AppZen · 4 months ago
Principal Product Manager
San Jose, California
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expAppZen, Inc. is the leader in autonomous spend-to-pay software, utilizing patented artificial intelligence to enhance enterprise spend management. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to drive strategy and execution across their Autonomous Accounts Payable and Expense Automation solutions, focusing on AI-driven innovation and collaboration with various teams to deliver exceptional automation products.
AccountingArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataFinTechMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Define and drive the long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap across AP and EA initiatives, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business objectives
Leverage machine learning and generative AI to deliver innovative, differentiated solutions that transform how finance teams operate
Keen eye for details and ability to work with designers to create consumer grade UX
Partner with engineering, design, AI/ML, GTM, and customer success teams to build, launch, and scale automation products that customers love
Craft a coherent product vision, strategy and roadmap; Ability to map out the customer journey to drive requirements
Engage with enterprise customers to understand their workflows and pain points; translate insights into product requirements that improve efficiency, compliance, and ROI
Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
Ruthlessly prioritize initiatives, balance innovation with delivery, and ensure seamless execution of multi-team initiatives
Execute. This means being constantly biased towards action, understanding the domain, knowing the data, being in the details, setting a high bar and building strong collaborative relationships with other teams, thinking boldly, disambiguating and rapidly iterating towards something awesome
Qualification
Required
Must be a self-starter who truly enjoys working in a fast-paced startup environment
Ideally have seen a product through hyper-growth
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
7+ years of product management experience, with significant time in FinTech, ERP, AP/AR, or Expense Management domains
Proven track record of shipping and scaling AI-enabled enterprise products
Strong strategic thinking, with the ability to craft and execute on a coherent long-term product vision
Exceptional customer empathy, with the ability to uncover insights and translate them into winning product strategies
Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams
Preferred
Nice to have Technical Background or Management Consulting experience
BS degree or equivalent preferred
Company
AppZen
AppZen is a technology company that provides an AI-driven finance platform to automate and improve financial operations.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (9)
2024 (4)
2023 (6)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$280.6MKey Investors
Riverwood CapitalCoatueLightspeed Venture Partners
2025-09-22Series D· $180M
2019-09-09Series C· $50M
2018-10-30Series B· $35M
Leadership Team
Anant Kale
CEO
Kunal Verma
Co-Founder and CTO
Recent News
2025-12-29
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