产品管理总监
Director, Product Management
汇报对象：
首席产品官
工作地点：
美国
关于Ottimate
Ottimate是一个原生AI的应付账款（AP）自动化和支付平台，为酒店、医疗、零售、杂货和客户会计服务（CAS）等行业的中型、多地点运营商提供服务。我们帮助财务团队通过AI处理重复性工作，完成发票的采集、编码、审批和支付——涵盖AP自动化、供应商付款和支出管理。
我们获得私募股权支持（FTV Partners），正在快速向B2B财务更自主、更具主动性未来迈进。现在加入并早期负责真实业务领域是个不错的机会。
职位描述
你将负责Ottimate最新产品计划的战略和路线图——这些类别将我们的平台从AP自动化扩展到整个采购生命周期。该产品组合包括采购、预算和支出规划、合同管理以及相关功能，将客户购买的东西与最终支付的东西连接起来。这些都是0到1以及早期阶段的产品：你将定义愿景，与客户验证，并推向市场。
该职位还负责我们的设计和用户体验（UX）职能。你将管理产品经理和设计师作为一个团队，对工艺标准设定高要求，确保新产品从第一天起就感觉连贯、直观且 unmistakably Ottimate。
这是一个领导职位。你将为新项目组合设定方向，管理并发展产品经理和设计师团队，并直接与工程、数据科学和市场推广团队合作，扩大Ottimate为依赖我们的财务团队所做的工作。
职责
- 负责Ottimate新项目组合的产品愿景、战略和路线图，包括采购、预算和支出规划、合同管理。
- 领导新产品的客户探索和市场验证——识别值得解决的问题，评估机会，并建立投资的商业案例。
- 从概念到发布推出新产品：定义最小可行产品（MVP），设定成功指标，并根据客户和市场反馈快速迭代。
- 管理、指导和培养产品经理和设计师团队；设定明确目标，培养人才，建立工艺和问责的文化。
- 领导设计和用户体验（UX）职能——负责设计质量、一致性，以及Ottimate设计系统在新产品和现有产品中的演进。
- 与工程和数据科学领导者合作
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Reports to:
Chief Product Officer
Location:
United States
About Ottimate
Ottimate is an AI-native accounts payable (AP) automation and payments platform serving mid-market, multi-location operators across hospitality, healthcare, grocery and retail, and client accounting services (CAS). We help finance teams capture, code, approve, and pay invoices with AI handling the repetitive work — across AP automation, Vendor Pay payments, and spend management.
We're PE-backed (FTV Partners) and moving fast toward a more autonomous, agentic future for B2B finance. It's a great time to join and own real surface area early.
About The Role
You'll own the strategy and roadmap for Ottimate's newest product initiatives — the categories that extend our platform beyond AP automation and into the rest of the purchasing lifecycle. This portfolio includes procurement, budgeting and spend planning, contract management, and adjacent capabilities that connect what our customers buy to what they ultimately pay. These are 0-to-1 and early-stage products: you'll define the vision, validate it with customers, and take it to market.
This role also leads our Design and UX function. You'll manage product managers and designers as one team, setting a high bar for craft and ensuring that new products feel coherent, intuitive, and unmistakably Ottimate from day one.
This is a leadership role. You'll set direction for the new-initiatives portfolio, manage and grow a team of product managers and designers, and partner directly with engineering, data science, and go-to-market to expand what Ottimate does for the finance teams who depend on us.
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Ottimate's new-initiatives portfolio, including procurement, budgeting and spend planning, and contract management.
- Lead customer discovery and market validation for new product categories — identify the problems worth solving, size the opportunity, and build the business case for investment.
- Take new products from concept through launch: define MVPs, set success metrics, and iterate quickly based on customer and market feedback.
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of product managers and designers; set clear goals, develop talent, and build a culture of craft and accountability.
- Lead the Design and UX function — own design quality, consistency, and the evolution of Ottimate's design system across new and existing products.
- Partner with engineering and data science leadership on prioritization, sequencing, and delivery; ensure the team ships predictably against committed milestones.
- Collaborate with sales, marketing, and customer success on positioning, pricing inputs, launch readiness, and early customer adoption.
- Define and track portfolio-level metrics; use data to make build/kill/pivot decisions and communicate progress to executive leadership.
- Represent the voice of the customer in executive planning, and represent the product externally with customers, prospects, and partners.
Requirements
- 8+ years in product management, including 3+ years managing product managers, designers, or both.
- Deep experience with B2B SaaS platforms; fluency in workflow, data, or automation products.
- Domain experience in one or more of: procurement / procure-to-pay, budgeting and spend management, contract lifecycle management, or sourcing. This is highly valuable and will be weighted heavily.
- A track record of taking new products from concept to launch — comfort with ambiguity, customer discovery, and building the case for investment before the data exists.
- Demonstrated leadership of design and UX — either direct management of designers or a career-long, hands-on partnership with design organizations, with strong instincts for product craft.
- Strong analytical instincts — comfortable defining metrics, reading product data, and using it to drive decisions.
- Experience working with multi-entity, multi-location, or otherwise operationally complex customers.
- Clear, credible communication with executives, engineers, and customers alike.
- Nice to Have
- Domain knowledge in accounts payable, source-to-pay suites, or finance operations.
- Experience shipping AI/ML-powered features and an intuition for where automation should be confident and where it should ask for help.
- Familiarity with design systems and design ops at scale.
- Exposure to agentic / MCP-based architectures.
- What Success Looks Like
- In your first year, you've taken at least one new product category from concept to paying customers, built a validated roadmap for the broader new-initiatives portfolio, elevated the craft and consistency of Ottimate's product design, and built a combined product and design team that ships with confidence.
Benefits
We care deeply about making Ottimate an incredible place to work and invest a significant amount of time and energy into creating and maintaining a company culture that provides our team with a generous level of support whilst inspiring them to do their best work.
The specific benefits/perks we offer are continually evolving, but currently include:
- Salary Range: USD $175,000-190,000 per year + annual bonus.
- Medical, Dental, Vision and other Company-Subsidized Benefits for you and your family.
- Employer-sponsored 401(k) with company match.
- Paid Time Off (and the encouragement to use it).
- Annual company retreats.
- Promote from within philosophy.
Beyond the tangible benefits, though:
- You will be part of a growing team, at a pinnacle moment of scale for the business, and experience the excitement of working in a startup where each action makes a huge difference.
- You will have the agency to solve difficult problems creatively, the freedom to explore work that inspires you, and infrastructure to ensure you're constantly challenged and developing.
- You will work with sharp, passionate teammates solving some of the most unique challenges and positioning our product as a premier finance automation solution.
- Our commitment to empowering a diverse and inclusive workforce, celebrating differences, and creating a safe space for our employees to bring their whole selves to work is second to note.
- We are transforming entire industries using innovative technology including Artificial Intelligence, Payment Tech, and Neural Networks.
- Our leaders lead with a people-first approach; inspiring excellence, nurturing ideas, and finding creative ways to eliminate obstacles for cultivating growth.
- We truly love what we do and who we do it with - and we think you will too!
Ottimate is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or marital status. If you are excited about the role but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. Nothing in this job posting should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment.
Originally posted on Himalayas