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Full Time.\nAbout the Role\nEvery day, pet owners walk out of a vet's office having just said no to a treatment their pet needed, not because they didn't care, but because they couldn't afford it. Pawlicy Advisor exists to eliminate this problem. Pawlicy Advisor is a profitable venture-backed startup building the infrastructure that connects pet owners to the right financial protection for their pets, starting with the most trusted pet insurance marketplace in the US, distributed through thousands of veterinary practices nationwide. The company has delivered over 1 million unique quotes, has raised $19M+, has found product-market fit, and is now scaling. Pawlicy Advisor is hiring a Senior Product Designer to own design end to end: research, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and the design system. You will own the design of the marketplace experience that helps pet parents make one of the most important decisions they face, working 1-2 sprints ahead of a fast-moving engineering team that loves to build high quality front end experiences. This is a high-ownership role reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, on an outstanding team of five engineers, a data analyst, a senior product manager, and an engineering manager.\nWhat You Own\nDesign Execution\nWireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and design iteration for new features and experiments across the website.\nGathering feedback from internal stakeholders on new product features and resolving conflicting input.\nBuilding and managing the design system in close collaboration with the senior marketing designer.\nDesign QA for engineering: reviewing shipped work against designs before release.\nContent Ownership\nFirst drafts of UX copy in product: quote flow language, plan explanations, error states, and making insurance terms understandable for pet parents.\nEnsuring copy reviews are completed by legal and compliance.\nSupporting Pawlicy's brand development across product, site, and marketing assets.\nUser Research\nDeep competitive analysis of the pet insurance landscape and other marketplaces, feeding insights into the roadmap.\nUser testing for new product and feature development: talking to pet parents and veterinary staff, analyzing behavior, and translating findings intoProduct ideas and design decisions.\nWhere You Partner\nEngineering: handoff and design QA with a team that loves building high quality front end experiences, working 1-2 sprints ahead of them.\nProduct: user research and competitive analysis with the senior product manager.\nMarketing design: the design system and brand development in close collaboration with the senior marketing designer.\nLegal and compliance: copy reviews on insurance language, keeping it plain without losing accuracy.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nFirst 90 days\nDesigning 1-2 sprints ahead of engineering with a queue you defined yourself; nobody assigns the work.\nDesign QA is running: shipped work is reviewed against designs before release.\nCommand of the competitive landscape: pet insurance and marketplace patterns feeding the roadmap.\nFirst user tests with pet parents run, synthesized, and reflected in shipped designs.\nFirst 12 months\nThe design system is adopted by engineering, and accelerating feature velocity.\nQuote flow and plan language is measurably clearer, with insurance terms pet parents understand.\nProduct changes have increased increase quote to sale conversion at a statistically significant level\nResearch findings routinely change what gets built.\nCraft holds at a high bar with no design reviewer above you.\nRequirements\n5+ years of product design experience with a track record of significant ownership, ideally at an early stage startup or fast-paced environment.\nA strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design thinking, from research and strategy through polished, shipped UI.\nExperience owning or significantly contributing to a design system.\nStrong UX writing skills: you can draft clear, plain-language product copy.\nProven experience running user research and competitive analysis independently and translating findings into product decisions.\nDemonstrated ability to collaborate across functions: you have worked closely with engineers, marketers, and business stakeholders.\nLegally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.\nMust be based in the USA.\nPreferred: experience in insurtech, fintech, or consumer marketplaces. Extra points if you love animals and believe pet healthcare is a serious, underserved problem.\nHow You Work\nYou do your best work with real autonomy and define your own work 1-2 sprints ahead of engineering, with no design director above you.\nYou initiate projects yourself, from spotting the problem to shipping.\nYou hold strong opinions, loosely held: a clear point of view on how to solve user problems without being precious about it.\nYou push back, disagree, and align without it becoming political.\nYou thrive in a high pace environment and love owning your craft.\nYou use AI tools daily to compound the company’s output\nAI and the Hiring Process\nWe embrace AI at Pawlicy and our work still relies on what the humans bring to it.\nSo please leave the AI out of interviews and case studies. Prep with it all you like, but in the room, we want your thinking, your questions, your judgment. These stages exist so we can get to know you and how you'd work with our team. We're hiring you, not a model and it is you we want to see.\nTo be concrete: no AI assistants or chatbots on any device during interviews, and nobody else feeding you answers. Spell-check, autocomplete and notes you wrote yourself are all completely fine.\nIf it turns out AI was used where we've asked you not to, it may end your candidacy.\nIf any part of our process is a barrier because of how you read, write or communicate, email  before that stage and we'll talk through the options. The skills we're assessing stay the same; what changes is the format. Asking has no bearing on how we assess you.\nBenefits\nBase salary range: $165,000 - $200,000\nStartup equity grant.\nTop-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) employer contributions; flexible vacation.\nRemote-first within the United States.\nCareer Path\nThis role is the only product designer seat at a company of ~20 today, growing to 25-30 in 2027, reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, with a path to design leadership as the team scales. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in NYC, Pawlicy Advisor is a licensed insurance agency and the leading pet insurance marketplace in the US.\nIf you do your best work with real autonomy, thrive in a high pace environment, and love owning your craft, Pawlicy would like to talk. 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