Director, Product Management

BlackLine Systems, Inc.; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 257,000 - 322,000; Full time

Job summary

BlackLine is seeking a Director, Product Management to lead the next generation of our Financial Close suite, guiding vision, strategy, and a multi-year roadmap. You will drive an agentic close with governance, working across Engineering, Design, Data Science, and GTM to expand the platform beyond today’s boundaries.

You will own success metrics such as adoption, automation rates, and ARR, reporting to the VP, Product Management, Record-to-Report.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in enterprise SaaS product management.
• 5-7+ years in a leadership role overseeing small teams.
• Proven track record launching AI/ML products.

Responsibilities

• Define vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap.
• Lead AI-enabled close platform development with governance.
• Partner with Eng, Design, Data Science, and GTM.
• Own business outcomes like revenue, adoption, and ARR.

Skills

AI/ML product development

Executive communication

Product leadership

Enterprise SaaS

Roadmap & strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, CS or Business

MBA or CPA/CA preferred

Job description

Make Your Mark: At BlackLine, we enable the success of our customers through meaningful digital transformation of the office of the CFO. We are seeking a Director, Product Management to lead the next generation of our Financial Close suite as we build the agentic financial operations platform that will define the future of accounting and finance. Reporting to the VP, Product Management, Record-to-Report, you will own the product vision and strategy for BlackLine's Financial Close suite, including account reconciliations, transaction matching, and journal entry. You will lead a multi-layered product team and partner across Engineering, Design, Data Science, and Go-to-Market to deliver the fastest, most efficient, and most accurate close in the market, powered by AI agents working under the accountant's governance and extending the suite well beyond its current boundaries.

You'll Get To:

• Vision and strategy: Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap to deliver the fastest, most efficient, and most accurate close in the market, reimagining how accounting work gets done and freeing the accounting function to become a strategic value provider to the business.
• Agentic close: Shift reconciliation, matching, and journal work from manual effort to AI agents operating under the accountant's governance, advancing customers toward a continuous close where agents power the majority of close activities.
• Beyond today's boundaries: Expand the suite beyond its current core by moving upstream of the ledger to control transactional detail at its source, extending into adjacent Record-to-Report workflows, and capturing new industries.
• Composable platform: Modernize products and configuration experiences into composable capabilities callable across the platform; partner with platform, AI/ML, and data teams on agent orchestration, ERP-agnostic connectivity, and a context graph that strengthens our competitive moat.
• Industry specialization: Build industry-specific solutions for high-volume, complex sectors such as banking, financial services, and retail, closing matching and substantiation gaps for the world's largest enterprises.
• Trust and control: Embed transparency, auditability, and governance into every AI capability to meet SOX, audit, and internal control requirements.
• Go-to-market and outcomes: Partner with Product Marketing, Sales, Pricing, and Customer Success on packaging, pricing, and positioning for agentic offerings; own business cases, OKRs, and success metrics (e.g., adoption, automation rates, close cycle time, ARR) and represent BlackLine externally.

Leadership:

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of product managers; foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and AI-native product practices such as rapid prototyping and evaluation-driven development (setting measurable quality benchmarks up front to validate AI capabilities before and after release).

What You'll Bring:

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Business, or a related field; MBA, CPA, or CA a plus. 15+ years of product management experience in enterprise SaaS, including 5-7+ years in a leadership role managing small teams. Proven track record bringing AI/ML products to market, ideally including generative AI or agentic capabilities, from discovery through launch, adoption, and monetization. Strong working knowledge of AI product development, including LLM and agent architectures, evaluation and quality measurement, human-in-the-loop design, data requirements, and responsible AI. Deep domain expertise in financial close and record-to-report, including: Core close and adjacent processes, including reconciliation, matching, journal entries, intercompany, leases (ASC 842, IFRS 16), fixed assets, and revenue recognition (ASC 606, IFRS 15). Accounting principles (GAAP, IFRS), internal controls, SOX compliance, and audit requirements. Highly preferred: working knowledge of accounting and finance practices in banking, financial services, or retail, such as high-volume transaction matching, balance substantiation, and industry regulatory requirements. Experience modernizing legacy products into composable, platform-based architectures, including transitioning customers into new capabilities. Expert strategic thinking and executive communication skills, with demonstrated ownership of business outcomes (revenue, adoption, retention) for a product line or portfolio. Working Conditions Standard office job, mostly sedentary in nature.

Working Conditions

Standard office job, mostly sedentary in nature.

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation! A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives. A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity. BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.

Location & Remote:

Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.

Salary Range:

$257,000.00-$322,000.00

Pay Transparency Statement:

Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans. We are committed to pay transparency and ensuring candidates have clear information about compensation expectations. For roles that include variable incentive components such as an Incentive Compensation Plan (ICP) or On-Target Earnings (OTE), the compensation structure may follow a split model – for example, a 50/50, 70/30, or 60/40 ratio between base salary and variable incentive.

Accommodations:

BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.

Recruitment Process:

At BlackLine, we follow a comprehensive recruitment process which is undertaken by our talent acquisition team. We conduct personal interviews of all potential job seekers and do not follow practice of making employment offers based solely on a candidate’s resume. We do not solicit any payment under the name of security deposit and/or visa/work-permit processing fee, etc., either refundable or non-refundable, at any stage of the recruitment process.

Important Notice:

Job seekers are requested to be vigilant of any fraudulent or suspicious activities in protection of their interest. BlackLine shall not be held liable for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, incurred as a result of this act.