Senior Product Manager - User & Controls

Intro

At Pleo, we’re on a mission to revolutionize the way businesses manage company spending. We aim to eliminate outdated processes, clunky spreadsheets, and frustrating delays by crafting tools that promote autonomy, foster trust, and empower finance teams and employees alike. Our culture is built on transparency, collaboration, and a deep commitment to innovation, reflected in the solution we offer. Join us and help shape the future of work while enjoying a fun and collaborative environment.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead our User Enablement and Growth domain, ensuring employees have the right access and context to spend in line with their business interests while maximizing their reach to all that Pleo has to offer. You will define and execute the product vision and strategy to transform inefficient spend controls into an effortless, empowered experience. Your empathy for Finance and HR professionals is crucial as the team operates at the intersection of company structure and financial access. You will also bring commercial acumen, having directly influenced and led growth strategies.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our User Management and Spend Controls space, ensuring we sustain our market‑leading position and experience.
• Bring domain expertise in user permissions, access controls, spend policies, budget enforcement, and approval workflows to directly influence the product roadmap.
• Play a pivotal role in increasing our ARPA by giving mid‑market finance admins the confidence that all employees who need to spend should do so through Pleo.
• Engage stakeholders from Product Marketing & GTM to drive adoption and growth campaigns, ensuring all employees are well‑informed about Pleo’s spend products.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and data teams to align on strategies and ensure seamless execution of product initiatives.
• Leverage data and qualitative user research to deeply understand user needs and pain points related to managing users and controlling spend, translating these insights into innovative product solutions.
• Identify market trends, competitive landscapes, and potential partnerships to inform long‑term product strategy and future investment in the space.

What you bring

• Experience from HRIS and user management, either building solutions or previous experience working towards an HR team and ideally also a Finance team.
• Visionary and innovative with a proven track record of finding novel solutions to known problems, ensuring we stay category‑defining.
• A results‑oriented growth mindset, comfortable with ambiguity and a relentless drive for measurable outcomes that requires collaboration across the organization.
• Strong track record of leading high‑performing cross‑functional product teams (>10 engineers) through exceptional product management craft and leadership.
• Exceptional at breaking down complex concepts, prioritizing work, and conveying a clear narrative to your team and stakeholders.
• Deep customer empathy and proven experience conducting user research to translate insights into tangible product improvements.
• Experience working with AI and automation to improve workflows is beneficial.

Who you'll be working with and reporting to

You’ll report to our Senior Product Director Rob Guard and work closely with an Engineering Manager, two designers, and tech leads. Together with your EM and Design lead, you set the strategy, direction, and priority for two engineering squads. You’ll also partner with members from Data, Product Research, GTM, and Partnerships to drive your product’s success.

How you'll develop in this role

• Work closely with your design counterpart to rethink the onboarding process of setting up spend policies and controls.
• Set a vision and mid‑term roadmap for how our user management, permission, and control capabilities will evolve during 2026 to give more employees access to Pleo spend products.
• Get to work with exceptional talent and quickly learn how to build a B2B product experience that is today recognised as industry‑leading.

Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out‑of‑pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us for your workdays – enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office.
• Comprehensive private healthcare – coverage options include Vitality, Alan, or Médis depending on your location.
• 25 days of holiday + your public holidays.
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice.
• Hybrid and fully remote working options for our team.
• Access to free mental health and well‑being support via Mynd
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• Paid parental leave, supporting families and ensuring work does not compromise family life.

Why join us?

Working at Pleo means you're contributing to the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo has been a secret to our success over 8 years, empowering businesses to delegate spending to all employees, automate processes, and foster a culture of responsible spending. We operate across finance, marketing, sales, IT, and beyond, building solutions that scale with tomorrow’s needs.

About Your Application

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