Hybrid Senior Product Manager, Core Services

at Zego

• Job title: Senior Product Manager, Core Services
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Product Manager leading core services for insurance company Zego. Overseeing prioritisation and enhancements of backend systems to enable scalable insurance solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and prioritisation of initiatives to improve and rebuild our core services, ensuring they can scale with Zego’s growth.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear, deliverable solutions, balancing long-term vision with short-term delivery.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, data, legal and compliance teams to deliver robust backend services that enable exceptional and compliant customer experiences.
• Dive deep into technical detail to understand system dependencies, uncover risks, and make informed trade-offs.
• Partner with stakeholders across multiple business domains to align on priorities, manage competing demands, and deliver business impact.
• Measure success rigorously, setting KPIs to track reliability, scalability, and business outcomes, and using data to drive continuous improvement.
• Champion service excellence, ensuring our foundational products are resilient, compliant, and designed to support Zego’s long-term strategy.

Requirements

• Significant experience as a Product Manager in a technical or platform-oriented role, ideally with exposure to backend services or complex systems.
• Strong technical literacy: comfortable engaging with engineers on system architecture, APIs, and service design.
• Proven ability to work across multiple business domains, balancing diverse requirements and delivering solutions that serve the bigger picture.
• Excellent problem-solving skills: able to untangle complexity, manage dependencies, and create clarity where there is ambiguity.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the business.
• A track record of delivering impact in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• A self-starter mindset with ownership, accountability, and a bias for action.
• Experience working within insurance or financial services products.
• Experience working in a regulated environment, with a strong appreciation for embedding compliance into product design.

Benefits

• market-competitive salary
• private medical insurance
• company share options
• generous holiday allowance
• annual flexible hybrid working contribution