Senior Product Manager (Model Developer Experience)

Product Management at hyperexponential

Our Technology department is a melting pot of some of the brightest (and kindest!) engineers and product managers in the industry.

The level of complexity of hx Renew requires a highly technical, true engineering mindset so an output of this is a deeply creative, innovative environment where we push the technological boundaries of what’s possible.

You will report to the Product Lead, and work closely with a product engineering team. We always have more hard product problems than we have time to solve so this is a position with plenty of growth opportunity as we continue to expand!

Your Mission

We need a technically-minded Product manager who can take us to the next level when it comes to the developer experience we provide actuaries in our core platform: hx Renew. We’ve got big ideas on how we can leverage the latest technologies across the whole model development lifecycle and we expect AI to play a key role. From ways of working on the codebase, managing libraries, to testing and deploying; there will be some big technical challenges and there’s plenty of room for you to make your own mark and establish a new bar for what actuaries should expect from the platforms they use to build out their models!

Key Responsibilities

Note: hx is still a relatively early-stage business, and our culture prizes initiative highly - as such this section is a good indicator of your role, but the list isn’t exhaustive.

• Understand and represent our users’ needs - creating personas and mapping user journeys to our flagship product, hx Renew.

• Understand problems and opportunities through data, user research, competitor analysis running experiments, and interactions with the business.

• Deliver against a wider product vision, strategy and roadmap - executing with a dedicated cross-functional end-to-end product team.

• Plan how best to approach delivering maximum impact both within a sprint and over the longer term using the resources available.

• Co-ordinate across customers and hyperexponential to deliver from idea to implementation to launch - communicating the value to our users throughout the process

• Create and manage your backlog, balancing strategic, customer, and internal work.

• Work iteratively, using data to assess and refine your decisions.

• Work collaboratively, leveraging your skills and the skills across the wider team to design solutions that solve tough technical challenges.

Experience and Skills

hx is far less interested in counting years over evidence of delivery, and our requirements reflect this.

The right person for this role will need:

• Proven experience working as a Product Manager with a track record of successful product delivery in technical products (ideally at a fast-scaling B2B SaaS company).

• Demonstrable experience working with a technical team with a highly technical product or service within its core responsibilities.

• A strong understanding of modern developer tooling (e.g. modern IDEs, Git, testing frameworks, SSH), the trends across the industry, and the core needs of software developers at different stages in their careers.

• A highly collaborative way of working with a heavy emphasis on teamwork and leading through influence; you empower teams to deliver the best solutions to problems and opportunities.

• A self-starting attitude: you enjoy managing your own time and work, within a high trust and high accountability, but high-support environment. You proactively drive your own personal development and stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and challenges.

Bonus points for:

• Past experience building or leveraging AI technologies.

• Past experience in a software engineering role utilising developer tooling, particularly with JavaScript or Python.

• Community contributions through meet-up/conference talks, blogs or open-source Insurtech or fintech experience.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary + share options

• £5,000 for individual and group training and conference budget

• 25 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holiday days (33 in total)

• Company pension scheme via Penfold

• Mental health and therapy provision via Spectrum Life

• Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno

• Private healthcare insurance through AXA

• Top-spec equipment (laptop, screens, mechanical keyboards, etc)

• Regular remote hackathons, lunch & learns, socials and games nights

• Team lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, fun office @ The Ministry

• Huge opportunity for personal development and mastery as we grow together!

What’s Next?

• Initial call with our Talent team to begin the process.

• In-depth interview with your future Product Lead.

• Demo of our SaaS product 'hx Renew' with Product Managers

• Presentation skills assessment with panel including Product Lead and Engineering Manager (Founding Engineer)

• Values interview

• We offer!

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