Director of Product Management, Emburse
Spend optimization platform
Job no longer available
Spend optimization platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To humanize work by empowering employees, approvers, finance professionals and CFOs to eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks so they can focus on what matters most.
Role
Who you are
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, economics, public relations, statistics, advertising, management or related field, or equivalent experience
- O 7+ Years of Product Management experience, coupled with a deep understanding of software development
- O 2+ years experience managing a team
- O Advanced experience in customer development, product definition, feature scoping, and balancing tradeoffs for industry-leading business software products
- Preferred:
- O Strong analytical skills working with Excel and SQL querying
- O Ability to write clear bug reports and technical specs
- O Understanding of technical constrains and when to involve engineering
- O Ability to identify signal from noise, focusing on the most impactful decisions in a customer-facing context
- O Demonstrated ability to develop deep empathy with customers
- O Understanding of productivity tools and techniques, helping teams work better together
- O Ability to produce work that is on time, clear, and high quality
- O Exceptional attention to detail and demonstrated ability to work with complex concepts
- O Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
- O Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- O Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
- O Strong organization skills and ability to manage multiple high priority projects simultaneously and successfully
What the job involves
- The Director, Product is ultimately responsible for the efficiency of the Product Management team as well as shapes the overall vision of software products and applications through collaboration with clients and internal software developers, design, account management / sales, and marketing teams
- Ultimately responsible for the efficiency of the Product Management team
- Accomplish team results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, and guiding employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards in partnership with Certify, Inc. leadership through indirectly managing a team of Product Managers and Associate Product Managers as well as directly managing the Manager, Product
- Determine metrics, KPIs and other success indicators, ensure team and individuals are meeting these expectations
- Responsible for driving product development for a supporting product focus area spanning more than one full engineering team
- Lead analyses of the competitive environment, customers and product metrics to determine the right set of features to drive engagement and usage of assigned applications/products
- Study market trends and competitive offerings, research, monitor, and analyze industry and competitive trends regularly; provide updates and recommendations to supervisor
- Collaborate on building business case, defining product vision and strategy
- Internalize customer pain points, communicating regularly with our Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing about customer feedback
- Communicate status of project with stakeholders
- Manage the prioritized feature backlog and bug process
- Create clear and concise product specs, test, iterate and drive to launch, partnering with Engineers and Designers on product development - Drive consensus and identify key metrics for upcoming projects
- Actively participate in roadmap planning
- Own features, end to end
Our take
Keeping track of spend is a vital capability for businesses - one that has been complicated by the switch to digital payments, an increase in remote working, and inflation, among other things. Emburse supplies a platform to manage and optimize spend, that removes the need for manual processes, speeding them up whilst keeping them compliant and delivering insights into spend trends.
Emburse's platform covers travel, employee and centralized spend, with a range of capabilities including automated purchasing, technology assisted human audit, and smart data reporting. Upwards of 18,000 organizations make use of the company's offering, with notable clients including Microsoft and Bosch, and it has been recognized as an industry leader - all boding well for its future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2016
$0.2m
SEED
Jun 2015
$4.2m
SEED
Total funding: $4.4m
Company benefits
- Keep work and life balanced with generous paid time off for every employee and flexible work schedules
- Every employee can volunteer for a cause that matters to them, because enriching the community matters
- New parents receive paid leave so they can focus on bonding with a new addition to their happy family
- We have medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans that can fit any family size and lifestyle—including health savings accounts (HSA)
- We offer a generous match to pre- or post-tax retirement savings accounts so employees can worry less about the future—plus expert legal planning services for trusts, wills and more. We also offer financial planning services
- Our pre-tax flexible spending account (FSA) helps to pay for approved medical expenses, plus a transit benefit to ease the costs of commuting
- What’s the purpose of living without a little fun? Our offices have quarterly outings, a delicious supply of snacks and beverages, along with Friday get-togethers to build a strong community at work
Company HQ
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Marne Martin
(CEO)Non Executive Board Member at Riskonnect. Former CSOP and President of IFS, and CEO at WorkWave.
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