Product Lead

Product LeadLocation: Ireland / UK - Remote firstType: Full-time, permanentAbout KotaKota is reimagining insurance and retirement

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for the modern workforce. Through our two flagship products, Kota Platform, the first fully integrated

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platform, and Kota Embed, our embedded insurance solution, we're making

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more accessible, valued and global.Today we power

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for tens of thousands of employees at Europe's most forward-thinking companies, including Carwow, Tines, Zoe and Remote. Founded in 2022, we've raised more than €20M from leading investors such as EQT Ventures, Eurazeo, Northzone and Frontline, as well as founders and executives from Workday, Remote, Personio and OpenAI.The RoleWe're hiring a Product Lead to own a product area at Kota. You'll set the vision and strategy, make the calls on what gets built, and lead the engineers who build it.

Product Leads managing their own engineers is unusual and it's deliberate: one person accountable for the product and the team shipping it.You'll start in Insurances, which powers how employers offer and manage group cover: health, dental, vision, critical illness, life and income protection. It's our most complex area, and the work is turning underwriting and compliance rules into flows an employee can finish in minutes.That won't be the whole of it. Our teams are loosely split between Insurances and Core/Finance, and people work across the problem set.

As we add products and move into new countries the areas will change, so we want someone adaptable and opportunistic who'll own whichever part matters most as we grow. The remit is broad with little structure around it, so it suits a high ownership drive.What You'll DoOwn the vision and strategy for your area, and make the product calls on what gets builtLead and grow a group of product engineers, coaching them on scope and delivery decisions rather than assigning ticketsShape and lead 6-week Shape Up cycles for new features and provider integrationsSimplify insurer onboarding, plan setup, premium management and benefit workflowsTranslate compliance and underwriting complexity into flows people completeWork across the whole business. Support, success, sales and operations all have a stake in what you ownHelp shape what the product areas become as we add products and enter new marketsShip fast at a high quality bar, and hold the team to it

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Product experience at lead, staff or principal level. Strong senior candidates are in scope if the rest lines upAn entrepreneurial streak. You've founded something, worked at an early-stage startup, or spent time in engineering before moving into productYou've owned the vision and strategy for an area, not just executed against someone else'sComfortable with fluid scope.

You've picked up an unfamiliar domain before and become useful quicklyGenuine cross-business collaboration. You've worked with support, success and sales, not only with engineers and designers with the occasional customer callYou come from an environment with a high quality bar. It usually shows in the product itselfClear, concise communication, spoken and written, focused on value and outcomes rather than processScale-up experience, roughly Series A to D.

Seed-stage experience on top of that is a plusComfortable managing people, or ready to startDomain experience. Fintech or Insurtech is the closest match to what you'll work on, then HR tech,

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, employee expenses or travel. Anything sold to an employer that employees then use. The business model matters more than the industry label: if you've had to serve both an HR buyer and the employees using the product, that's the experience we care aboutNot every box needs ticking.

We'd rather see someone strong on several of these and light on others than someone who technically matches everything.Our ValuesHave Integrity. We care deeply about our why and it won't jeopardise our how.Care Deeply. Our products are our story, we look at the details, go the extra mile to delight customers.Own Your Ship.

Ask why, do the work, get the data, solve the problem, be an owner.Raise the Bar. We continuously look to push past good enough. Expect more, move faster, and never stop raising your and the team's standards.Play to Win.

We exist because we decided to say no to the norm, now we do this every day.Kota

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Health Insurance via KotaWorkplace Pension with matched contributions up to 5% via Kota (country dependent)WFH stipend to support your home office needsGenerous paid time off, work hard and take the time you needAnnual company-wide offsite and dedicated team offsiteOur Hiring ProcessWe like to keep things simple and respectful of your time.Screening call (30 mins) with our talent team: your background, what you're looking for, and the practicalitiesCompetency interview (60 mins) with one of our Product Leads, covering how you work, what you've owned and how you make product callsTask session (60 mins) with our GM and one other, working through a real Insurances problem togetherCall with founders (30 mins) with our CEO and CTO: our vision, and your thoughts on itWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.Find more English Speaking Jobs in United Kingdom on Arbeitnow