Associate Designer

Overview: 

If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we’re hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking an Associate Designer to join our growing Design team. This early-career role is designed for someone looking to build a strong foundation in product design through hands-on experience across digital products, design systems, user research, accessibility, and cross-functional collaboration. 

The Associate Designer will work closely with senior designers, engineers, product managers, and other partners to help deliver thoughtful, user-centered solutions. Our Design team values collaboration, creativity, systems thinking, continuous learning, and high-quality execution. This role offers opportunities for mentorship, skill development, and increasing ownership as experience grows. 

What you’d be doing: 

• Support the design and delivery of user-centered digital experiences across SageSure products and applications. 
• Collaborate with senior designers, product managers, engineers, researchers, and other cross-functional partners throughout the product development lifecycle. 
• Create and refine user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and interface designs that improve usability, accessibility, and consistency. 
• Contribute to the expansion, maintenance, and application of SageSure’s design system and established design standards. 
• Participate in user research, design reviews, critiques, pair design, and other collaborative design activities to strengthen solution quality. 
• Develop a broad understanding of SageSure applications and customer experiences while supporting projects of increasing scope and complexity. 
• Advocate for accessible and inclusive design practices and apply established standards throughout the design process. 
• Collaborate effectively with remote and geographically dispersed teams and participate in periodic in-person meetings, workshops, planning sessions, and team events. 

We’re looking for someone who has: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, a related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and professional experience. 
• 0–2 years of relevant design experience, including internship, academic, freelance, professional, or other applied design experience. 
• Portfolio demonstrating design work such as user interfaces, workflows, prototypes, user experience projects, or design system contributions. 
• Proficiency with Figma as a primary design tool. 
• Strong attention to detail, including visual consistency, usability, and alignment with established design standards. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams. 
• Demonstrated curiosity, adaptability, and commitment to continuous learning and professional development. 
• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 10–15% for team meetings, workshops, planning sessions, business activities, and other in-person collaboration as needed. 

Highly preferred candidates also have: 

• Familiarity with established design systems such as Carbon Design System, Material Design, or similar frameworks. 
• Experience with design, research, prototyping, or collaboration tools such as Miro, Dovetail, Maze, Zeroheight, Storybook, Framer, or Webflow. 
• Exposure to user research, accessibility standards, inclusive design practices, or usability testing. 
• Familiarity with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or common frameworks and how they influence product design and implementation. 

Software at SageSure: 

Originally founded as a software and analytics business, SageSure's proprietary technology has always been a key source of competitive advantage. We offer agents and policyholders best-in-class, modern capabilities to quote and bind insurance, service policies, and submit and track claims. We operate a microservices-based SaaS platform and conduct a substantial share of our business through our API. Our software product, engineering, and operations teams set the bar for talent in our industry. We work remotely from numerous states across the country and are always looking for exceptional individuals to join us. 

We are continually innovating with modern tools and technologies, and we welcome new perspectives. An ideal candidate will have a passion for some of our key technologies and advocate pragmatic industry practices around availability, scalability, security, and automation. A cloud-based infrastructure, continuous integration and delivery, and a quality-first approach help us to better deliver software. A metrics-driven mindset has become part of our DNA and helps us make data-driven decisions. If you have interests across these domains, we want to help grow and foster them.