Senior Designer

Overview:

If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we're hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a Senior Designer. This role will play a critical part in shaping how our insurance experts work-designing software that supports clarity, efficiency, and confident decision-making at scale.

In this role, you'll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and business leaders to drive discovery, research, and product design from problem definition through delivery. You'll share ownership of outcomes, influence design direction across initiatives, and help advance how design functions within SageSure. This is an opportunity for you if you thrive in ambiguity, lead discovery with intention, and are motivated by shipping software that delivers real business and user impact.

What you'd be doing:

• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, data specialists, and other designers to shape solutions and ensure efficient, high-quality implementation.
• Lead end-to-end design efforts, including discovery, ideation, interaction design, and high-fidelity visual design.
• Plan and run user research with research and cross-functional teammates when needed.
• Design from a blank slate and within existing product architectures using our design system, balancing innovation with consistency and scalability, and contributing new patterns / components when needed.
• Translate complex data and workflows into clear, intuitive, usable experiences (including states, edge cases, and error handling.)
• Facilitate design discussions by navigating tradeoffs, aligning stakeholders, and driving toward thoughtful, well-reasoned design decisions.
• Communicate the rationale behind design solutions-grounded in research, data, and business context-and incorporate feedback through iteration.
• Work with engineering through implementation to ensure what ships matches the intended experience.
• Use qualitative and quantitative insights to measure success, inform iteration, and continuously improve the user experience.

We're looking for someone who has:

• 5-7 years of experience in a senior-level product or UX design role, leading complex design initiatives end-to-end.
• Comfort working through ambiguity and driving clarity across stakeholders
• Experience designing information-dense, data-heavy interfaces with clear hierarchy, readability, and thoughtful use of space.
• Fluency in creating workflow diagrams, interactive prototypes, and finished designs, with documentation that clearly communicates the design and functionality of new features.
• Experience measuring, reporting on, and advancing the value of new and existing features.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain evidence-based design decisions for review and implementation.
• Strong attention to detail, including language, patterns, visual design flaws, etc.
• A portfolio that shows problem solving with quality visual designs showcasing your eye for detail; clear and thoughtful writing; thoughtful discovery practices; etc.
• Working knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design practices.
• Experience contributing to a design system by identifying reusable patterns, improving components, and documenting usage.
• Experience writing and refining UX copy that drives clarity while complying with copy guidelines

Highly preferred candidates also have:

• Experience in Insurtech or Fintech and rich B2B2C software ecosystems.
• Experience designing for expert users (high-context roles) while considering downstream customer and business impact.
• A proven track record of advocating for and growing design mindsets and team culture within organizations.
• Experience thriving in a highly collaborative culture centered on cross-functional teams

Software at SageSure:

Originally founded as a software and analytics business, SageSure's proprietary technology has always been a key source of competitive advantage. We offer agents and policyholders best-in-class, modern capabilities to quote and bind insurance, service policies, and submit and track claims. We operate a microservices-based SaaS platform and conduct a substantial share of our business through our API. Our software product, engineering, and operations teams set the bar for talent in our industry. We work remotely from numerous states across the country and are always looking for exceptional individuals to join us.

We are continually innovating with modern tools and technologies, and we welcome new perspectives. An ideal candidate will have a passion for some of our key technologies and advocate pragmatic industry practices around availability, scalability, security, and automation. A cloud-based infrastructure, continuous integration and delivery, and a quality-first approach help us to better deliver software. A metrics-driven mindset has become part of our DNA and helps us make data-driven decisions. If you have interests across these domains, we want to help grow and foster them.

About SageSure:

Named among the Best Places to Work in Insurance by Business Insurance for four years in a row (2020-2023), SageSure is one of the largest managing general underwriters (MGU) focused on catastrophe-exposed markets in the US. Since its founding in 2009, SageSure has experienced exceptional growth while generating underwriting profits for carrier partners through hurricanes, wildfires, and hail. Available in 16 states, SageSure offers more than 50 competitively priced home, flood, earthquake, and commercial products on behalf of its highly rated carrier partners. Today, SageSure manages more than $1.9 billion of inforce premium and helps protect 640,000 policyholders.

SageSure has more than 1000 employees working remotely or in-office across nine offices: Cheshire, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; Houston, Texas; Jersey City, New Jersey; Mountain View, California; Marlton, New Jersey; Tallahassee, Florida; and Seattle, Washington.

SageSure offers generous health benefits and perks, including tuition reimbursement, wellness allowance, paid volunteer time off, a matching 401K plan, and more.

SageSure is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a workforce that reflects the spectrum of perspectives, experiences, and abilities of the world we live in. We recognize that our differences make us strong, and we actively seek out diverse candidates through partnerships with organizations, institutions and communities that represent various backgrounds. We champion belonging and inclusion for all identities, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, ability status, gender, and country of origin, striving to create a culture where all individuals feel valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

Our nimble, highly responsive culture nurtures critical thinkers who run toward problems and engineer solutions. We relentlessly pursue better outcomes by investing in the technology, talent, and tools that position us to succeed in demanding markets. Come join our team! Visit sagesure.com/careers to find a position for you.