Product Manager: Employee Management & Data

Location: Hybrid or Office (Leatherhead or Haywards Heath, with 1–2 days/week in office or travelling)

Salary: £65,000–£80,000

Right to work in the UK required

About Zest

Zest is a modern, cloud-native employee benefits platform built to help organisations attract, retain, and engage their people. We offer the most configurable and intuitive benefits experience on the market - enabling employers to automate administration, reduce costs, and deliver exceptional employee experiences. Our platform is trusted by some of the UK’s most forward-thinking employers and has been recognised as the Best Benefits Technology Platform.

We’re a lean, high-performing team with a passion for solving complex problems from first principles. We collaborate deeply across product, technology, sales, and operations to deliver solutions that truly delight our clients.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead our Employee Management and Data domain. This domain sits at the heart of our proposition - enabling seamless HRIS integrations, incredible people team experiences, powerful driven employee insights and AI driven support.

This role will be ideal for someone who thrives in complexity, can abstract and deconstruct problems into reusable solutions, and is passionate about delivering elegant, data-driven AI products that scale. It will require the successful candidate to blend strategic vision with a practical and hands on approach to delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Own product discovery and delivery across Employee Management and Data.
• Shape and prioritise a roadmap that includes:
• AI-powered insights and support tools for employers and employees
• Deep integrations with third-party platforms (via APIs and flat files)
• Development of public APIs and employee data services
• Complex employee data needs across multiple geographies and sectors
• Collaborate with product designers, business/data analysts and development teams to deliver full-stack product solutions.
• Inform and deliver the wider organisation's AI strategy.
• Work closely with agile development teams to bring features to life.
• Produce clear, concise product documentation for internal and external stakeholders.
• Support sales teams with technical insight for complex opportunities.
• Champion customer satisfaction and platform growth through exceptional product experiences.
• Work closely to implement the platform across other countries across the Group, with European travel required from time to time.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience in a product management role within a technology-led organisation.
• A strong growth mindset and the ability to synthesise complex problems into scalable, reusable solutions.
• Experience working with data-focused product capabilities that leverage AI to provide demonstrable client value.
• Exposure to LLM-based applications and how they interact with external systems.
• Understanding of prompt engineering, context injection, and tool orchestration.
• Experience working across end-user UIs, admin interfaces, and APIs.
• A compelling storyteller who can inspire clients, prospects, and internal teams.
• Familiarity with product management and analytics tools (e.g., Aha!, Mixpanel, Amplitude).
• A solid understanding of data structures and how they interface with front-end and back-end systems.
• Experience in HR tech, insurtech, or AI sectors is beneficial but not required.
• A track record of delivering impact at an organisational level — not just shipping features.