Dave Decker, Director of Data Science Like many startups, Ethos faces a trade-off when it comes to product A/B testing between making decisions quickly and making decisions accurately. Furthermore, we are trying to drive convenience rather than engagement; ideally, a customer comes to our app, finds an appropriate life insurance…

Lawrence Ntim, Senior Product Designer & Kelly La Fleur, Product Designer At Ethos, the design team is tasked with creating experiences that make life insurance simple, accessible, and affordable for everyone. Traditionally, life insurance has been a long, arduous process involving medical exams and weeks of underwriting. Ethos is changing…

Ashwin Pattan, Software Engineering Manager The interview is the first step in an insurance application. It is the process of collecting all the required data from the customer for us to underwrite the application. The interview not only serves as a digital replacement for a traditional paper application, but also…

Gaurang Khetan, India Site Lead, Director of Engineering The Launch of Ethos India We are proud to announce that we have opened up a new Ethos center of excellence office in Bengaluru, India in the last couple months. At Ethos, we are always looking ahead — planning for our next stage of growth. As we…

Alexandra Folks, UX Researcher & Rachel Chen, Senior UX Researcher What is UX research? User experience (UX) research drives product development by applying statistical and behavioral data. It incorporates quantitative and qualitative research methods to uncover user insights, which lead to concrete product changes. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are valuable. Quantitative methods such…

Alan Lee, Software Engineer At Ethos Life, there’s a testing framework built in-house called Isenguard, and we’d like to introduce you to it to exemplify the ethos (ha!) of our Test team. FITTING INTO OUR CORE PRINCIPLES We know that testing increases the “good” at the expense of “cheap” and…

Eve Denison, Software Engineer “How on earth did you transition from being a psychotherapist to a software engineer?” This is a question I get often and I love telling people about this process! I am Eve Denison, a Software Engineer here at Ethos, and I am so excited to talk…

Harneet Kalra, Director of Program Management Enduring and successful startups are differentiated by many factors: a product solving a real problem, a delightful product experience, a stellar leadership team, and much more. At Ethos, on top of all these things, we are differentiated by our velocity. Velocity, or speed of…

Lani Oshima, Senior Product Manager At Ethos, the people who land on our site in search of life insurance coverage come from wildly disparate backgrounds and knowledge levels. Some folks come to us extremely knowledgeable and ready to get same-day coverage. Others don’t yet know the basics of whole life…