Product Design Lead, Underwriting
Offer summary
Qualifications:
7+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio demonstrating impact and clarity across complex systems., Experience in designing 0 to 1 products and improving existing systems., Strong systems thinker with the ability to simplify complexity into intuitive workflows., Excellent communication skills, able to present ideas clearly while being open to feedback..Key responsabilities:
- Lead the design of the underwriting platform, focusing on accuracy, speed, and usability.
- Define the long-term design vision and UX strategy, integrating human expertise with AI insights.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand underwriter needs and design effective solutions.
- Mentor and manage one designer, fostering growth and quality in design work.
Job description
About us
Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.
Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.
About the role
This role offers flexibility to be a hands-on individual contributor or a player-coach—spending the majority of your time designing, while mentoring and managing one designer.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of Coalition’s underwriting platform, owning end-to-end experiences that drive accuracy, speed, and usability
- Define the long-term design vision and UX strategy for a system that blends human expertise and AI-powered insights
- Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deeply understand underwriter needs and workflows
- Design solutions that bring clarity and confidence to complex decision-making processes
- Translate abstract or technical concepts (like risk scoring and automation) into elegant, intuitive experiences
- Apply a service design mindset to identify and solve pain points across the underwriting journey
- Use qualitative and quantitative insights to guide decisions and iterate with purpose
- Contribute to and help evolve our design system in collaboration with other designers
- If applicable: manage and mentor one designer, fostering growth and quality across the work
Skills and Qualifications
- 7+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio of work that shows impact, clarity, and craftsmanship across complex systems and workflows
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and moving quickly—you're energized by fast-paced environments
- Experienced designing 0 to 1 products as well as improving and scaling existing systems
- Strong systems thinker with an eye for simplifying complexity into intuitive, efficient workflows
- Clear and thoughtful communicator who can confidently present your point of view while remaining open to feedback
- Skilled at balancing diverse inputs—user needs, business goals, and technical constraints—and turning them into actionable design solutions
- Collaborates seamlessly with cross-functional teams, contributing to product strategy as well as execution
- Deep experience with enterprise, internal, or B2B products where clarity, speed, and accuracy matte
Perks
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
- Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
Why Coalition?
We’re a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.
Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.
We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.
Privacy Notice
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Anti-Discrimination Notice
Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.
Accommodations
Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at candidateaccommodations@coalitioninc.com. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.
To all potential candidates: Coalition primarily does not use third-party recruiting services. Potential candidates will only be contacted by Coalition, Inc. during the recruitment process. You can always verify any opportunity on our official careers page http://www.coalitioninc.com/careers.
To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Required profile
Experience
Other Skills
- Systems Thinking
- Mentorship
- Communication
- Problem Solving
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