Strategy & Finance Associate

San Francisco, CA, United States

About Ethos

Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families. Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones.

We leverage deep technology and data science to streamline the life insurance process, making it more accessible and convenient. Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes! We’ve issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers, ushering the industry into the modern age. Our full-stack technology platform is the backbone of family financial health.

We make getting life insurance easier, faster and better for everyone.

Our investors include General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, SoftBank, and the investment vehicles of Jay-Z, Kevin Durant, Robert Downey Jr and others. This year, we were named on CB Insights' Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIn's Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco. We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families!

About the Role

Ethos is looking for an ambitious self-starter to join our Finance & Strategy Team! You will play a major role in supporting the development and execution of various strategic initiatives. You will use a combination of analytical, operational, and technical skills to evaluate key business problems (scale, efficiency, and quality) while considering multiple different stakeholders.

This role will have high visibility across the executive team and will require you to solve the most complex, interesting challenges of a rapidly-scaling startup. If you enjoy working in an environment that is fast-paced, analytically rigorous, mission-driven and impact-oriented, read on and get in touch!

Duties and Responsibilities:

Apply a data-driven analytical approach to evaluating priorities and initiatives across all workstreams

Evaluate key business problems / strategic initiatives and work with various stakeholders to turn recommendations into a reality

Work with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Operations, & Finance teams to improve growth and efficiency of the business

Partner with the insurance and product teams to develop new products and services; help assess customer needs, develop requirements, understand unit economics, and define sales/business development objectives

Qualifications and Skills:

A minimum of 1 to 4 years of relevant work experience in investment banking, consulting, and / or private equity / growth equity, and with strategic / operational experience at a high-growth technology company

Best-in-class excel skills and extensive experience developing insightful quantitative analyses, paired with strong critical thinking and sound business judgment

Ability to flex between high-level strategic thinking and deep analytical problem solving

Motivated self-starter with a track record of success and a proven ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks while hitting deadlines

Desire to own and drive projects from Day 1

Excellent communication skills and effective cross-functional collaborator

Exceptional attention to detail

SQL knowledge is a strongly preferred skillset

Able to come into the San Francisco office in a hybrid capacity (1-2 days / week)

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The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $102,000 -$137,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include applicable bonus, equity, or benefits.

You can find further details of our US benefits at https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.

We are an equal opportunity employer who values diversity and inclusion and look for applicants who understand, embrace and thrive in a multicultural world. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.

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