Principal Product Manager
Cuvva
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Farringdon • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £95,000 - £111,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead structured discovery across the New Ventures portfolio: Identifying and scaling opportunities rooted in market insight, competitor positioning and underwriting feasibility, shaping them into testable hypotheses.
- Own the Annual insurance roadmap: As an early stage product line at Cuvva, continuously validating assumptions about segmentation, pricing, and distribution.
- Balance growth and risk: Articulate trade-offs between revenue ambition, pricing competitiveness and underwriting realities with clarity and confidence.
- Drive disciplined decision-making: Ensure initiatives are robust, well-evidenced and decision-ready before significant investment.
- Engage deeply with pricing and underwriting: Treat pricing not as a downstream input but as a core product lever, working closely with Pricing and Underwriting to understand how risk models shape what we can offer and where we can compete.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Engineering, Design, Data and commercial stakeholders to bring focus and pace to complex initiatives.
- Communicate trade-offs and recommendations: Confidently articulate these at leadership level, building trust through clear, well-evidenced reasoning.
- Maintain visible product documentation: Ensure decisions, priorities and progress are clearly captured across tools to support alignment and transparency.
Requirements
- A strong discovery instinct: you’re the person who asks ‘how do we know this is true?’, before asking ‘how do we build it?’, and bring structure and pace to finding answers
- Experience within insurance, lending, credit or other regulated finance environments where you can’t simply acquire more customers without considering risk appetite and portfolio health
- A successful track record of launching or incubating new product lines (0→1), turning ambiguous opportunities into validated, commercially grounded initiatives
- Confidence operating in ambiguous environments while bringing structure, clarity and forward momentum
- A strong commercial mindset, understanding how product decisions influence revenue, margin, risk and long-term value
- A deep curiosity about markets, customers and competitors. You’re the person who spots an opportunity in an industry report or a conversation with a customer, and brings it back to the team without prompt
- The instinct to move quickly, test cheaply and treat early-stage work with the same urgency as scaling work, not waiting for perfect information before making progress
- Experience operating at Senior, Lead or Principal level within a product-led scale-up
Benefits
- Very flexible WFH set up, we only ask folks to come in a couple of times a month for team strategy days and socials - but of course, you're more than welcome to come in as much as you like!
- A four day work week (Fridays off!)
- Transparent salary model and bands for all roles (without sharing anyones individual salary of course!)
- 20.5 days of holiday a year + public holidays - rising with each year at Cuvva 🌞 (holidays have been prorated based on our 4DWW)
- Quarterly team socials and company events
- Private medical insurance with Bupa
- Professional development budget
- Health, WFH and wellbeing budget 🧘♂️
- Increases to all allowances year on year
- Enhanced parental leave and pay
- Cycle to work scheme
- Mental Health and Coaching Support - We offer free and confidential access to comprehensive mental healthcare and coaching through Oliva. Giving you the space to talk to a coach or therapist about anything you like.
- Hundreds of perks and discounts with Perkbox
- £100 a month towards your Cuvva car insurance
- Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join the Cuvva team 💸
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
product managementmarket analysispricing strategyunderwritingrisk assessmentdata analysisproduct developmentcommercial strategydecision-makingproduct documentation
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationcuriosityproblem-solvingadaptabilitystrategic thinkingconfidencestructured thinkinginitiative