Special Projects ManagerZego · London

Special Projects Manager

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-16 London Fulltime Hybrid Insurance Superannuation
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 4,583 GBP–6,667 GBP/mo

About the Company

At Zego, we're on a mission to do the good thing, not the insurance thing. Insurance hasn't changed much in over a century. The way we live, work and travel has. We're building the real-time, AI-driven infrastructure that powers innovative insurance, so good drivers get cover that works the way they actually drive. We're not just updating insurance; We're leading the AI evolution in insurance. For us, AI isn't a line on a roadmap or a buzzword on a slide. It's our operating reality, and it's how we build products that back drivers instead of the old insurance playbook. We don't do things slowly, and we don't do bureaucracy. We back high-performance builders who want ownership, early responsibility and the chance to do the most career-defining work of their lives.

About the Job

This role exists to take on the problems that don't fit anywhere else. No two quarters will look the same. One might be launching a new product line. The next, building the framework and analysis that decides where we invest. Then designing an AI system that replaces a manual process, taking over a business unit and running it, leading a cross functional programme nobody else can unblock, or building the story we take to shareholders, investors and the Board. It's the fastest way to understand how a leading AI company actually works: tech, product, marketing, operations, finance, regulation. You'll work directly with the people who run each of them.

Role & Responsibilities

  • ● You take something ambiguous, scope it, build the plan, win the buy-in, deliver it, then either hand it over or run it.
  • ● You'll use quantitative and qualitative evidence to work out what's really going on, then make the call and defend it in front of the leadership team.
  • ● You'll design and build AI systems and workflows that take work off people's plates, in content, analysis, operations or reporting.
  • ● You'll turn complicated business reality into something a smart outsider can follow in ten minutes.

Requirements

Education

  • ● You're comfortable with numbers and with people, and can build a model and then sit with an underwriter, a regulator or a shareholder and be taken seriously in both rooms.

Skills

  • ● You've done something hard, such as building a business, launching a product, moving a number, or fixing a broken thing.
  • ● You have real AI fluency, having built your own tools, agents or workflows, not just used a chatbot.
  • ● You've worked somewhere genuinely fast, most likely a high growth startup, strategy consulting or similar, and you know the difference between impact and effort.
  • ● You have an instinct for ownership, and nobody will hand you a brief, a template or a team.
  • ● You have clear writing, clear slides, and clear thinking, and can communicate effectively in front of any audience from an engineer to the Board.
  • ● You work AI-first, using AI daily, and are curious, experiment fast, and take ownership of getting good quickly.