[Remote] Product Director, Carrier Distributed Products

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ethos is a company focused on making life insurance more accessible and efficient through technology and data science. They are seeking a Product Director to lead the strategy and execution for their carrier distributed products, aiming to package Ethos capabilities into configurable products that carriers can deploy and improve. Responsibilities • Set vision and strategy for carrier distributed products, including packaging, modularity, configuration, and long term platform bets • Define the roadmap across distribution experiences, underwriting and requirements, servicing and case management, data and reporting, and admin tooling • Drive prioritization across reusable roadmap investments and carrier driven needs • Create a multi tenant and configurable product foundation: entitlements, feature flags, templates, configuration schemas, and safe customization patterns • Establish release, migration, and backward compatibility practices so carriers can adopt improvements without disruption • Define the operational model: support readiness, incident management interfaces, runbooks, and carrier facing SLAs • Lead discovery across carrier distribution leaders, operations, compliance, and technology teams to understand channel realities: independent agents, call centers, D2C, worksite, and embedded flows • Translate needs into product capabilities such as quoting and eligibility flows, pre fill, underwriting journeys, application UX, drop off recovery, agent tooling, and conversion optimization • Build feedback loops to continuously improve outcomes after launch • Create a repeatable carrier onboarding playbook: implementation phases, launch criteria, cutover plans, training, and documentation • Define carrier facing environments and tooling: sandboxes, test data, certification, monitoring access, and audit reporting • Partner with Implementation and Customer Success to reduce time to value and cost to serve • Manage and develop product managers and product leaders as the team scales • Set product operating rhythms: roadmap reviews, launch readiness, discovery standards, and decision forums • Communicate clearly to executives: tradeoffs, investment needs, timelines, and business impact Skills • 10+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex B2B SaaS or platform products from strategy through launch and iteration • 5+ years leading product teams or leading multiple product managers through multi quarter roadmaps • Demonstrated ability to build configurable products for enterprise customers, with clear boundaries for customization vs core roadmap • Strong product judgment and systems thinking, turning partner requirements into scalable primitives and modules • Comfort operating across technical and commercial stakeholders, including enterprise customers and executive leadership • Strong written and verbal communication, including product strategy docs, PRDs, launch readiness criteria, and executive updates • Data driven approach to measuring outcomes and driving continuous improvements Company Overview • Ethos makes getting life insurance instant and easy. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • Ethos has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 9 in 2025, 11 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 27 in 2022, 17 in 2021, 9 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job