Staff Product Manager - Travel & Spend
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Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we're on a mission to power real work, with real impact. We're trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we're tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem . Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work. At Perk, we're driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you're excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we'd love you on the team. Visit www.perk.com to learn more. At Perk, we believe in empowering cross-functional teams that drive exceptional results for our customers and the company. We're transforming how work gets done by eliminating tedious manual processes in travel, spend, and events. As a Product Manager at Perk, you will play a pivotal role in driving innovation by identifying opportunities, shaping product strategy, and leading execution. You'll work closely with customers, stakeholders, and lean product development teams to build best in class solutions for our users. We are currently looking for a Staff Product Manager to join our Travel & Spend product team and redefine the standard for how modern businesses manage their money on the move. While most companies treat "Travel" and "Expenses" as two separate, clunky silos, your mission is to merge them into a single, seamless flow. This isn't about incremental improvements; it's about building an end-to-end experience that removes friction and complexity, from budgeting and instant approvals to frictionless submission, payments and automated reconciliation. As a Staff Product Manager, you will own a strategic area of our product, driving growth for our Spend product. This is a role for a builder who thrives in the "grey area." You will navigate high levels of ambiguity, deeply research unmet user needs, and orchestrate execution across multiple product squads.
Responsibilities
- Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for our Spend ecosystem
- Drive high-velocity execution with a world class team of making bold, fast bets informed customer feedback, data, market research, and deep intuition for how AI can reshape how teams operate
- Use customer insights with technical possibilities, crafting intuitive user experiences that simplify the user experience
- Help millions of employees and thousands of finance teams seamlessly manage expenses, cards, and invoice processing.
- Prototype rapidly using tools like Claude and Cursor to accelerate the product development lifecycle and fast-forward to production-ready products.
- Stay deeply plugged into AI research, industry trends, and emergent applications, filtering signal from noise and applying it creatively to Perk products
- Empower Your Team: Lead with a servant-leadership approach help stay focused, remove distractions, and foster creativity and collaboration
Requirements
- Strong customer empathy and design thinking, with a passion to understand the entire expense lifecycle - from the moment of spend inception through automated reconciliation to final posting in the ERP system - and the specific friction points unique to complex accounting workflows
- Fluency in data and how to make data-driven product decisions
- Experience evaluating product decisions and prioritization trade-offs
- Demonstrated ability to lead and influence small teams of engineers & designers toward a common goal
- Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders and large cross-functional teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Passion for AI, shown through hands-on building, prototyping, or side projects, and staying current on research and tools.
- Fluency with modern prototyping tools (e.g. Cursor, Bolt, Claude Code) and comfort with design/collaboration environments like Figma and Git.
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