Staff Product Manager, Payables

Product at Brex

The Product team is at the forefront of Brex's mission to empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions. With a deep understanding of the business, we identify and scope out the most impactful opportunities for Brex to tackle. We are responsible for aligning cross-functional teams — such as Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Design — on key decisions. We set strategy and drive products from inception to launch, enabling Brex to grow rapidly and help our customers reach their full potential.

What you’ll do

As a Staff Product Manager at Brex, you will be the driving force behind our Accounts Payable (AP) product line, encompassing bill pay and vendor management solutions. You will own the roadmap and strategy to ensure our users experience the most efficient and secure processes for onboarding and paying their suppliers. This highly cross-functional role also requires you to coordinate and influence roadmaps across our Integrations, Policy, Security, and Workflows teams. You will also collaborate closely with our Go-to-Market (GTM) teams to ensure seamless onboarding for customers, particularly those with significant and complex spending needs. You will be instrumental in creating product features, models, and tools that empower our customers to easily utilize and derive maximum value from Brex's payables products. You will work closely with cross-functional teams and other Product Managers across the organization, based in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Vancouver, Brazil, and remote locations.  

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in either our San Francisco or New York City office. You must be willing to work in the office at least 2 days per week on Wednesday and Thursday. Employees will be able to work remotely for up to 4 weeks per year, for a minimum of one week at a time.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the strategy and roadmap for Brex's Accounts Payable (bill pay and vendor management) products and services, working closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Design, Policy, Security, Integrations, and Go-to-Market teams.
• Build a deep understanding of what customers need to successfully and securely manage their supplier onboarding and payment processes through Brex.
• Define and launch new products and features, collaborating closely with engineering, design, data, and operations, with a focus on automation and fraud prevention.
• Collaborate effectively with a cross-functional team including Engineering, Operations, Sales, and partner with other Product Managers to ensure a cohesive user experience across Brex's offerings.
• Set clear goals and metrics for the Payables product line and new features, and be accountable for achieving them, with a vision to transform these products into an automation and fraud prevention AI powerhouse.
• Coordinate and influence the roadmaps of dependent teams (Integrations, Policy, Security, Workflows) to ensure alignment with the Payables product strategy.
• Work closely with GTM teams to develop strategies and tools that enable the successful onboarding of customers with large and complex spend.

Requirements

• Relevant experience: 7+ years of experience in product management or management consulting, ideally with direct responsibility for or experience scaling financial products and GTM systems, with a strong understanding of accounts payable processes.
• Analytical sense: You demonstrate a strong aptitude for and actively use data to inform your decision-making. Basic SQL proficiency is strongly preferred.
• Communication: You have proven experience working and communicating effectively with senior leaders and executives, and influencing stakeholders across departments and functions, including Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, CRMX/Business Systems, IT, Legal, and more. You excel at building trust and working relationships.
• Systems-thinker: You are a systems thinker, capable of thinking holistically across product, technical, and people systems to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for efficiency, automation, fraud prevention, and product growth within the payables ecosystem.

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $240,000 - $270,000.  However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.