About ApprovalMax

ApprovalMax is award-winning B2B software used by businesses around the world to approve bills and expenses. It streamlines the approval process for decision-makers by replacing paper and email approvals with automated workflows. ApprovalMax integrates with platforms such as Xero, QuickBooks Online, and Oracle NetSuite to unlock powerful efficiencies for approvers and finance teams. The company is globally recognized and has won’ Xero App Partner of the Year’ four times since 2020 in different countries.

As part of the product team development strategy, we are looking for a Technical Product Manager in the Product team.

Responsibilities include:

• Product: SaaS for approving financial documents in modern cloud accounting apps which lack flexible and efficient implementation as native feature.
• Business model: Addon promoted in the accounting systems ecosystems (all of whom have their own marketplaces). The niche is called Accounts Payable automation and it is super hot (lots of players, VCs, investments and acquisitions).
• Market: Global sales following the geography of target accounting apps (Oceania, Asia, Europe, Americas, Africa).
• Company: ~100 employees and we are fully remote. We are not a startup anymore (profitable and double digit growing) but not yet a corporation.

Current product state

• Market leader: Over the 6+ years we have become a leader for our core accounting software ecosystem (Xero which is itself almost an accounting standard in Oceania & Asia).
• Solid foundation: From the product side we are years ahead of current competitors. From the engineering side we have solved our growth issues so we are ready to jump into the next league.
• Scaling business: We build integrations with other accounting systems and deliver more value for existing integrations by automating more scenarios.

Challenge

• Triple digits growth wanted: We want to establish a leadership in Accounts Payable automation space worldwide across all major cloud accounting systems. We want to use our SMB experience to disrupt slow and heavy enterprise-focused competitors. And we want to keep maintaining the best SMB experience for our current user base.
• Deep integrations: We built a software that every accountant could just plug’n’play and it would work right away. Lots of research and heavy understanding of the accounting systems is needed for that.
• Product scope expansion: Our app is already much more than basic approvals. We want to compete with enterprise-level systems which automate all processes in accounts payable teams.

Whom we are looking for

• Ownership: You are expected to get a vague idea from users (be it a new integration, or automation scenario, or product feature) and deliver it to production dealing with Engineering, Marketing, Support, Customer Success, Sales departments. We need a product driver who can intelligently push the initiatives till completion.

Technical knowledge:

You will need:

• to understand how modern SaaS are built.
• to read API docs in order to be an expert in accounting systems that we integrate with
• to think how the feature could be implemented on a high-level and to prepare the detailed requirements for the dev team.
• to talk to devs and be able to discuss the logical implementation of your features.
• to think about all corner cases and limitations before devs start working.
• Some companies even call such roles as systems analysts but we strongly believe in technical product manager role definition which adds ownership to technical knowledge.

Business context:

You will need:

• to dive deep into how accounting people operate
• to speak with them in their language (it is ok to know nothing in this area but it is a must to learn it over time)
• to filter out the core idea from their scattered feedback and generalize it as consistent product feature
• to be guided by product & business metrics when decided what to built next

Desired Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of work experience in System Analytics or Product Management
• Strong background in payment services 
• Robust understanding of different payment technologies, an open banking protocol, bank transfers, and virtual accounts technology.
• Familiarity with relevant UK and EU regulatory frameworks, such as Electronic Money Institutions (EMI).
• Knowledge of Banking as a Service (BaaS) models is advantageous.
• Proven understanding of software engineering approaches
• Knowledge of requirement engineering methods and tools
• Software engineering experience is preferred
• Experience with tools and philosophy of continuous delivery app lifecycle (version control, issue tracking, building, deployment, auto tests, etc.)
• A self-starter who can work well on his own and as part of a team
• Responsiveness
• English language skills sufficient to have meetings with English-speaking colleagues

This role is:

• Full-time and permanent.

What we offer:

• Regular performance-based compensation reviews;
• 100% paid 20 business vacation days;
• 100% paid 10 sick leave days;
• Flexible hours;
• Remote work;
• Health & Wellness program - a bonus payment, which will cover 50% up to a total of 500 Euro annually of the amount spent on the following activities: medical services (except regular health insurance), fitness, sports activities (excluding sports equipment), stress management, body massage, weight management, yoga, traveling, etc.
• Reimbursement of co-working space;
• Reimbursement of professional development courses;
• Service years recognition financial reward;
• Parental leave support.