Senior Product Manager

Brightwater Recruitment; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightwater Recruitment is working with a leading global specialty reinsurer seeking a Product Manager to support their growing product discipline. You will work across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and driving agile practices.

The ideal candidate is details-oriented, excels at documentation, facilitates sprint planning, and collaborates with stakeholders. You will coach teams, refine requirements, and help deliver measurable business outcomes in a fast-paced insurance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field.
• Experience as Product Manager/Owner or Scrum Master.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; facilitation of meetings across groups.
• Strong understanding of software development processes.
• Strong organization and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence.
• Analytical mindset for KPI alignment and prioritization.
• Ability to learn reinsurance knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to standardise agile processes across teams.
• Coach teams on sprint planning, story-writing, estimation, and continuous improvement.
• Document product ideas with objectives, outcomes, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Refine requirements into actionable tasks with stakeholders.
• Decompose high-level ideas into detailed sprint tasks.
• Update stakeholders on progress, risks and opportunities.
• Support agile ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, backlog refinement, retrospectives.
• Help teams identify impediments early and resolve them.
• Collaborate with product leadership to prioritise tasks by KPI relevance and value.
• Participate in retrospectives to gather process insights.
• Influence adoption of retrospective learnings across teams.

Skills

Agile methods

Communication

Organization

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

My client is a leading global specialty reinsurer, part of a highly profitable international insurance group with operations across North America, Europe and beyond. They provide reinsurance across a broad range of property, casualty and specialty lines to insurers worldwide. Known for a flat, collaborative culture where senior leaders stay close to their teams, they offer the chance to shape how a growing product function works, with the backing of a financially strong business.

About the Position

My client is looking for an enthusiastic and detail-oriented Product Manager to support their growing product discipline. You'll work across multiple teams, ensuring consistency, alignment with strategic goals, and continuous improvement of our agile practices. You will play a pivotal role in documenting requirements, facilitating effective communication, supporting sprint planning, and driving agile best practices.

The ideal candidate is an ambitious professional who thrives at the intersection of product management and agile delivery. You are highly organized with excellent attention to detail. You enjoy working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders at all levels. You have a genuine interest in agile methodologies and are eager to learn best practices while driving continuous improvement. You're proactive by nature, able to identify opportunities for improvement independently, and passionate about delivering measurable business outcomes aligned with strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities for standardising agile processes across multiple teams to improve efficiency and predictability.
• Promote agile best practices through coaching team members on effective sprint planning techniques, story-writing standards, estimation methods, and continuous improvement approaches.
• Clearly document product ideas and features, including objectives, expected outcomes, user stories, acceptance criteria, and alignment with strategic KPIs.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders and multiple scrum teams to refine requirements into actionable tasks.
• Assist in decomposing high-level product ideas into detailed tasks suitable for sprint execution.
• Regularly update stakeholders on progress, risks, and opportunities related to product initiatives.
• Support multiple teams in agile scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/demos, backlog refinement sessions, and retrospectives.
• Help teams identify impediments early and collaborate proactively to resolve them.
• Collaborate closely with product leadership and development teams to prioritize tasks based on KPI alignment, business value, dependencies, and resource availability.
• Actively participate in retrospectives across teams to gather insights on process improvements.
• Influence adoption of retrospective learnings across scrum teams.

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Relevant experience in roles such as Product Manager/Owner, Business Analyst, or Scrum Master.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable facilitating meetings across diverse groups.
• Strong understanding of software development processes
• Strong organizational skills; ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, and Confluence.
• Analytical mindset for assessing task feasibility, prioritization decisions, and KPI alignment.
• Ability to learn reinsurance-specific knowledge

Remuneration Package

Attractive and comprehensive package on offer in line with experience.

Contact

Please contact Charlie Bigger on 01 5927867 or email [e-mail].