Principal Product Manager - AI

Spendesk; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible on-site and remote policy

Competitive health insurance

Job summary

Spendesk is seeking a Principal Product Manager to shape how AI creates real value for customers and Spendesk. You will work across squads within the AI & Data Products group, guiding durable AI strategies, bets, and outcomes while influencing without formal authority.

You’ll own portfolio coherence, set baselines and targets, and partner with Engineering, Design, Data, Security, Finance, and GTM to clarify ownership and dependencies. This is a senior IC role emphasizing strategy and impact.

Qualifications

• Extensive product management experience across complex products or cross-functional systems.
• Track record of shaping strategy beyond a single squad into sustained outcomes.
• Experience with AI, ML, automation, or data products; understands model capabilities and risks.

Responsibilities

• Define durable AI product direction across multiple areas, aligning customer problems with priorities and commercial opportunities.
• Frame and validate bets that span several squads, backed by evidence and data.
• Determine where AI adds value (speed, reliability, intelligence) and justify using AI over deterministic automation.
• Make trade-offs across value, adoption, quality, risk, data readiness, and capacity.
• Own outcomes end to end: baselines, targets, launch, adoption, and post-release learning.
• Unify a portfolio of agents, AI features, and shared data foundations.
• Clarify ownership and dependencies with Engineering, Design, Data, Security, Finance, and GTM teams.
• Mentor and amplify other PMs and squads through reusable principles and clear narratives.

Skills

Product management

Strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Influence without authority

Ambiguity handling

Portfolio management

Tools

AI/ML concepts

Job description

We’ll looking for a Principal Product Manager to shape how AI creates real value for our customers and for Spendesk, working across squads rather than inside a single one.

You’ll join the AI & Data Products squad, which builds AI features and agents that make Spendesk smarter, faster, and more reliable. Its ambition is a step-change in leverage for our customers and teams, shipped pragmatically and judged on adoption and outcomes.

This is a senior individual contributor role. You won’t rely on formal authority or direct reports. Instead, you’ll raise the quality of product decisions across multiple areas through strategy, systems thinking, evidence, and influence.

What You’ll Do

• Define durable AI product direction across several product areas, connecting customer problems, company priorities, technical reality, and commercial opportunity.
• Identify consequential problems that aren’t visible from a single squad, and frame them into focused, evidence-backed bets.
• Qualify where AI genuinely wins: accelerating work, improving reliability, or creating new intelligence, and be explicit about why AI rather than deterministic automation.
• Make trade-offs visible across value, adoption, quality, risk, data readiness, capacity, and opportunity cost.
• Own outcomes end to end: baselines, targets, quality guardrails, launch, adoption, and post-release learning.
• Bring coherence to a portfolio of agents, AI features, and the shared data foundations behind them.
• Partner with Engineering, Design, Data, Security, Finance, and go-to-market teams to clarify ownership, decision rights, and dependencies.
• Multiply other PMs and squads through thought partnership, reusable principles, and clear product narratives that reduce dependency on the AI squad.

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive product management experience, including complex products, platforms, or cross-functional product systems, ideally in B2B SaaS or fintech.
• A track record of shaping strategy beyond a single squad and turning it into sustained customer and business outcomes.
• Experience with AI, ML, automation, or data products. You don’t need to be an ML engineer, but you should understand model capabilities, limits, evaluation, data dependencies, and operational risk.
• Strong judgement in ambiguity, with the instinct to separate important problems from attractive distractions.
• Ability to structure complex systems, workflows, and stakeholder landscapes, then make the key trade-offs simple.
• Excellent communication and storytelling: you align senior leaders and make complex strategy actionable.
• Proven influence without authority, and a habit of improving the judgement of people around you.
• Strong ownership of quality, trust, security, and the consequences of product decisions.
• Entrepreneurs. We rely on entrepreneurial spirit always as we are still on chapter 1 of our story.

Why Join Us

• Shape how AI transforms spend management and procurement for thousands of businesses across Europe.
• Work on high-impact problems where intelligent automation removes real operational effort.
• Influence direction across squads while staying close to customers and to delivery reality.
• Join a culture that values autonomy, trust, and shipping fast, without losing sight of quality.

About Spendesk

Spendesk is the AI-powered spend management and procurement platform that transforms company spending. By simplifying procurement, payment cards, expense management, invoice processing, and accounting automation, Spendesk sets the new standard for spending at work. Its single, intelligent solution makes efficient spending easy for employees and gives finance leaders the full visibility and control they need across all company spend, even in multi-entity structures. Trusted by thousands of companies, Spendesk supports over 200,000 users across brands such as SoundCloud, Gousto, SumUp, and Bloom & Wild. With offices in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany, Spendesk also puts community at the heart of its mission.

For more information: www.spendesk.com/press

About our people & culture

We believe that people do their best work when they’re given the freedom to thrive and grow. That’s why liberation is at the core of everything we do. We empower Spendeskers to take ownership of their work, to navigate ambiguity, and seize every opportunity. Spendeskers come from all over the world (35+ countries and counting!) but we have plenty in common: we're bold, ever-curious, committed to kindness, and tackle every challenge with a positive mindset.

About our benefits

Our culture is built on trust, empowerment, and growth — with benefits to match!

Flexible on-site and remote policy

Lunch 60% funded by Spendesk (Swile Card)

Alan Premium health insurance

A Gymlib pass to let off steam after a productive day at work

Access to Moka.care for emotional and mental health wellbeing

Latest Apple equipment

Great office snacks to fuel your day

A positive team to work with daily!

Diversity & Inclusion

At Spendesk, we're committed to fostering an environment where all differences are encouraged, supported and celebrated. We're building our culture for everyone, with everyone. Our goal is to attract and build a diverse, equal and inclusive team, where everyone feels welcome and we truly embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.