Senior Product Manager - Decision Intelligence Lisboa

Overview

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At Pleo, we’re on a mission to revolutionise the way businesses manage company spending. We aim to remove outdated processes, clunky spreadsheets, and frustrating delays, making spend management seamless, empowering, and effective for finance teams and employees alike. We’re building tools that promote autonomy, foster trust, and help businesses focus on what matters.

Our culture is built on transparency, collaboration, and a commitment to innovation. You’ll join a passionate team shaping the future of work, with room for fun along the way.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Decision Intelligence team in the Enterprise Engineering vertical. In this role, you’ll drive the vision, strategy, and execution of our fraud prevention and AML technology stack, building advanced capabilities that protect customers, mitigate risk, and enable safe scalable growth. If you’re excited about building intelligent, high‑impact systems that combine data science, engineering, and risk expertise, this is your opportunity to make a tangible difference to thousands of businesses.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the roadmap for our fraud and AML decisioning platform, from early detection to
  - time prevention
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, compliance, and finance teams to design scalable, automated controls
• Use
  - driven insights to identify evolving fraud and AML patterns, and translate them into actionable product solutions
• Partner with regulators, compliance, and operations teams to ensure our tech stack meets (and exceeds) regulatory standards
• Drive continuous improvement of fraud detection accuracy and operational efficiency through experimentation and innovation
• Advocate for a proactive,
  - first approach to risk across the organisation
• Experience with machine learning–driven decisioning probabilistic systems

You’ll thrive in this role if you have

• Proven experience building or scaling fraud prevention and AML technology stacks in fintech, banking, or payments
• Deep understanding of fraud typologies, transaction monitoring, case management tools, and compliance workflows
• Strong product management skills from shaping vision and strategy to delivering features that drive measurable impact
• Data fluency: ability to work closely with analysts and data scientists to define metrics, assess performance, and iterate fast
• An appetite for risk — owning the responsibility of managing it intelligently
• Clear communication and stakeholder management skills to influence at all levels
• A track record of working in
  - functional,
  - paced environments where priorities shift quickly

Nice to have

• Exposure to
  - scale fintech or payments platforms
• Familiarity with European AML regulations and fraud risk frameworks

Who you’ll be working with and reporting to

You’ll report to our Group Product Manager, Roshni Bharadwaj, and work closely with teams across Pleo and the operations team. Our team of 5 is highly collaborative across competencies. You’ll also have the chance to partner with teams across Payments and Finance domains to ensure success.

In your first 6 months at Pleo, you’ll

• Lead the delivery of new
  - time fraud and AML detection capabilities
• Strengthen our fraud loss prevention rate through
  - driven interventions
• Shape the evolution of our decisioning platform to support new markets, products, and regulations
• Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders and external partners to accelerate delivery

We’re committed to helping you grow—whether it’s taking ownership of larger product domains, developing leadership skills, or deepening your expertise in advanced decision intelligence.

Benefits

• Your own Pleo card
• Lunch provided or lunch allowance for workdays
• Comprehensive private healthcare options varying by location
• 25 days of holiday plus public holidays
• Hybrid and fully remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through salary sacrifice
• Paid parental leave

Why join us?

Working at Pleo means contributing to an exciting vision: the future of work and better company spend management. We aim to automate spend processes and foster responsible spending, uniting finance with other functions. Our four core values are: champion the customer, succeed as a team, make it happen, and build to scale.

Today, we are an 850+ team across multiple locations with remote options. We’ll support your best remote setup if you don’t work in an office.

About your application

• Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language
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