Product Lead

Kota

8d • Remote

About The Position

Kota is reimagining insurance and retirement benefits for the modern workforce. Through our two flagship products, Kota Platform, the first fully integrated benefits platform, and Kota Embed, our embedded insurance solution, we're making benefits more accessible, valued and global. Today we power benefits 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.

Requirements

• Product experience at lead, staff or principal level. Strong senior candidates are in scope if the rest lines up
• An entrepreneurial streak. You've founded something, worked at an early-stage startup, or spent time in engineering before moving into product
• You've owned the vision and strategy for an area, not just executed against someone else's
• Comfortable with fluid scope. You've picked up an unfamiliar domain before and become useful quickly
• Genuine cross-business collaboration. You've worked with support, success and sales, not only with engineers and designers with the occasional customer call
• You come from an environment with a high quality bar. It usually shows in the product itself
• Clear, concise communication, spoken and written, focused on value and outcomes rather than process
• Scale-up experience, roughly Series A to D. Seed-stage experience on top of that is a plus
• Comfortable managing people, or ready to start
• Domain experience. Fintech or Insurtech is the closest match to what you'll work on, then HR tech, benefits, 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 about

Nice To Haves

• Not every box needs ticking. We'd rather see someone strong on several of these and light on others than someone who technically matches everything.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision and strategy for your area, and make the product calls on what gets built
• Lead and grow a group of product engineers, coaching them on scope and delivery decisions rather than assigning tickets
• Shape and lead 6-week Shape Up cycles for new features and provider integrations
• Simplify insurer onboarding, plan setup, premium management and benefit workflows
• Translate compliance and underwriting complexity into flows people complete
• Work across the whole business. Support, success, sales and operations all have a stake in what you own
• Help shape what the product areas become as we add products and enter new markets
• Ship fast at a high quality bar, and hold the team to it

Benefits

• Health Insurance via Kota
• Workplace Pension with matched contributions up to 5% via Kota (country dependent)
• WFH stipend to support your home office needs
• Generous paid time off, work hard and take the time you need
• Annual company-wide offsite and dedicated team offsite

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed