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Spendesk is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead AI product strategy across multiple squads. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on defining how AI creates measurable value for customers and the business.
You will work within the AI & Data Products squad, which builds AI features and agents designed to make Spendesk smarter, faster, and more reliable. The role emphasizes pragmatic shipping and outcomes measured by adoption and customer impact.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define durable AI product direction across several product areas by connecting customer problems, company priorities, technical feasibility, and commercial opportunity
- Identify high-impact problems invisible from a single squad perspective and frame them into evidence-backed bets
- Determine where AI genuinely wins (accelerating work, improving reliability, creating new intelligence) versus deterministic automation
- Make trade-offs visible across value, adoption, quality, risk, data readiness, capacity, and opportunity cost
- Own outcomes end-to-end: baselines, targets, quality guardrails, launch, adoption, and post-release learning
- Bring coherence to a portfolio of agents, AI features, and shared data foundations
- Partner with Engineering, Design, Data, Security, Finance, and go-to-market teams to clarify ownership and dependencies
- Multiply other PMs and squads through thought partnership, reusable principles, and clear product narratives
Required experience:
- Extensive product management background, ideally in B2B SaaS or fintech, with experience managing complex products, platforms, or cross-functional systems
- Track record of shaping strategy beyond a single squad and delivering sustained customer and business outcomes
- Experience with AI, ML, automation, or data products; understanding of model capabilities, limits, evaluation, data dependencies, and operational risk
- Strong judgment in ambiguity; ability to distinguish important problems from attractive distractions
- Skill in structuring complex systems and stakeholder landscapes, then simplifying key trade-offs
- Excellent communication and storytelling to align senior leaders and make complex strategy actionable
- Proven ability to influence without formal authority and improve judgment of peers
- Strong ownership of quality, trust, security, and product decision consequences
- Entrepreneurial mindset aligned with early-stage growth
Spendesk is an AI-powered spend management and procurement platform trusted by thousands of companies across Europe, including SoundCloud, Gousto, SumUp, and Bloom & Wild. The company operates offices in the UK, France, Spain, and Germany.
