Director of Product Management - Apps

Company: AppZen, Inc.
Location: San Jose
Posted on: January 14, 2021

Job Description:

AppZen is the leader in AI software for finance teams. Over 1,800 global enterprises use AppZen to automate manual finance processes, reduce expenditures, and gain real-time insights into their business spend trends. Our patented software technology delivers AI deep learning, semantic analysis, and Star Match---, the only automated spend validation that processes intelligence from thousands of data sources, documents, and images to understand financial transactions and make decisions based on finance policies. AppZen is the platform of choice for today's digital CFO and their teams, including four of the top five banks, four of the top ten media companies, four of the top ten pharmaceutical manufacturers, two of the top five aerospace companies, and six of the top ten software providers. We've taken off this year! Since releasing our platform in 2016, over 1,800 enterprises have standardized on AppZen, including three of the top ten banks, four of the top ten media companies, three of the top ten pharmaceutical manufacturers, two of the top five aerospace companies, and five of the top ten software providers. We were a Gartner Cool Vendor, and have been recognized as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the market. In 2019 we received $50 million in Series C funding from Lightspeed, Redpoint and other leading venture capital firms. We're looking for a Director of Product Management for applications to join the product team. In 2021, we will be accelerating the delivery of new AI applications for corporate finance teams. We value our diversity of perspectives, but foremost we all share a passion for improving the experience for our audience.-- We're looking for you if:

• You have created and delivered on an end-to-end vision of a product.
• You don't think shipping a product is the end of the journey.
• You are collaborative and enthusiastic. You can effectively involve multiple team members to get to the smartest solutions for our customers' business processes.
• You are an analytical problem solver who can transform complex problem statements into intuitive experiences.
• You embrace learning new domains and product ecosystems.
• You are unfazed by ambiguity.--
• You embrace feedback and have a desire for continuous iteration and improvement. The role:
  • Help shape and deliver on the vision for our AI platform for finance.
  • Hands-on creative problem solving in a cloud-based enterprise software system.
  • Collaborate with Designers, User Researchers, Engineers, Product Managers, Product Marketing in small Agile teams.
  • Collaborate with customers and partners to develop market differentiated solutions for business problems faced by finance teams.
  • Work in teams to iteratively deliver features, understanding and refining requirements, validating concepts, and collectively making progress until you get to the best solution in the hands of customers.
  • Facilitate design sessions and apply collaborative methods to produce market leading solutions.
  • Demonstrate a passion for iteration and an eagerness to receive feedback.
  • Manage and prioritize multiple projects of varying timelines, degrees of complexity and scope. Qualifications/skills:
    • Minimum 6 years work experience as a product manager.
    • Minimum 2 years people management experience.
    • Enterprise and cloud product portfolio experience.
    • Experience building with products for business and technical users.
    • Experience working in Agile environments.
    • BS, MS degree, or equivalent experience. Come as you are, we do not discriminate! We celebrate, support, and thrive upon our diverse customer and employee base.

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