Product Owner, YuLife
Wellbeing business redefining insurance
Posted today
Wellbeing business redefining insurance
201-500 employees
Posted today
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help people to live their best lives by rewarding its members for living well.
Role
Who you are
- 2 to 4 years in a delivery-side product role: Product Owner, associate Product Manager, delivery manager or similar, ideally in a consumer app or gamified product environment
- Organised to a fault: you run a clean backlog, you sequence well, and nothing falls through the cracks
- Comfortable with agile delivery and the tools that support it (for example Jira), and confident writing clear user stories with solid acceptance criteria
- Hungry and high energy: you want to be around senior product people and learn fast. Energy matters as much as experience for this role
- A clear communicator with engineers: you know what to escalate and what to decide, and you keep stakeholders informed
- Genuinely curious about users and comfortable getting in front of them to understand their problems
What the job involves
- Our Game squad builds the gamified heart of the YuLife app: the mechanics, competitions, and reward loops that get hundreds of thousands of members moving every day
- We are hiring a Product Owner to drive delivery within the Game squad. You will own the squad backlog and turn a prioritised product roadmap into well-sequenced, buildable work that ships
- You will work shoulder to shoulder with a Lead Engineer who owns the technical side, partner closely with Design and Data, and report to the Head of Product, who will invest properly in your development
- It is a hands-on delivery role with real ownership of how work flows through the squad, and a strong seat from which to grow your product career
- Own and prioritise the squad backlog, turning roadmap priorities into clear user stories and buildable tickets with the Lead Engineer
- Run the squad's delivery day to day: standups, refinement, sprint or flow management, unblocking, and fast decisions on in-flight scope questions
- Manage the flow of smaller improvements and fixes alongside larger initiatives
- Coordinate releases and own launch readiness: QA, customer support briefing, rollout plan and live tracking in place
- Track delivery progress and feature performance after release, feeding what you learn back into the roadmap
- Get in front of customers regularly, at least once a month for your squad's surface, joining research sessions and running your own conversations so you break work down with real users and their pains in mind
- Reports to: Head of Product Team: Game squad, working alongside the squad's Lead Engineer
Application process
- We usually respond within a week
Salary benchmarks
Our take
YuLife wants to change the life insurance landscape, by gamifying health and wellbeing. Working with businesses and their employees, YuLife rewards people for their everyday healthy behaviours, encouraging users to complete activities like walking or meditation then rewarding them with air miles, vouchers, and gift cards from partners.
With over 85% of SMEs having no life insurance for their employees in place, YuLife also wants to streamline the process of purchasing insurance. Through the company, employers can offer membership as a perk. Users can then progress through levels, compete with colleagues and earn yucoin for healthy choices. The currency can be exchanged for rewards such as gym memberships and gift cards.
YuLife has experienced significant success in the UK, and is using this momentum to propel itself into global operations. It continues to launch new features, such as health insurance options, gamified training courses for brokers, and an AI-powered metric that assesses business health and wellbeing.
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Insights
76% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2022
$120m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$70m
SERIES B
Total funding: $207.6m
Company benefits
- Potential to earn share options
- 6x salary life assurance policy
- Income protection policy
- Access to the YuLife app (which includes a tonne of well-being rewards, discounts and exclusive offers as well as access to Calm and Fiit)
- £20 per month to a "be your best Yu" budget
- Unlimited Monthly professional coaching with More Happi
- OnHand Volunteering app
- £25 monthly budget with Learnerbly
- Financial coaching with Octopus Money coach
- Generous parental leave policies
- Remote working packing; includes laptop, desk, chair etc
- Contributory pension = 3% of basic
- 24 days Annual Leave + 1 ‘personal’ day (e.g your birthday, moving house anything else that is for Yu)
- Remote and flexible working
- Currently our lovely office in Shoreditch is available if people want (and only if they want) to use it
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Leadership
Jaco Oosthuizen
(MD (YuLife SA) & Co-founder)Since co-founding the company, has held the roles of Chief Wellbeing Officer, CPO and Chief Insurance Office before becoming MD. Previously, they were an Actuarial Analyst at Sage Life for 8 years, and Chief Exponential Officer at Exponential Ventures.
Jonathan Roomer
(Chief Customer Officer & Co-founder)Previously worked for 6 years at KPMG, first as Executive Advisor (Life Actuarial), and then as Early Stage Lead (KPMG Tech Growth) for 3 years.
Josh Hart
(CPO / CTO & Co-founder)Previously Chief Operating Officer at WhatSchoolNext and Digital Operations Advisor and Programme Director at Healthstar.
Sam Fromson
(COO & Co-founder)Previously worked for 5 years at Invoice Cycle, first as VP Business Development and Operations and then as Strategic Advisor for 4 years.
Sammy Rubin
(Executive Chair & Co-founder)Previously Co-founder and CEO at Policy Portfolio for 8 years, then at Vitality UK for 1 year.
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