Technical Product Manager

Overview

We are seeking a Technical Product Manager to lead the strategy, evolution, and delivery of our Core Trading Platforms value stream. This role is accountable for maximizing the value delivered by shared technology platforms that underpin the Hiscox London Market trading ecosystem and support business outcomes across multiple value streams. Core Trading Platforms provide foundational capabilities on which business facing products and services are built, enabling stream aligned teams to deliver value safely, quickly and sustainably.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the platform vision, strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technology strategy and strategic priorities.
• Own the end to end platform product lifecycle, from discovery and delivery through optimisation, ensuring value is continuously realised.
• Act as the accountable decision maker for the Core Trading Platforms value stream, operating within agreed strategic and architectural guardrails and reporting progress, risks, and trade offs to leadership.
• Prioritise initiatives using value, risk, data, customer insight and platform adoption needs, translating business goals into clear outcomes and sequenced work.
• Partner closely with cross functional teams including Product, Technology, Data, Operations and Change to ensure shared understanding of priorities, dependencies, scope and success measures.
• Partner with business facing value streams to understand capability needs and ensure platform investments maximise organisational outcomes.
• Champion the value stream across the organisation, promoting outcomes delivered, securing alignment, investment and support, and ensuring change is embedded across people, process and technology.
• Be accountable for achieving and evidencing business value, establishing feedback loops, tracking outcomes and adapting priorities based on insight and performance data.
• Guide and coach Product Owners and delivery teams, supporting resolution of complex issues, sharing best practice, and contributing to consistent product ways of working.
• Manage complexity and interdependencies, understanding technology strategy, adjacent roadmaps and the needs of platform consumers to optimise resourcing, funding, collaboration and avoid duplication.
• Ensure Core Trading Platforms delivers reusable capabilities, services and technology foundations that enable stream aligned teams to deliver business value more effectively.

Skills / Qualifications

• Strong product management skills, including defining product vision, strategy and roadmaps.
• Proven experience in a Product Manager or similar role, owning products, platforms or value streams end to end.
• Experience working in cross functional environments with Technology, Data, Operations and Change teams, translating organisational objectives into measurable outcomes.
• Ability to prioritise work using value, risk, data and customer insight.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams and levels.
• Confidence in making decisions, managing trade offs and communicating risks and progress clearly.
• Analytical mindset, with the ability to use insight, performance data and feedback to inform decisions.
• Capability to manage complexity, dependencies and competing priorities across a changing environment.
• Coaching and guidance skills, supporting Product Owners and delivery teams to resolve challenges and adopt good product and agile practices.
• Clear communication skills, able to translate strategy into practical, actionable outcomes.
• Experience managing the full product lifecycle, from discovery through delivery and ongoing optimisation.

Diversity & Hybrid Working

At Hiscox we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture. We offer a hybrid working model that allows you to manage your own personal work life balance while maintaining collaboration and structure within the team.