Aptitude Software - Senior Product Manager

Aptitude Software; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptitude Software is seeking a Senior Product Manager to define the vision, strategy and roadmap for a new strategic area of the Fynapse platform. You will work with Engineering, Design, Finance SMEs and customers to discover, shape investments and deliver meaningful outcomes.

You’ll drive product discovery and lead a highly specialised domain, mentoring fellow Product Managers and raising product practices across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering product discovery and shaping roadmaps for complex software platforms.
• Strong ability to translate customer needs into product solutions and measurable outcomes.
• Proven track record of mentoring product managers and raising product capability.

Responsibilities

• Define vision, strategy and roadmap for a new strategic area of Fynapse.
• Lead discovery activities to understand customer needs and reduce delivery risk.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Finance SMEs and customers to shape investments.
• Coach and support Product Managers to raise product capability across the team.
• Influence stakeholder decisions with evidence-based thinking and structured leadership.
• Own and shape the domain’s direction, balancing customer outcomes, technical sustainability and commercial priorities.

Skills

B2B SaaS

Product discovery

Roadmap management

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Leadership

Communication

Job description

About The Role

As Senior Product Manager, you'll be responsible for defining the vision, strategy and roadmap for a new strategic area of Fynapse; ensuring we continue to solve the right customer problems while supporting the long-term evolution of the platform.

About The Role

As Senior Product Manager, you'll be responsible for defining the vision, strategy and roadmap for a new strategic area of Fynapse; ensuring we continue to solve the right customer problems while supporting the long-term evolution of the platform. Working closely with Engineering, Product Design, Finance Subject Matter Experts and customers, you'll lead product discovery, shape investments and deliver meaningful outcomes. You'll also play an important role in strengthening product management practices across the team, helping to coach and support fellow Product Managers. This role is ideal for a Product Manager who enjoys owning complex platform capabilities and can bring strong product leadership to a highly specialised domain. While accounting experience is beneficial, we're looking first and foremost for someone with excellent product management skills who can navigate complexity, influence stakeholders and drive outcomes. You will be expected to provide leadership within the Product function, mentoring Product Managers and helping raise the quality of product practices across the organisation.

What You'll Do

Product strategy and vision

• Define and evolve the vision, strategy and roadmap for a new strategic area
• Identify opportunities to expand and mature capabilities in support of future platform growth.
• Align product investments and shape the long-term direction of the domain, balancing customer outcomes, technical sustainability and commercial priorities.

Discovery and product development

• Lead discovery activities to understand customer needs, validate opportunities and reduce delivery risk.
• Translate complex business and accounting requirements into intuitive product solutions.
• Use customer insight, data and research to inform product decisions and prioritisation.

Delivery and collaboration

• Partner closely with Engineering, Go to Market teams and Product Design to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Manage dependencies and trade-offs across teams, stakeholders and product domains.
• Build strong relationships with customers, partners and subject matter experts to ensure we are solving the right problems.

Leadership and product excellence

• Champion strong product management practices across the organisation.
• Coach and support Product Managers, helping to raise product capability within the team.
• Bring structure, clarity and direction to complex problems and ambiguous situations.
• Influence decision-making through effective stakeholder engagement and evidence-based thinking.

Why join us?

• Own and shape one of the most strategically important domains within the Fynapse platform.
• Solve complex customer and business challenges with real-world impact.
• Help define the next generation of accounting capabilities that will support the future growth of the platform.
• Influence the future direction of a growing enterprise product.
• Work alongside experienced product, design, engineering and finance specialists.
• Help raise the standard of product management across the organisation.

Job requirements

What You'll Bring

• Experience managing and evolving complex B2B SaaS products.
• Strong product discovery, prioritisation and roadmap management skills.
• Experience working closely with teams on technical, functional or platform-focused products.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience managing, mentoring or supporting other Product Managers.
• A track record of delivering meaningful customer and business outcomes.