Founded by a group of industry visionaries and startup disruptors, DAIS is reimagining insurance by empowering agencies and carriers with a cutting edge software platform designed to handle the complex challenges of the industry.

DAIS is currently in stealth mode, but we’re looking for people who are curious, driven, and hungry for a challenge. DAIS will give you the room to take complete ownership of your work within an exciting startup culture that is designed to foster personal development. This is a place where you can collaborate freely and level up your skills.

Head of Product/UX

Mission:

The Head of Product/UX - in collaboration with the leadership team - is responsible for organizing and leading all aspects of the company’s product development, UX processes and the evolution of the DAIS product.  You will play a critical role in re-imagining insurance and delivering value to our customers. The Head of Product/UX reports to VP, Technology.

Responisbilities:

• Work with executive leadership in defining, communicating, and executing short and long - term product goals as articulated by a product roadmap aligned to the business and organizational strategy

• Organize, lead, manage, and grow the Product Owners and UX Designers

• Collaborate with the engineering teams to collect feedback on product improvements, develop and define future requests, define opportunities for user research and user testing, and create metrics for tracking product success

• Can be strategic as well as act as an individual contributor, knows how to write stories, acceptance criteria, maintain a backlog

• Comfortable to take on the role of Product Owner for an agile team if needed

• Evolve the department’s standards, policies, procedures, key performance indicators, and organizational structure to support department activity and growth.

Requirements:

• Experience building and managing teams of Product Owners and UX designers

• A servant leader with a proven ability to mentor direct reports and can subsequently build and manage a continuously growing/evolving team. Builds an environment where top talent enjoys and wants to work

• Previous experience working in an Agile product company

• An experienced, organized, and efficient leader with the ability to define priorities and focus on areas that add value. Is adept at designing the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work flow

• Posses a good understanding of design process, previous exposure to UX best practices, at the very least has some good insight into UX Design

• Experience working in a fast-paced growing software company

• Extensive experience with agile frameworks

• Knowledge of the Insurance industry is a plus