Chief Product Officer, Spend & Expense Management Software

MarketPro is partnering with an unnamed global leader in corporate payments and expense management to hire a Chief Product Officer for its Spend Management division. The executive will define product strategy and lead the evolution of an integrated, AI-powered SaaS platform, while building product capabilities and a high-velocity operating model.

Responsibilities:

• Set a category-defining product vision. Create a differentiated, multi-year strategy that anticipates customer needs, establishes new sources of value, and positions the company among the most innovative B2B fintech and spend-management platforms
• Make software experience a competitive advantage. Champion a simple, coherent, and highly intuitive user experience across web and mobile—reducing friction for finance teams, employees, administrators, and partners
• Build a high-velocity product operating model. Establish the rituals, decision rights, architecture partnership, and metrics that enable rapid prototyping, frequent releases, disciplined learning, and reliable delivery
• Embed AI into the product—and the way products are built. Identify practical, high-value applications of AI across automation, controls, reconciliation, insights, fraud prevention, service, and product-development workflows
• Connect product choices to enterprise value. Own a product portfolio and roadmap measured by customer adoption, retention, revenue, margin, speed, and strategic differentiation
• Define and communicate the end-to-end product vision, strategy, portfolio priorities, and roadmap for the Spend Management division
• Translate customer problems, market shifts, competitive dynamics, and the company’s distinctive assets into focused product bets with clear business cases
• Lead the evolution toward a unified, scalable SaaS platform spanning expense management, commercial cards, accounts payable automation, mobile workflows, controls, and analytics
• Partner deeply with engineering leadership on platform architecture, technical tradeoffs, delivery capacity, quality, security, and the transition from third-party support to durable internal product-engineering capability
• Create an AI product agenda that improves customer outcomes and operational leverage while applying appropriate governance, data discipline, and risk controls
• Raise the standard for product discovery, design, UX research, experimentation, prototyping, roadmap governance, and release management
• Establish a transparent product scorecard spanning activation, engagement, adoption, retention, customer satisfaction, delivery velocity, quality, revenue contribution, and profitability
• Work across sales, operations, technology, finance, marketing, risk, compliance, and service to ensure product strategy becomes coordinated execution and compelling customer value
• Develop a strong point of view on build, buy, partner, and integrate decisions; contribute product leadership to M&A evaluation and integration where relevant
• Represent the product vision with executive leadership, strategic customers, partners, and the broader market
• Clarify roles, decision rights, career paths, and standards of excellence across product management, product ownership, design, and product operations
• Recruit builders who combine technical fluency, customer empathy, commercial instinct, and a bias for action
• Create a culture where teams challenge assumptions, combine data with bold judgment, and move from insight to shipped value quickly
• Coach leaders and individual contributors to think beyond incremental features and solve the underlying customer and business problem

Requirements:

• Approximately 15+ years of progressive experience across product, software engineering, architecture, or adjacent technical leadership, including significant ownership of enterprise B2B software products
• A record of building or reinventing SaaS platforms with exceptional UI/UX, strong customer adoption, and measurable commercial impact
• Demonstrated success operating in high-growth or disruptive environments where teams prototype rapidly, ship frequently, and learn directly from customer behavior
• Technical depth sufficient to engage credibly on architecture, APIs, data, integrations, platform scalability, security, quality, and engineering tradeoffs
• Practical experience applying AI to customer-facing products and/or the product-development lifecycle; able to separate meaningful value creation from novelty
• Experience scaling product organizations and attracting high-caliber product, design, and technical talent while strengthening an existing team
• Strong business judgment, including the ability to connect roadmap and investment decisions to revenue, retention, economics, customer value, and competitive advantage
• Enterprise product experience involving complex workflows, permissions, controls, integrations, analytics, or regulated environments
• Builder's mindset
• Energized by creating the team, operating systems, product strategy, and capabilities required to accelerate growth
• Forms independent, data-backed points of view and is willing to challenge comfortable assumptions
• Earns the confidence of engineers while keeping technology choices anchored in customer and business outcomes
• Looks past feature requests to understand workflows, friction, behavior, and unmet needs
• Payments or fintech expertise offers added context