Product Owner, Underwriting (London Market)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid working with approximately 2 days per week in the office.

Company

hirify.global is an international specialist insurer focused on distinctive insurance products and innovative solutions for the London Market.

What you will do

• Own and develop a complex, multi-stream product roadmap and backlog aligned with strategic objectives and OKRs.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into outcome-focused goals, clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and achievable sprint objectives.
• Lead discovery, delivery, adoption, workshops, Agile events, prioritisation, and dependency management across multiple teams and workstreams.
• Use data science, agentic AI, and automation to improve the receipt, prioritisation, and progression of underwriting submissions.
• Manage and motivate matrixed internal and external delivery teams, including third-party suppliers, while removing blockers and escalating risks.
• Partner with London Market stakeholders, present recommendations at governance forums, and coach less experienced Product Owners.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Product Owner in a similar underwriting role, delivering value through cross-functional teams in complex digital product environments.
• Experience owning and developing product roadmaps while balancing immediate delivery priorities with longer-term product vision.
• Ability to work in ambiguity, clarify complex problem spaces, balance competing priorities, manage dependencies, and maintain delivery standards.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including influencing and presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Customer-centric problem-solving skills and the ability to challenge the status quo.
• Experience using analysis techniques to understand current processes, identify root causes, elicit requirements, and design future-state solutions.
• Experience working in an Agile or iterative way, managing backlogs, and ensuring business value is prioritised, delivered, and embedded.
• Familiarity with OKRs, benefits tracking, and outcome-led delivery.

Nice to have

• Certified Agile Product Owner qualification.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar collaboration tools.
• Experience working with emerging technologies or data science.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment in a fast-paced London Market Change Management Team.
• Hybrid working with approximately 2 days per week in the office, combining office collaboration with flexibility and independence.
• Inclusive culture focused on diversity, creative problem-solving, challenging convention, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunity to contribute to high-profile AI-enabled products shaping how underwriters work.