Senior Product Designer
About Accelerant:
At Accelerant, we’re revolutionizing specialty insurance with cutting-edge technology and AI-driven solutions, delivering a state-of-the-art SaaS platform that redefines how the industry connects, collaborates, and grows. Our platform empowers Members (MGAs) and Risk Capital Partners to unlock new opportunities, drive unparalleled growth, and seamlessly transform how they connect and collaborate. By combining intuitive design, innovative technology, and a deep understanding of the insurance industry, we’re solving complex challenges with clarity and simplicity. As we grow, we’re looking for a talented Product Designer to join us and help shape the future of insurance. Learn more about our values.
About the role:
As a Senior Product Designer at Accelerant, you will play a key role in crafting innovative, user-centered solutions that drive the success of our cutting-edge, AI-powered SaaS platform. You’ll lead design initiatives, collaborating closely with designers, product managers, and engineers to deliver intuitive, impactful experiences that solve complex, real-world challenges for our customers. This is an opportunity to leverage your expertise, influence product direction, and contribute to a platform that is transforming the specialty insurance industry. Your work will have a tangible impact, helping to shape the future of our products and elevate design excellence across the organization.
In this role, you’ll:
* Build positive, collaborative relationships with fellow designers, product management, engineering, marketing, and the broader Accelerant team to drive our design vision and strategy forward.
* Partner with product management to conduct user research and discovery, gathering valuable insights to inform and guide the product development process.
* Work within empowered agile teams to discover, design and deliver valuable new product capabilities that meet the needs of our users and exceed their expectations.
* Apply strategic thinking to visualize ideas and concepts and communicate them effectively and compellingly for internal and external stakeholders.
* Develop high-quality visual and interaction designs, including wireframes, interactive prototypes, and detailed design specifications.
* Lead design thinking workshops and help to guide, improve, and implement design and feedback processes.
* Contribute to the development of the design team's processes, culture, design system, and standards.
* Show strong initiative and use facilitative leadership skills to achieve the best outcomes.
* Adopt emerging tools and leverage AI-driven solutions to boost creativity, efficiency, and collaboration.
At a minimum, we’d like you to have:
* Expert knowledge of the end-to-end product design process, demonstrating a command of product strategy, distilling the jobs to be done for a given user, journey mapping, wireframing and prototyping, user testing, and high-fidelity visuals.
* The ability to craft beautiful designs and delightful, useful, and usable information-rich experiences; you have strengths in visual design, interaction, and product design.
* Ability to translate complex AI concepts into user-friendly experiences.
* Deep experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working with cross-functional teams, including development and product management.
* Excellent communication and storytelling skills; you have the ability to help your team and stakeholders understand the “why” behind your design rationale.
* A strong sense of initiative - be proactive, able to drive results and identify opportunities to improve within the team and organization.
* Proven experience designing interactive data visualizations with a strong understanding of best practices for clarity, usability, and storytelling with data.
* Proficiency in design tools such as Figma.
It's preferred if you have one or more of the following:
* Strong experience conducting discovery research, facilitating workshops, and contributing to or managing a research repository.
* Experience with designing process-driven and task-oriented applications.
* Experience creating user-centered designs for AI and machine learning products that transform complex data into actionable insights, power workflows, and enable intuitive interactions through conversational AI and LLMs.
* Strong prototyping skills with the ability to create interactive, high-fidelity prototypes that effectively communicate design concepts, workflows, and user interactions.
* Experience contributing to and maintaining a design system.
* Insurance industry domain knowledge.
Enjoy our comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your diverse needs and support your well-being:
* Work-life balance: We believe that taking time to rest and recharge makes us all better. That’s why we offer flexible time off and encourage our team to take the time they need to prioritize their health and well-being.
* Health and wellness: We offer high-quality health, dental, and other benefits to ensure our team members have access to the care they need.
* Remote work: Work where you’re most productive and fulfilled. This position is open to remote candidates across the U.S., Canada, and the UK, who have the flexibility to work with our teams distributed across Europe and North America. Most cross-team collaboration happens in the mornings of the Eastern Time Zone.
* Travel: We value face-to-face connections and believe that in-person interactions can enhance collaboration and build stronger relationships. Travel is a small part of your role, with opportunities to connect with your team and our Members in-person.