Design Lead

Modern Life

Design Lead focusing on user experience and design for an AI-driven life insurance brokerage. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful design solutions.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive design and user experience across Modern Life’s product and brand presence
Define, launch and iterate solutions that are clear, usable, and elegant
Translate complexity into clarity in everything you touch, from research to pixels
Push the bleeding edge of your approach and tools as AI capabilities continue to evolve
Collaborate closely with cross-functional team from early concept through execution
Direct and get the most out of work from other designers where needed, including external design freelancers — scoping, briefing, reviewing, and shipping

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ 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 impactful design solutions
Curiosity and experimentation mindset; actively exploring how new tools can help your work
Driven by tenacious problem-solving, deliver viable, desirable, feasible solutions
Leadership experience or clear leadership aptitude; comfortable directing the work of other designers (including freelancers) and giving them what they need to be productive
Systems thinker comfortable applying a defined system and seizing opportunities to evolve it
Experience working with a refined brand; able to execute with visual finesse, uphold guidelines and apply good taste to design solutions
Highly collaborative work style with stakeholders and peers
Driven to build life insurance domain expertise through self-study, user research, pairing with internal subject matter experts
Based in NYC and open to working from our SoHo office - in person hybrid 4 days a week

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Life insurance
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

digital product designuser experience designdesign iterationproblem-solvingvisual designdesign systemsportfolio developmentAI capabilitiescollaborationbrand execution

Soft Skills

leadershipcuriosityexperimentationtenacitycollaborationcommunicationsystems thinkingadaptabilitycreativityattention to detail