Senior Product Manager, Easy Scalable Configuration
Remote
Technology – Product Management /
Full-time /
Remote
At Center, we’re building forward-looking technology to simplify how people work. Our transformative expense management solution is purposely built and offers three important advantages: it eliminates expense reporting for employees, radically reduces the amount of time needed to process expenses in the finance department, and offers real-time reporting and insights to drive cost-savings, analyze trends, and hit budget targets.
The Center team believes that great businesses are built by people who share common values. For us that means a passion for invention, a deep commitment to the customer, integrity, and operating with a sense of care and respect for one another. Working at Center you'll be joining a team that is intellectually curious, has a high degree of personal ownership and accountability, and values teamwork and collaboration.
Why Center?
Center is a hyper-growth SaaS company backed by the co-founder of Concur. We constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees to thrive and do great work. We are a distributed workforce and have two amazing workspaces in Bellevue, WA and Minneapolis, MN.
The Senior Product Manager for Easy Scalable Configuration plays a critical role in Center’s mission to simplify spend management for businesses of all sizes. In today’s dynamic business environment, the ability to customize and configure software platforms without extensive technical know-how is not just a convenience—it’s a necessity. This role is pivotal in ensuring our spend management platform can be seamlessly adapted to fit our diverse customer base's unique workflows and needs. By leading the development of intuitive and scalable configuration solutions, you will directly contribute to reducing implementation times, increasing user satisfaction, and driving product adoption. Your work will ensure that Center remains at the forefront of innovation in spend management technology, making financial operations more efficient and empowering businesses to focus on growth.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead Product Vision & Strategy: Craft and execute the product strategy for our "Easy Scalable Configuration" theme, ensuring alignment with Center’s overarching goals and market needs.
- Drive Product Development: Spearhead the lifecycle of scalable solutions, focusing on customization, automation, and user experience to streamline platform setup and usage.
- Collaborate & Innovate: Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, customer success, and other cross-functional partners to develop a suite of scalable and flexible solutions. Ensure these solutions enhance platform adaptability and seamlessly meet businesses' diverse needs.
- Customer-Centric Design: Utilize customer feedback and analytics to continuously improve configuration processes, aiming for automation and ease of use.
- Solution-Oriented Leadership: Identify and address configuration challenges, reducing setup time and enhancing customer satisfaction. Lead cross-functional teams to deliver a comprehensive features suite that bolsters the platform’s configurability.
- Unified Vision Steering: Manage alignment and understanding of priorities, business strategy, project status, trade-off decisions, and investment with stakeholders.
- Adapt & Evolve: Keep abreast of market trends and technology advancements to ensure Center’s solutions remain competitive and responsive to customer needs.
Who You Are:
- You have a formal education in Business, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- You bring 5+ years of demonstrated success in Product Management, excelling in business leadership and growth strategies, and have a history of significant leadership in evolving and expanding processes within late-stage startups or major enterprises.
- You demonstrate a strong business aptitude, able to describe business lines, product lines, revenue models, growth models, and other critical business metrics of the companies you have worked for.
- You’re skilled in leading product development from ideation to launch, with a strong portfolio of managing product enhancements that improve configurability and user experience.
- You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills. You can explain your approach and the impact of your work to non-technical stakeholders in a clear way and achieve consensus.
- You possess excellent analytical abilities, leveraging customer insights and data to drive product decisions.
- Your leadership skills enable you to work effectively across functions, inspiring teams to deliver high-quality products.
- You’re adept in agile methodologies and product lifecycle management, emphasizing rapid iteration and customer feedback.
- You’re innovative, constantly seeking to develop and implement solutions that simplify complex processes and make systems more intuitive and adaptable for users.
Why be on the Product team at Center?
- Impact: Work on a product that helps companies save time and money by simplifying spend management.
- Growth: Be part of a fast-growing startup with a product that's gaining traction in a large and expanding market.
- Culture: Join a team that values innovation, accountability, and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits package.
$120,000 - $200,000 a year
We offer an excellent compensation package for all Center employees. This includes competitive salary, performance bonus, generous paid time off, comprehensive health benefits and 401(k) participation.
The role's pay transparency salary range is $120,000 - $200,000 annually plus bonus and stock options. In addition, Center offers a Self-Managed PTO plan, 9 Paid Holiday’s, Paid Parental Leave, Commuter Stipend, and health care benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Long Term Disability, Base Life, AD&D, FSA, Commuter and 401(k).
Why Center?
· Backed by the co-founder of Concur
· All team members have the opportunity to make a critical impact at an early stage business
· An experienced management team that understands the space and knows how to build high performing teams
· Ownership through stock option grants
· Competitive base salary compensation package
· Comprehensive health insurance plan
· Flexible, self-managed PTO policy
· 401k program
· Great co-workers and a collaborative team that is passionate about helping every business to get the most out of every dollar they spend!
Center is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
