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Senior Designer

Full Time · Design - 105 · On-Site

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

About the Company

Cover Genius is a Series E Insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee.

Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year. Our team and products have been recognized sed with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commits itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired 

Our People are not Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious 

About the Role

As a Senior Product Designer within our global Design team, you’ll help shape intuitive, elegant and scalable experiences across multiple problem spaces within our suite of products. You’ll work end-to-end, combining research, interaction, and high-quality visual design to create experiences that improve the way millions of customers protect the things they love.

You’ll work closely with your problem space team, collaborating with Product Managers, Engineers and the Director of Design to define user experiences that deliver measurable business and customer outcomes. This is a role for a designer who thrives in ambiguity, loves solving complex problems and balances strong craft with systems thinking.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead design projects within assigned problem space teams from discovery through to delivery.

  • Translate customer insights and business goals into user-centered, high-impact design solutions.

  • Partner with Product, Engineering and Content to prototype, validate and deliver design work that drives measurable results.

  • Contribute to and evolve our internal design systems, ensuring quality, scalability and accessibility across products.

  • Conduct or collaborate on user research and usability testing to validate design decisions.

  • Share knowledge and mentor others to support skill growth and consistency across the design team.

  • Champion customer empathy, accessibility and data-informed design at every stage of the process.

Skills & Experience

What you will bring

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in UI/UX design for digital products, ideally in SaaS, e-commerce or technology environments.

  • Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design thinking, interaction design and visual craft.

  • Proficiency in Figma with experience working within and contributing to design systems.

  • Demonstrated experience collaborating in agile, cross-functional teams, balancing user needs with business and technical goals.

  • Expertise in user research and testing, including planning, facilitation and translating insights into actionable design improvements.

  • Experience with AI-assisted design tools or workflows, and an understanding of how AI can enhance creativity, efficiency and personalization.

  • Proven ability to mentor and lead small design teams or initiatives, fostering collaboration and elevating design quality.

  • Strong visual design skills with the ability to produce elegant, on-brand and accessible interfaces.

  • Working knowledge of HTML and CSS for effective collaboration with engineers.

What you have

  • Passionate about creating human-centered digital experiences that blend usability, visual appeal and business impact.

  • Excellent communicator who can articulate design rationale clearly to non-design stakeholders.

  • Self-starter with strong time management and ability to manage multiple priorities independently.

  • Collaborative mindset and openness to feedback, with a desire to learn and mentor others.

  • Curious and adaptable, comfortable designing within complex systems and constraints.

  • Accountable and results-driven, aligning design work with broader OKRs and strategic goals.

Why Cover Genius?  

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?  

• Flexible Work Environment - Our teams are hybrid. We work from home on Wednesdays and Thursday and collaborate in office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times. With the added benefit of a Wellness day a month

• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.

• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.

• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may collect, store and process your personal data for recruitment purposes. To ensure a fair evaluation, we may use AI to assist in sorting applications, but all final decisions are made by our hiring team and no candidate dispositions are automated. We will keep your information on file for three years from the date of your application.  For detailed information about how we handle your data and our use of AI, please review our full Privacy Policy.

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