Product Lead

About this role

Product Lead Location: Ireland / UK - Remote first Type: Full-time, permanent About Kota 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. The Role We'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 Do 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.