Work at Cytora
Everything you need to know about Cytora to see if it is the right fit for you.
Overview
About Cytora
Cytora is leading the digitisation of commercial insurance with its AI-enabled risk platform. With Cytora, insurers such as Allianz can better digitise context and unstructured data, and therefore measure risk with no extra effort. With Cytora, companies can absorb higher volumes of risk, increase their written premiums while reducing expenses, and shorten time-to-quote. At the end of 2025, Cytora was successfully acquired by Applied Systems to help increase insurance AI across each risk lifecycle stage.
Company Details
- Category
- Fintech
- Locations
- UK
- CEO
- Richard Hartley
- Website
- cytora.com
- Social
- LinkedInTwitter
Why Join
Our Take
Do you want to work alongside some of the smartest ML, AI and software engineers in a supportive environment? Do you want to have a global positive impact on an essential insurance industry, want to truly learn as much as possible and sharpen your skills? Founded in 2014 in Cambridge, we believe Cytora is the perfect company if you want to work in one of the leading digital risk processing platforms in the world. With Cytora, global insurers such as Allianz, Beazley, and Chubb can digitise risk data at scale, turning unstructured information into structured, decision-ready formats. This helps them be more specific in measuring risk and providing insurance they feel comfortable with. In case you want to help the insurance industry measure better and more efficiently while working with some of the smartest people in the space, then Cytora is the place to be.
What to Expect
Employees
Founded in
Headquarter
Female Employees
Mission
Company Mission
To enable commercial insurers to become digital-first.
Problem They Solve
Commercial insurance work is highly manual and administrative, rather than primarily risk evaluation. Underwriters (people who price risk) spend almost as much time entering data as they do pricing and assessing risk. In this way, many insurers cannot scale to higher volumes of risk without much higher costs.
Who their customers are
Cytora serves commercial insurers, brokers, MGAs, and reinsurers—particularly those underwriting large commercial risks (average premium £500k+) or digitally transforming their underwriting processes.
Long-term vision
Cytora's vision is that all commercial insurers adopt digital risk flows, enabling them to raise premiums without increasing expenses and thereby benefiting the entire industry.
Team
What Employees Say
"The team at Cytora is unparalleled in ambition and ability. Work feels like company building; it's a constant learning experience. The company culture is predicated on honest, critical feedback. It's a place where things rarely get heated and everyone's got your back. If you prove your value to the company, no limits are put on the areas of the business you can contribute to."
Leadership
The Co-Founders, Aeneas Wiener (CTO) and Richard Hartley (CEO), have been driving Cytora’s success since its founding in 2014.
Founder-led?
Yes, this company is still led by its founder(s).
Do I Feel Safe at Work?
We believe Cytora is the perfect place to feel safe while tackling highly technical tasks. Cytora culture encourages taking action, even if it means failing and learning faster than talking or speculating. You are allowed to fail, as long as you take actions and learn from them. In Cytora's culture, they truly want you to succeed, giving you the power to take ownership and help you overcome obstacles.
Work Reality
Onboarding
From day one, you will have complete access to all teammates and technology, so you can learn as quickly as possible. Their goal is to be as transparent as possible, helping you succeed. You can expect to have a big learning curve by working in this fast-paced environment. Expect to take on responsibility very quickly, learn by taking action, and, despite possible mistakes, learn from them.
What Employees Say
"Beyond the great benefits offered, Cytora provides true flexibility and ability to think outside the box, great opportunities to push the boundaries and be creative."
How Success is Measured
Cytora is focused on your output and impact that positively moves the needle and not the amount of hours or work you put in
Communication Style
Communication is fully remote via Slack and video meetings. Cytora invests in regular in-person meetings and quarterly global offsite meetings to ensure people get to know each other in person as well.
Growth
Promotions
As the company is growing quickly, you have the ability to take on more responsibility quickly and also get promoted. The roles evolve fast and give you the ability to progress as well.
L&D Support
We believe this is Cytora's biggest selling point. If you are eager to progress your career and sharpen your technical skillset, you will have complete access to cutting-edge AI/ML technology. For example, Cytora is among the first companies worldwide to have received the AI Governance Certification ISO 42001. With their strong learning culture and absolutely no siloes, you will definitely learn likely the most in your career, while being able to take over a lot of ownership. You will also receive a £1500 L&D budget per year.
Internal Mobility
As there are no team silos, if you truly want to make a lateral shift in your career, you have the ability to change internally.
Benefits
Work Flexibility
- Remote-First: Choose to work from any UK, EU or US location
- Cytora does not care what hours you work as long as it is sustainable
- Get the job done and you do not need permission to do anything besides that
- £2000 per annum work-from-anywhere budget for encouraging a change of perspective
Compensation
- Above-industry salary and compensation
- Stock options for sharing ownership are aligned for the rewards and success
Health & Insurance
- Extensive health insurance
Family Support
- Instead of the statutory 1-2 weeks statuory leave, with Cytora you receive a primary leave of 18 weeks whilst the secondary leave is 6 weeks
- Transparent and positive family-friendly policies
Professional Development
- Biggest selling point: A strong learning culture and absolutely no siloes
- £1500 L&D budget per year
- Work on cutting-edge AI/ML
- Have complete access and opportunity to their technology, so that you can own and drive your own progression.
Leave & Time Off
- 25 days of paid leave
- Paid leave increasing to 27 days with tenure
- Team social events and international offsites, so that we can build and maintain great relationships
Jobs at Cytora
Explore 3 current remote opportunities.
Frequently asked questions
Have more questions? Get in touch with Frederic, Founder of RemoteCorgi.
- Is Cytora truly remote?
- Yes! Cytora is a truly fully remote company. You can work from any location within the UK, the EU, or the USA with complete flexibility.
- What is the biggest selling-point to join Cytora?
- If you want to learn as much as possible, take on responsibility quickly and work on cutting-edge technology, Cytora is the place to be. We especially like their commitment to encouraging taking action rather than talking and speculating. They want you to succeed and believe the best way is to try, maybe fail, but learn as fast as possible.
- What exactly happened with this Applied Systems acquisition?
- By the end of 2025, Cytora was acquired by Applied Systems. We believe this acquisition is a great next step, as both founders (Richard Hartley and Aneas Wiener) remain in leadership positions and aim to double the company's global footprint over the next few years. With this acquisition, they immediately gain access to 70% of insurance brokers and agents, benefiting both companies tremendously.
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