Senior Product Manager - Platform

Transparent, Insightful, Self-serve, and Reliable – that's how we want everyone in Pleo to feel about our data. So, that's all you have to optimise for in this role, sounds easy, right?

Our data platform team is on a mission to ensure data is embedded into every single thing we do for our customers and employees. Our team knows data is the lifeblood of our organisation. Ready to step boldly forward with us on this journey? Then you're in the right place.

But wait, you haven't heard of Pleo before? Really?

Who We Are

To get you off to a good start, let’s just say we’re saying goodbye to an outdated business process that’s been around forever – dreaded spend management.

We do this by helping customers delegate employee spending through a business spending platform. This means no more out-of-pocket spending, encouraging autonomy and trust in employees, and taking a huge burden off the finance team. You'll be building the SaaS tool (company spending solution) that comes with physical pre-paid cards (yes, with a fintech twist) distributed to all employees of the company. The best part? We're all users of Pleo ourselves, so it's a highly applicable tool. It impacts anyone in a company who spends money on behalf of the business – be it a coffee with clients or a Mac for a new hire.

Because we put the employee at the centre of all this, you'll find us to be user-obsessed (don’t take our word for it – check out our Trustpilot page: Trustpilot Pleo Reviews). We place ourselves in the user's position every day and try to minimise the major pains they feel.

To do all of this, we believe data should be available for everyone to:

• Gain Insights About Customers: We aim for data transparency to enable team members to obtain comprehensive insights into customer behaviours, preferences, and needs. This information helps us tailor our services and enhance customer satisfaction.
• Enhance Day-to-Day Operations: Reliable data should be accessible to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of daily operations. This includes streamlining processes, identifying areas for improvement, and making informed decisions that benefit the overall workflow.
• Build Customer Features: Data-driven insights are essential for developing and refining features that meet customer demands. By leveraging accurate and timely data, we can innovate and deliver functionalities that enhance user experience and value.
• Ensure Data Security and Compliance: It's vital for everyone to trust that the data they use and generate is handled securely and in compliance with relevant regulations. This means implementing robust data protection measures to safeguard sensitive information and maintain trust.

We are on one hell of a journey – our growth and pace of change will either terrify or delight you. We’re looking for someone inspired and energised by this type of challenge. Someone longing to be part of a journey like ours.

What Does This Role Entail?

You will be leading a data platform team at the core of Pleo. You will own the exploration of new functionality and, together with the team, drive the day-to-day delivery. In this role, you can expect to:

• Regularly meet with internal customers across our organisation to understand their problems and needs.
• Set product strategy and vision in collaboration with your team and senior leaders.
• Define KPIs for the team and success metrics for features to validate impact.
• Identify opportunities and design solutions to validate ideas and gain learnings to inform future development.
• Assist in managing the third-party providers we use.
• Continuously work with your Engineering Manager counterpart to improve team productivity.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration to facilitate and deliver projects with the team alongside engineering, data analytics, data & analytics engineering, product and operations teams to ensure alignment and successful delivery of platform features.
• Scope and deliver on initiatives that help support scaling the platform architecture and enablement in the organisation.
• Manage Platform roadmap, leading the integration of emerging technologies and taking responsibility for delivery, resource allocation and Agile best practices. 

Is There More Cool Stuff?

Absolutely! In this role, you will be part of a team of 12 talented analytics and data engineers. The team is distributed across Europe.

You’ll Thrive in This Role If You:

• Have experience leading platform enablement teams from a technical and product perspective.
• Have hands-on backend engineering experience in at least one server-side language (Python or Kotlin preferred) 
• Are comfortable navigating cloud services such as those hosted by AWS or GCP and supporting Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Are comfortable taking ownership of technical delivery, owning technical projects from start to finish alongside a technical team 
• Have shaped up best practices for developer experience, cyber security and compliance
• Have experience in Agile methodologies coaching and best practices
• Have relentless focus on getting results and a strong entrepreneurial drive.
• Are a strong communicator and storyteller who can bring clarity and inspire.
• Are a people person who wants to have fun at work and likes developing co-workers by creating a culture of inclusivity where authenticity is valued and celebrated.
• Love when things just click and the team is shipping.
  
  

Join us on this exciting journey!