Head of Product Engineering for iptiQ EMEA L&H

About iptiQ

iptiQ is a risk tech start-up within Swiss Re Group. Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

iptiQ provides digital, bespoke and transparent L&H and P&C protection products in a B2B2C manner. Founded in 2014, we're transforming the way consumers buy insurance with a unique digital insurance engine which incorporates the latest technology with world-class underwriting capabilities. We build strong partnerships to sell insurance via trusted brands.

About the role

Glad you’re interested! We’re looking for a Head of Product Engineering to help building and leading a product engineering team responsible for shaping our digital landscape and change the way insurance is bought online. No more insurance talk that only a lawyer understands, we’re here to make a difference.

As the Head of Product Engineering, you’ll work in a multi-functional environment to design, implement and operate our product platform and build our greenfield insurance, customer-facing.

If you’re passionate about enhancing how we take business and product decisions and delivering awesome products, then read on.

Your day-to-day activities will include

- Build and shape highly capable and empowered engineering teams responsible for designing and implementing high-revenue products across our technology platform with a quick iterative approach and focusing on ability to scale features and business processes
- Promote engineering excellence and leadership across the board, focusing on effective cross-function collaboration and end-to-end responsibility, from rapid prototyping to delivery, ensuring simplicity, maintainability, and scalability of the implementations
- Design and foster the implementation of department-wide processes and best practices to ensure effective collaboration between engineering teams and a restless focus on effectiveness and rapid decision making enabled by technical alignment and data-driven approach
- Provide constant guidance, operational management, and leadership to set the engineering department on a track of continuous improvement and growth

This job offer is suitable for people who have been impacted by the invasion of Ukraine.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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