Senior Product Manager, Cuvva

• A proven track record in Product Management within a technical environment, this could be within a platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing teams etc
• Demonstrated experience in automation and operational efficiency, helping reduce manual effort and improve scalability
• A strong focus on system performance and reliability, with experience improving uptime, latency, or backend scalability
• A commercial mindset, knowing how to make decisions that reduce costs, optimise resource allocation, and improve profit per employee
• Enough technical fluency to hold your own in Engineering conversations and evaluate trade-offs between speed, scalability, and maintainability
• Curiosity and systems-thinking, someone who connects the dots between how our infrastructure works and what the business needs
• Confidence navigating ambiguity, using a blend of structure, collaboration, and insight to move forward
• A proactive belief in building healthy, inclusive teams, where learning, reflection and improvement are part of the rhythm

Desirable

• At Cuvva, we operate with three distinct, yet highly collaborative and cross-functional product teams
• As our new Senior Product Manager, Reporting to Product Leadership, we’ll be looking for you to join our Platform team to start off with
• Platform - Owners of the technical foundations that drive the business
• The Platform team enables other teams within the business to move faster, reduce costs and succeed
• Tackling some of the most complex challenges for the business, the Platform team maintains stability, whilst driving profit growth through automation
• Core - Dedicated to growing our market-leading short-term car insurance product, driving over £6 million in monthly sales
• As a cross-functional team, we focus on enhancing the user experience by deeply understanding customer needs, introducing new products and features to solve their problems, whilst continually optimising all aspects of the funnel
• New Ventures - Operating as Cuvva’s internal incubator, New Ventures explores high-potental opportunities that could become significant growth drivers for our business
• New Ventures is designed to look further ahead, balancing discovery and delivery while taking calculated risks on ideas that could transform our business
• Each product team autonomously owns their area of the Cuvva product
• Teams are made up of a Product Manager, cross disciplinary Engineers, and dedicated Product Designers & Engineering Managers
• Collaboration: Notion, Productboard, Shortcut, Miro, FigJam, Slack, Google Meet
• Research: Perplexity, Claude/ChatGPT, UserTesting, Typeform
• UI/UX design: Figma
• Prototyping: Figma , bolt.new
• Handoff & Engineering collaboration: Figma Dev Mode and proactive conversations
• As a Senior Product Manager at Cuvva, you’ll play a key role in driving the delivery and evolution of our Platform team
• Working closely with Engineers, Designers, and Data peers to build products that are technically sound, user-centred, and commercially impactful
• You’ll need more than just strong product instincts
• This role blends technical understanding, strategic thinking, and a calm, delivery-focused mindset
• You’ll comfortably hold your own in Engineering discussions, from scoping ideas and understanding trade-offs, asking the right questions, to generating solutions to reach the best outcome
• You won’t need every technical detail explained, but you’ll care deeply about how things work and the wider impact they create
• You’ll also need to bring to life a long-term platform team vision, though we have something in place, we want you to come onboard and evolve it, helping shape a roadmap that balances quick wins with scalable, strategic infrastructure decisions
• This means thinking ahead to enable growth, developer efficiency, and improved user experiences behind the scenes
• Data Engineering: Pipelines, ETL processes, database design and management
• Cloud Infrastructure: Principles of cloud platforms like AWS, infrastructure as code, cost efficiency and scalability
• Backend and Fullstack Development: APIs, systems architecture, integration patterns
• Mobile Development: Deployment considerations and platform nuances
• Tool Proficiency: Awareness of Git, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools and other DevOps enablers
• This role isn’t just about delivery, It’s about building the conditions for great work to happen
• That means having clear and concise communication, operating as a reliable and strategic partner to stakeholders, while maintaining a thoughtful and motivating presence within your squad
• You'll help shape not just what we build, but how we work together to build it
• Define success: Establish quantifiable goals that align the team with the success of the business, measuring progress and impact along the way
• Partner with Engineers: Scoping technical solutions, clarifying unknowns, and making smart, scalable decisions early
• Collaborate with Design and Data: Ensuring solutions are user-informed, insight-led, and aligned with our overall strategy
• Identify delivery risks: Spotting dependencies, proposing mitigations, and maintaining momentum
• Drive momentum: leading rituals with purpose, encouraging shared ownership, and helping teams stay focused on outcomes
• Communicate with clarity: Tailoring messages for both technical and non-technical audiences to keep everyone aligned
• Maintain clear, visible documentation: Capturing decisions, risks, and timelines across tools that support cross-team visibility
• Use practices like Agile or Scrum wisely: Not for the sake of process, but to genuinely support adaptability and impact
• Stay close to system-level thinking: Contributing to discussions around architecture and infrastructure evolution
• Ensure data-driven prioritisation: Using metrics like system uptime, cost per employee, and developer productivity
• Drive automation and operational efficiency: Identifying opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve consistency
• Maintain system reliability and performance: Making decisions that improve uptime, reduce tech debt, and support scale
• Monitor cost optimisation: Balancing technical ambition with sustainable growth and platform efficiency
• Foster a collaborative team culture: one that values learning, reflection, and shared success

• Initial chat with Product Leadership (60m)
• Technical interview & live challenge with Squad peers (90m)
• Founders chat with Founder & CEO (20m)

• Health, wfh and wellbeing budget
• Professional development budget, as well as time off for workshops, studying and courses
• One-to-one sessions with our Sanctus coaches, giving you a safe space to talk about your mental health
• Volunteer day - A chance for us to get out of the office and do some good!
• Enhanced parental leave and pay - it doesn’t matter if the Cuvva employee is the primary or secondary caregiver or adoptive parent
• Doctor Care anywhere, for online appointments, referrals & prescriptions
• 25 days of holiday a year (+ public holidays ) - this increases with each year you're at Cuvva!
• Flexible remote working (with a requirement of 3 days in the office per quarter). London area. WeWork offices in Hoxton.
• £100 a month towards your Cuvva car insurance!
• Cycle to work scheme and salary sacrifice scheme for electric car lease!

Total funding: $23.4m

Before companies like Cuvva, the most recent consumer-facing innovation in insurance was through aggregators such as Moneysupermarket. However, the experience of using these is not great. The industry is known for low levels of customer support, confusing policies and needing to create a new account every time you want a quote.