Product Engineering Lead – Insurance

Kota is making insurance and retirement benefits as accessible as modern software. We do this across the Kota Platform - the world’s first fully integrated benefits platform and Kota Embed, our embedded insurance and retirement product for platforms. Our mission is to make insurance and benefits more accessible and delightful to this generation of employees.

Today, we power benefits for hundreds of companies and thousands of employees from some of the most exciting and progressive employers in Europe, like Carwow, Tines, Zoe, Remote, and many more.

Kota was started in 2022 and has raised €20m from Europe’s top technology investors, including Eurazeo, EQT Ventures, Northzone, Frontline, and angels, including Job Van Der Voort of Remote, Romain Huet, formerly of Stripe, now Open AI, and David Clarke, formerly of Workday. The companies our investors have previously backed or built include Spotify, Airbnb, Klarna, Truelayer, Snapchat, Workday, Personio, Workvivo, Pointy, Workable, Wayflyer, and more.able, Wayflyer and more.

We’re hiring a Product Engineering Lead to own the Insurance stream at Kota — the product that powers how employers offer and manage their group insurance benefits.

This includes health, dental, vision, critical illness, standalone life and income protection, and other risk-based coverage products.

You’ll lead a cross-functional team (backend, frontend, mobile, and design) to shape how insurers, employers, and employees connect through Kota. You’ll blend product intuition, technical literacy, and delivery leadership to make complex insurance products simple, transparent, and human.

This isn’t a traditional PM or EM role — it’s ideal for someone who’s shipped product before, understands both customer value and delivery trade-offs, and wants to run a small, autonomous team with real ownership.

• Shape and lead 6-week Shape Up cycles for new insurance features and provider integrations.

• Simplify insurer onboarding, plan setup, premium management, and benefit workflows.

• Lead design, engineering, and operations to ship fast, high-quality projects and improvements.

• Translate compliance and underwriting complexity into user-friendly flows.

• Coach product engineers and designers to make smart scope and delivery decisions.

• Experience as a founder, PM/tech lead, or product-engineering hybrid in a high-ownership environment.

• Familiarity with insurance, healthcare, or financial product architecture.

• Proven ability to lead discovery and delivery end-to-end.

• Clear communication and good product taste — balancing speed and quality.

• Comfort guiding a small, senior team focused on outcomes, not tickets.

• Care deeply: Our products are our story, we look at the details, go the extra mile to delight customers

• Integrity: We care deeply about our why and it won’t jeopardise our how

• Fearless: We exist because we decided to say no to the norm – now we do this everyday

• Raise the Bar: We push past good enough—expect more, move faster, and raise the standard

• Ownership: Ask why, do the work, get the data, solve the problem, be an owner

• Health Insurance via Kota (€1,600 toward a plan of your choice)

• Workplace Pension with matched contributions up to 5% via Kota

• 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

We 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.