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Product Manager

Urban Jungle

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Posted over 30 days ago...

Join the revolution in insurance with Urban Jungle: Innovate, impact lives, and accelerate your career

Overview

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£50000 - £65000

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Oval, London

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Expires at anytime

Organisation summary

Urban Jungle is on a mission to disrupt the insurance industry by prioritizing customer experience, leveraging cutting-edge technology, and championing financial confidence. With a customer base exceeding 200,000, top Trustpilot ratings, and substantial funding, Urban Jungle is not only a rapidly growing UK business but also a celebrated startup workplace and a B-Corp certified, Carbon Neutral company. Join us at an exciting time of expansion and innovation.

Role Summary

  • Lead cross-functional teams to enhance the purchase and claims processes, launch new products, and develop tools for operational efficiency.
  • Analyze user needs, data, and conduct experiments to creatively solve business challenges.
  • Manage significant product areas, prioritize resources, and mentor other product managers.
  • Collaborate with senior management to drive the company's growth plans.
  • Design, develop, test, and launch features while managing cross-functional projects.

Role Requirements

  • Minimum of 4 years professional experience, with at least 2 years in product management.
  • Passion for transforming the financial industry; insurance knowledge is a plus but not required.
  • Experience with SQL, HTML/CSS, Python, or other programming languages is advantageous.
  • Demonstrated ability to build impactful products and use business data for decision-making.
  • Capability to manage and coach teams, or transferrable leadership skills.
  • Ambition, dedication, integrity, respect, and alignment with company values.

Application Process Details

  • Initial phone chat.
  • Video interview with the Product Director.
  • A 2.5-hour take-home task, followed by an in-person presentation and team meetings.

About our offer

  • Office-centric role with flexibility, based in Oval, London.
  • Salary range: £50,000 - £65,000 plus share options.
  • 25 days paid annual leave and public holidays.
  • Opportunities for rapid progression and real impact.
  • Development budget, access to a senior mentor, and comprehensive training.
  • Well-being support including therapy, yoga, and sports clubs.
  • Enhanced parental leave and return-to-work support.

About us

Urban Jungle is here to change the insurance industry for good.

We’re one of the fastest-growing businesses in the UK, and we’re taking on one of the biggest and most widely used categories in the world. Urban Jungle puts the customer at the heart of everything it does, uses the latest technology to make insurance simple, fair and affordable, and helps us give our customers much more confidence in their financial futures.

All of this has meant we’ve already been able to help more than 200,000 customers get better insurance and become one of the top-rated home insurance providers in the UK, rated Excellent on Trustpilot from over 9,000 reviews. We’ve raised over £30m in funding to date to help us with our mission.

We also have a huge focus on people and our planet. We’ve recently placed 1st in Tempo's 2024 award for best startup to work for, and came top 10 in the Deloitte Fast50. We’re also proud to be a certified B-Corp, and a Carbon Neutral company.

And the best bit? This is just the beginning.


About the role

Product Managers at Urban Jungle sit at the core of cross-functional teams, contributing in areas as diverse as improving the experience of our purchase and claims flows, to launching completely new products, to building amazing tooling for our operations team (and so much more).

Day-to-day, you’ll work to deeply understand user needs, analyse data and conduct experiments, tackle interesting business problems and find creative ways to solve them. You’ll have a massive impact on the business from day one.

You’ll also have real responsibility for a huge product area, collaboratively prioritising how we use our resources and managing and coaching other product managers in the team.

In this role, you’ll work closely with our Product Director, Toby, as well as getting lots of exposure to the rest of our senior team, who have previously led some of the world’s fastest growing businesses, as part of playing a pivotal role in achieving our company’s growth plans.


Here’s what you’ll get up to:

  • You’ll be tackling our biggest business problems from the get-go, working closely across various teams in the business, including insurance, operations, commercial and, of course, working very closely with our engineering teams.
  • You will be designing and scoping features to meet these goals. You’ll oversee their development, testing and eventual launch.
  • Once you’ve shipped key features, you’ll be expected to evaluate performance, suggest improvements, and advocate for changes to make our product better.
  • As well as being responsible for product in these projects, you’ll manage cross-functional projects, showcasing your skills in this area.
  • Of course, as a startup we’ll also expect you to roll your sleeves up and get involved wherever the company needs you.


You've read this far! Here's what we need from you:

  • At least 4 years professional experience, 2 years of which have been in a product role.
  • We are changing a huge financial industry - you are excited about being a part of this big opportunity (even if you know nothing about Insurance right now!) 
  • Bonus points if you’ve dabbled with SQL, HTML / CSS, Python or any other programming language. 
  • We’re looking for experience building world-class products end-to-end that have created loads of value for customers as well as delivering business results.
  • You’ll have the ability to think critically with experience in leveraging business data to drive results. 
  • You’re either already managing and coaching other Product Managers, or have transferable experience that will make you great at it.
  • You’re ambitious, and eager to progress quickly to grow alongside the company.
  • You apply yourself to everything you do, recognising the difference that makes to the business.
  • You treat everyone with integrity, respect and kindness - whether it’s your colleagues, our customers, or our partners.
  • You’ll be a champion of our values, and encourage others to be the same.

These requirements are a guide as to what we’re looking for, but if you don’t have all of the skills listed above, that’s okay! Please don’t let that hold you back from applying if the role excites you.


About the process

We have designed a process that aims to get the right candidate working here as quickly as possible. If things are moving too slow for you, tell us!

The process starts with an initial phone chat followed by a video interview with our Product Director. Then we’ll ask you to complete a take-home task which is timeboxed to 2.5 hours which you’ll present at an in-person interview, alongside meeting some members of the wider team.


About our offer

We’re taking an office-centric approach to work (with lots of flexibility built-in) and the team is based in Oval, London.

In addition to our positive, open working environment, you can expect the following benefits of working at Urban Jungle:

  • A starting salary of between £50,000 - £65,000*,  and share options that can increase alongside performance and growth.
  • 25 days paid annual leave, plus public holidays.
  • Rapid Progression. We’ll give you the opportunity to experience loads, and develop rapidly. You’ll get tons of responsibility from day one, and all the feedback, coaching and support you need to fuel your career growth.
  • Real Impact. You’ll work on big, interesting problems that will challenge you, and do so in a way that has a positive impact on people’s lives, the planet and our community.
  • A Clear Plan. We’ll give you the clarity on what we want to achieve, with the freedom and autonomy for you to decide how we get there.
  • The Best People. You’ll be surrounded by teammates who are exceptional at what they do, whilst being kind, honest people who champion our values.
  • A dedicated development budget, access to a senior mentor, and training on whatever you need to do your job well.
  • Well-being support.  We’re committed to supporting both physical and mental well-being through access to therapy, weekly onsite yoga, and subsidised sports clubs.
  • Enhanced parental leave, and support for parents returning to work.
  • All. The. Fun. We regularly organise awesome socials and have some vibrant team communities such as book club and foodies.

*If our advertised salary doesn’t suit your current expectations, just let us know.


About our commitment

Urban Jungle is an equal opportunity employer and fairness and respect are at the heart of who we are and how we work. We do not discriminate based on race, age, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or disability. We know that in order to build a truly successful business, we need a team of diverse individuals who can offer a variety of skills, experiences and perspectives.

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