Senior Product Designer

About Accelerant:

Accelerant is revolutionizing specialty insurance with AI-driven technology, providing a cutting-edge SaaS platform that transforms 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. Our mission is to solve complex challenges by combining intuitive design and innovative technology with a deep understanding of the insurance industry. As we continue to scale, 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 lead user-centered design efforts from research to execution. In our fast-paced, startup-like environment, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to craft intuitive, impactful experiences that address real-world challenges. You will balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, ensuring designs are highly functional with pixel-perfect UI. You’ll contribute to our design system and play a key role in shaping the product experience from zero to one and enhancing existing features.

• Lead user research & discovery:Plan and facilitate interview-style user research and discovery in partnership with product management to uncover user needs from a variety of stakeholders to inform new feature decisions or enhance existing features.
• Drive design execution:Create high-fidelity UI designs with precision, ensuring intuitive usability, flexibility and accessibility adherence, that aligns across the platform experience. You love the design process of creating user flows, wireframing, high-fidelity pixel-perfect UI to prototyping.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops: Run collaborative sessions to gain alignment, extract insights, and refine design solutions. Lead design thinking workshops and help to guide, improve, and implement design and feedback processes.
• Innovate & iterate: Bring a startup mindset, experimenting with new ideas and iterating based on feedback and data.
• Contribute to a Design System: Build, refine, or maintain a design system to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Influential storytelling: Articulate design rationale clearly, influencing teams and stakeholders through compelling storytelling, supportive visuals and metrics.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work seamlessly with product managers, engineers, and other designers to bring ideas to life.
• Balance Strategy & Execution: See the big picture holistically while executing with meticulous attention to detail within a feature or project.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience: 8+ years in product design, with a track record of successful product launches.
• User research expertise: Hands-on experience conducting qualitative research, interviews, and usability testing.
• Design System knowledge: Experience building or contributing to design systems.
• Visual & interaction design: Strong skills in UI/UX, with a portfolio showcasing high-quality, data-driven designs.
• Workshop facilitation: Ability to lead structured workshops to drive alignment and gather insights.
• Startup mindset: Comfortable working in an agile, fast-moving environment with a collaborative, figure-it-out attitude.
• Storytelling & communication: Ability to present ideas effectively and inspire action and alignment.
• Metrics-driven thinking: Familiarity with measuring design impact through qualitative and quantitative metrics.
• Tools: Proficiency in Figma and other modern design tools.
• Appetite for innovation: Adopt emerging tools and leverage AI-driven solutions to boost creativity, efficiency, and collaboration. Sharing and materializing ideas that disrupt the insurance industry.

It’s preferred if you have one or more of the following:

• Experience in the insurance or fintech industry.
• Experience designing AI-powered products or data-driven applications.
• Background in process-driven and task-oriented application design.
• Strong prototyping skills, creating interactive, high-fidelity prototypes.
• Experience contributing to or managing a research repository.

Why join us? Accelerant cares about your well-being and offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your diverse needs:

• 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.

To apply, please contact [email protected]