Senior Product Manager, Pliant
Accounting Integrations
Digital corporate credit card solutions
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Digital corporate credit card solutions
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to grow by providing a smart payment option that grows with their business.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of product management or relevant experience in fintech, payments, accounting systems, or platform products
- Strong understanding of accounting systems (e.g. NetSuite, QuickBooks, DATEV, Xero) and how businesses use them in practice, including differences across markets and customer segments
- Experience building or managing integrations, APIs, or platform products, ideally across multiple external systems with differing data models and constraints
- Ability to understand complex, often customer-specific accounting requirements (e.g. local standards, workflows, or edge cases) and translate them into scalable product solutions
- Experience working with structured financial data (e.g. transactions, invoices, ledgers) and designing systems for mapping, synchronization, and reconciliation across systems
- Strong ability to navigate and structure complexity, such as:
- Differing accounting standards and market-specific requirements
- Varying levels of API maturity across systems
- Evolving customer and partner needs
- Technical fluency and ability to work closely with backend engineers on APIs, data models, and integration logic
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive decisions, prioritize effectively, and move forward in complex environments
- Excellent communication skills and ability to drive alignment across teams
- Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus
What the job involves
- As (Senior) Product Manager - Accounting Integrations (m/f/d), you will own the strategy, prioritization, and delivery of Pliant’s accounting integrations and the underlying integration platform
- Your mission is to turn accounting integrations from a series of bespoke projects into a scalable, repeatable system, enabling Pliant to integrate with ERPs and accounting systems quickly, reliably, and at scale
- You will work at the intersection of product, engineering, and commercial teams to ensure integrations are both technically robust and commercially impactful
- You will lead a cross-functional product team of backend and frontend engineers and collaborate closely with Sales, Partnerships, Solutions Engineering, Operations, and Finance to prioritize integrations based on real business impact
- This role sits within the PAW group of Pliant’s tech organization and reports to the Head of Product - PAW
- Own the end-to-end strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for Pliant’s accounting integrations
- Define how Pliant integrates with external accounting systems across markets, balancing customer needs, scalability, and commercial impact
- Translate diverse and often customer-specific accounting requirements into a clear, scalable product direction
- Define and build the accounting integration abstraction layer, including core data models, mapping logic, synchronization patterns, and error handling
- Shape a consistent and reusable integration architecture that supports multiple systems (e.g. NetSuite, QuickBooks, DATEV, Xero)
- Establish standards and templates that enable integrations to be developed in a predictable and repeatable way
- Drive the delivery of key integrations (e.g. Sage Intacct) as proof of the abstraction approach
- Define clear product requirements and work closely with engineering to ensure high-quality, reliable delivery across integrations
- Identify and remove bottlenecks in integration delivery, onboarding, and support
- Improve how integrations are implemented, configured, and used by customers
- Work cross-functionally with commercial, operations, and other product teams to ensure integrations deliver real customer value and support growth
Our take
The corporate credit card industry, historically dominated by giants like AmEx, has seen rapid disruption and growth over recent years. An influx of VC investment boosted smaller outfits like Divvy and Brex Inc. to multi-billion dollar operations, and this has cracked open the market to a host of smaller fintech startups.
Pliant is a German company entering the scene, but it’s a competitive one. It's hoping to stand out by prioritising seamless software integrations, competitive cashback, and a new optional feature offsetting travel-related CO2 emissions. The latter is incredibly novel and has undoubtedly won the company some press in an increasingly sustainability-oriented climate.
Pliant’s offering of both physical and digital cards, as well as its suite of advantages and services, has enabled the company to successfully adapt to the growing payments market. The company has, thus far, entered seven additional European markets and expanded its customer portfolio sixfold. Following successful funding rounds, Pliant is set to further expand operations and its business reach, with a focus on the US.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
233% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$41.3m
SERIES B
Apr 2024
$21.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $123.3m
Company benefits
- Home office and remote work
- Flexible working hours
- Mobility discount
- Budget for professional development and training
- Railcard
- Monthly food allowance
- Gympass
- Weekly mindfulness sessions
- Team events
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Fabian Turner
(Co-Founder & CPO)Previously the Head of Operations at Lendico, and went on to serve as CPO at FinCompare.
Malte Rau
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Portfolio Manager and Head of Fintech Investments at Global Growth Cap, they then went on to found Geldspeicher GmbH.
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