About Pleo
Messy spend management is tricky business. And tedious processes are a lose-lose situation for all involved, not just finance. At Pleo, we're changing that. We build spend solutions that make managing money seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike—with a vision to help all businesses ‘go beyond’.
The word ‘Pleo’ actually means ‘more than you’d expect’, and living by that mantra has been the secret to our success over the last 10 years.
Now, we’re at a pivotal moment in our journey; every move we make has a direct impact on our 40,000+ customers, our business, and our collective success. We need people who take pride in uncovering customer needs, who turn complex problems into simple solutions, challenge the way things are done (respectfully), and always aim high. With great ambitions driving us forward, we can’t say we’ve got this whole thing figured out. And frankly, that’s half the fun! What we can say is that we’re a driven, progressive, and, importantly, a kind bunch of 850+ people from over 100 nationalities, all committed to delivering the future of business spending, together.
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.
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.
The Package
The annual salary for this position varies based on your location:
- United Kingdom: £85,575 - £94,365
- Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands: €97,500 - €107,500
- Spain, Portugal: €88,500 - €97,500
The role can be based in any of the locations where we have a legal entity, including: Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, the UK & the Netherlands. We can hire either remotely, hybrid or in office but you need to be physically based in any of those countries (even if working remotely).
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role in any of the listed locations you find in the job info so you will need to have a valid right to work.
We’re 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 👶
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.
