Product Designer - London, United Kingdom - Pacific Asset Management, LLC

Description

Underwrite Me (UMe) is looking to take its strong product portfolio to the next level, and looking to bring on board a talented product designer to help us in our journey to disrupt the life insurance industry.

You will be a key member of our product teams, working with three different products (Marketplace, Decision Platform and our Data offering). You will be working with a strong team of Product Managers, Product Marketers, External Researchers, Engineers and Data Scientists. Team Outputs/Objectives
As a product designer, you will deliver online and offline design projects to support the different product teams needs. You will provide visual systems, tools and communication that are simple, elegant and flexible to support our different regions globally (Europe, North America, Asia Pacific). Through regular engagements with internal stakeholders and customers, you will develop an understanding of the wants and needs of our users to support our quest to simplify complex business problems into a coherent, end-to-end customer experience. You will test your design, prototype and implementation on a regular basis and identify the best approaches to deliver the team design and product goals. Alongside your primary activities as Product Designer you will also be involved in establishing and cultivating a healthy and modern design process, and researching and showcasing knowledge of the industry's latest trends and technologies.

What Will I be doing?

Working with the Product Teams, you will be involved in the full design lifecycle from user research, ideation and design execution. This will require elements of information architecture, interaction design and visual design as well as building design libraries, helping to establish UMe's design process.

Partnering with Product Managers, Engineers and Data Scientists to define problems, solutions, user stories, user flows, customer journeys, mock-ups, prototypes and establish product direction. You will use your strategic product thinking and your design technical ability to improve our current product portfolio and support the development of new products, helping to identify opportunities, defining goals and assessing impact on customer experience.

We're Interested in candidates who...

Have 5+ years as a Product Designer, and a versatile portfolio showcasing deep interaction and problem solving skills for new products as well as improving existing legacy products. -

Have FinTech/InsurTech experience, with a varied industry background knowledge (B2B, B2C & SaaS).

Are experience building Design Systems and component libraries -

Have a strong visual design and interaction design skills, with a passion for high quality finish.

Are comfortable designing for responsive products (desktop and mobile).

Have meticulous attention to detail and excellent understanding for design principles.

Are comfortable in an agile environment which is challenging, transparent and focused on delivering high quality, valuable and viable products.

Have experience of working in an Agile development framework

About UnderwriteMe

UnderwriteMe is an Insurtech software business and subsidiary of Pacific Life Re (PL Re), a global life and pensions reinsurance firm. We have a vision to help everyone purchase protection insurance by using data and disruptive technology to transform our partners and markets in order to make their underwriting processes as quick and efficient as possible.

Our core products are:

• a best-in-market Underwriting Rules Engine which can be used to automate any structured data within the underwriting journey, and which is sold in the UK & Ireland, Asia-Pacific and North America

• the Protection Platform, an end-to-end quote and buy marketplace for Protection in the UK

Working for UnderwriteMe

Joining UnderwriteMe means being part of a technology company that is committed to bringing a fresh and dynamic approach to insurance. You'd be working with a team of highly technical experts made up of people with backgrounds in software, fintech, and insurance. Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step.

Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and wellbeing initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events, and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

As part of our commitment to accessibility for all, UnderwriteMe will, upon the request of the applicant, provide accommodation during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs, and we will consult with you to ensure suitable accommodation is provided.

UnderwriteMe is transforming the life insurance industry through technology by bringing Insurers, Intermediaries and Customers closer together in the marketplace. We recognise the need to change the life insurance application journey from a complicated, inefficient experience to one that makes the buying process easier and faster for customers and advisers alike. Founded in 2012, our journey started with the Underwriting Rules Engine and Protection Platform in the UK, and we have now grown to become a leading InsurTech provider across Europe, Asia and Australia.

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