Chief Product Officer, Software

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop a category-defining product vision and formulate a differentiated, long-term strategy.

• Advocate for a simple, coherent, and intuitive user experience across both web and mobile platforms.

• Create a high-velocity product operating model incorporating rituals, decision rights, architectural partnerships, metrics, rapid prototyping, and dependable delivery.

• Recognize practical, high-value AI applications within automation, controls, reconciliation, insights, fraud prevention, service, and product-development workflows.

• Take ownership of a product portfolio and roadmap assessed by adoption, retention, revenue, margin, speed, and strategic differentiation.

• Define and articulate the product vision, strategy, portfolio priorities, and roadmap for the Spend Management division.

• Convert customer challenges, market changes, competitive dynamics, and company resources into focused product initiatives and business cases.

• Drive the transition towards a unified, scalable SaaS platform that encompasses expense management, commercial cards, accounts payable automation, mobile workflows, controls, and analytics.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership on architecture, technical trade-offs, delivery capacity, quality, security, and internal product engineering capabilities.

• Develop an AI product agenda with suitable governance, data discipline, and risk management controls.

• Elevate standards for product discovery, design, UX research, experimentation, prototyping, roadmap governance, and release management.

• Create a transparent product scorecard that includes activation, engagement, adoption, retention, customer satisfaction, velocity, quality, revenue contribution, and profitability.

• Work collaboratively across sales, operations, technology, finance, marketing, risk, compliance, and service functions.

• Guide decisions on building, buying, partnering, and integrating; contribute product leadership to M&A evaluations and integrations.

• Represent the product vision to executives, strategic customers, partners, and the wider market.

• Expand the product team from about 5–7 members to 10–15 individuals.

• Clarify roles, decision rights, career paths, and standards of excellence.

• Recruit talent in product, design, analytics, and technical product domains.

• Foster a culture of data-informed decision-making, rapid learning, and swift delivery.

• Mentor leaders and individual contributors to address fundamental customer and business challenges.

⛳️ Requirements

• Around 15+ years of progressive experience in product management, software engineering, architecture, or related technical leadership, with significant ownership of enterprise B2B software products.

• Proven track record of building or reinventing SaaS platforms characterized by exceptional UI/UX, strong customer adoption, and measurable business impact.

• Displayed success in high-growth or disruptive environments where teams rapidly prototype, frequently ship, and learn directly from customer interactions.

• Sufficient technical depth to engage credibly in discussions about architecture, APIs, data, integrations, platform scalability, security, quality, and engineering trade-offs.

• Practical experience in applying AI to customer-facing products and/or the product-development lifecycle; capable of distinguishing meaningful value from mere novelty.

• Experience in scaling product organizations and attracting top-tier product, design, and technical talent while enhancing existing teams.

• Strong business acumen, including the ability to link roadmap and investment choices to revenue, retention, economics, customer value, and competitive advantage.

• Enterprise product experience involving complex workflows, permissions, controls, integrations, analytics, or regulated environments.

• An engineering-first foundation or deep technical fluency.

• Significant ownership of enterprise B2B software products.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible working hours and remote working options.

• Collaborative and innovative work environment.