Senior Product Manager - Expense Core
Pleo
Intro
At Pleo, we’re on a mission to revolutionise the way businesses manage company spending. No more outdated processes, clunky spreadsheets, or frustrating delays - we believe spend management should be seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike. We’re creating tools that promote autonomy, foster trust, and let businesses focus on what truly matters.
Our culture is built on transparency, collaboration, and a deep commitment to innovation – which is reflected in our spending solution. At Pleo, you’ll join a passionate team shaping the future of work, all while having some fun along the way.
About the role
As a Senior Product Manager for the Expense Core team (accounting platform), you will play a critical role in shaping the core transactional and accounting infrastructure that underpins Pleo's spend management solution. You will be the deep subject matter expert on accounting, transaction management, and external API capabilities, ensuring our platform is robust, scalable, and compliant.
You will own the product direction for the systems responsible for processing and managing payment transaction records, financial reconciliation, and the external availability of key accounting data via APIs. Working closely with engineering, finance, legal, and other product teams, you will translate complex technical and compliance requirements into a clear, prioritised product roadmap.
What you’ll be doing
As a Senior Product Manager, you will:
- Bring deep subject-matter expertise in accounting, with a strong focus on payment transaction records, reconciliation flows, and financial data management.
- Understand API fundamentals - particularly the requirements for exposing APIs externally - and ensure the platform enables seamless integrations for customers and partners.
- Incorporate compliance and regulatory considerations relevant to the Accounting Platform into product strategy, ensuring all decisions align with required standards.
- Coordinate cross-functional context gathering, working closely with Finance, Legal, and other Product teams to fully understand the scope of upcoming work. Act as the primary communication bridge between the Expense Core team and the wider business.
- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Expense Core team, ensuring clear direction and alignment with broader company goals.
- Manage the product backlog, including detailed refinement and prioritisation of initiatives, ensuring alignment with long-term objectives and business impact.
- Act as a product-side reviewer for technical changes, providing a sanity check on proposed engineering work, identifying downstream implications, and helping the team think through edge cases to prevent incidents.
- Partner with the Engineering Manager to coordinate and prioritise the high volume of inbound requests from internal teams, ensuring clarity and efficient execution.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering Leads to translate long-term strategy into concrete deliverables and objectives. Drive execution through roadmap planning, sprint facilitation, and ongoing delivery oversight.
You’ll thrive in this role if you have:
- Demonstrated experience in a Product Management role focusing on core financial, accounting, or transactional platforms.
- Deep subject matter expertise in accounting principles, particularly related to payment processing, transaction records, and financial reconciliation.
- Strong practical understanding of API design, documentation, and externalisation.
- Proven ability to work with legal and compliance teams to translate regulatory requirements into technical specifications.
- A track record of making and validating impact hypotheses, translating complex platform work into tangible value for the business.
- Comfortable owning the product strategy for a technical platform team.
- Experience leading discovery, gathering user requirements, and translating them into user stories.
- Worked with product-engineering teams using Agile principles.
Who you’ll be working with and reporting to
You will work closely with Engineering Leads, and partner with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Design, Finance, Revenue Operations, Legal, and Operations. You will work within the Accounting & Ecosystem group that owns the core infrastructure that powers Pleo, the bookkeeping experience for our customers, and the external API products we deliver to our customers and partners.
How you’ll develop in this role
In your first 6 months at Pleo, you’ll:
- Work closely with the Engineering Manager and leadership in the Accounting & Ecosystem group to develop the strategy for our core Accounting Platform helping us unlock new product development opportunities as well as additional value to our customers and partners.
- Collaborate with the team to balance improving the governance and reliability of our platform with competing business needs.
We’re committed to helping you develop your career, whether that means taking on bigger projects, stepping into leadership, or acquiring new skills in.
Annual Salary
The annual salary for this position goes from €88,500 to €107,500.
This varies based on your location but we'd be happy to share more about our approach to pay and this range during your first call with us!
Show me the benefits!
- Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
- Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office 🍜
- Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis
- We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
- For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options
- Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
- We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far ❤️🩹
- Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶
Why join us?
Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.
We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.
Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.
So, in a nutshell, that's Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ'd out of Copenhagen means we're inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don't work in the office with us, we'll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.
About your application
- Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join 💕
- We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support isn't able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone 😊
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