and design system and help evolve it, with direction and support from leadership.

What You'll Do

  • Own product design for core areas, including advisor workflows and our AI Workspace
  • Define, launch, and iterate solutions that are clear, usable, and elegant
  • Partner with product and engineering from early concept through launch
  • Brief and review UI/UX contractor work on your product areas
  • Contribute to and improve our design system and Figma library

Your Impact

  • Make the process of buying and selling insurance easier for advisors, our customers
  • Raise the quality and consistency of the product experience
  • Mentor contractors and teammates through thoughtful critique

About You

  • 5+ years of experience in digital product design, ideally including time on an in-house team
  • A portfolio showing your ability to define, execute, and iterate on product solutions
  • Strong visual craft and comfort working within a refined brand
  • Curiosity and experimentation mindset; actively exploring how new tools can help your work
  • Based in NYC and open to working from our SoHo office, in person hybrid 4 days a week

Bonus Points

  • You have experience working with complex B2B workflows and systems, or with Service Design methods
  • You have mentored other designers or directed freelancers

Competitive equity package included

Source

Posted by Modern Life on their own hiring page, jobs.lever.co. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 12:12 UTC; the original is the reference.

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