Product Manager

Ottimate; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

Employer sponsored 401(k)

Paid Time Off

Annual company retreats

Promote from within philosophy

Job summary

Ottimate is seeking a Product Manager based in Kansas City to own a product area from discovery through launch within their AI-native accounts payable platform. You will engage with customers, define product requirements, and work closely with engineering and design teams.

The ideal candidate should have over 2 years of product management experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and a drive for outcomes. This hybrid role offers competitive benefits and a dynamic work environment in a growing startup.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in product management, ideally on B2B SaaS or workflow-heavy products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a drive to own outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and outcomes for your product area.
• Run discovery by talking to customers.
• Write specs and user stories.

Skills

Product management experience

Analytical skills

Communication skills

User engagement

Problem-solving

Education

2+ years in product management

Job description

Reports to:

Director of Product Management

Location:

First Priority: Candidates based in Kansas City for a hybrid schedule.

Second Priority: Candidates residing anywhere within the United States for a remote role.

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 a defined product area within the Ottimate platform end to end — from discovery through launch and iteration. You'll talk to customers, find the problems worth solving, work with engineering and design to ship, and measure whether what you shipped actually moved the needle. This is a hands‑on role for someone who wants to grow quickly and have visible impact on a product real finance teams use every day.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap, backlog, and outcomes for your product area, in partnership with engineering and design.
• Run discovery — talk to customers and internal teams, dig into product data, and turn what you learn into well‑scoped problems and clear requirements.
• Write crisp specs and user stories, and make day‑to‑day prioritization and trade‑off calls.
• Partner with engineering through the full delivery cycle, keeping work unblocked and focused on outcomes.
• Define success metrics for what you ship, instrument them, and report on results honestly.
• Work with customer success, support, and sales to understand how your area performs in the real world and where it needs to improve.
• Contribute to the broader product strategy with ideas grounded in customer reality.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in product management, ideally on B2B SaaS or workflow‑heavy products.
• A bias toward talking to users and a habit of grounding decisions in evidence rather than opinion.
• Solid analytical skills — comfortable digging into data to understand behavior and measure impact.
• Strong written and verbal communication; you can align engineers, designers, and stakeholders around a clear plan.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a drive to own outcomes, not just outputs.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to fintech, AP/AR, ERP, accounting, or other finance‑adjacent products.
• Familiarity with AI/ML‑powered features and how to reason about them as a PM.
• Experience working with operationally complex or multi‑location customers.

What Success Looks Like

In your first year, you've taken full ownership of your area, shipped improvements that customers feel and that show up in the metrics, and earned the trust to take on more scope.

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.

Benefits

• Salary Range: USD $100,000–130,000 per year.
• 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

• 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.