Senior Product Manager, Spend Management (Travel & Expense)

AppZen, Inc.•Santa Clara, CA

1d•$180,000 - $225,000

About The Position

AppZen is seeking a Senior Product Manager to define how its spend management products help enterprises control, understand, and optimize spend, with a particular focus on travel. The role spans the full spend lifecycle: pre-trip approval and policy, booking and in-trip spend, and expense reconciliation and analytics. The goal is to provide finance and travel leaders with real-time visibility and control while keeping the experience convenient for travelers. The Senior Product Manager will shape product strategy and roadmap across expense, corporate card, and purchasing workflows; develop expertise in the travel and spend management market; and design AI-driven capabilities for finance leaders, travel managers, approvers, and employees. The role also owns integrations and translates complex enterprise requirements into scalable product capabilities, partnering with cross-functional teams from concept through customer adoption. AppZen values candidates who actively use AI tools to enhance productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and solve problems more efficiently.

Requirements

5+ years of product management experience, including meaningful time focused on corporate travel, travel and expense (T&E), spend management, or corporate cards.
Hands-on experience building B2B travel or spend management products for mid-market or enterprise organizations.
Strong understanding of the corporate travel ecosystem, including TMCs, online booking tools, GDS and supplier data, travel policy, and connections between travel, card, and expense data.
Strong understanding of the spend lifecycle, including policy, requests and approvals, transaction capture, categorization, reconciliation, and reporting.
Experience taking at least one travel or spend management product or major capability from concept through production launch.
Familiarity with the market landscape, such as SAP Concur, Navan, Amex GBT, Emburse, Ramp, and Brex, and ability to explain where products win and lose.
Experience designing for multiple personas, including finance leaders, travel managers, approvers, and travelers, while balancing control with ease of use.
Strong product judgment, including prioritizing competing customer needs and making build-versus-partner decisions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

Background at a TMC, online booking tool, travel supplier, or T&E platform.
Experience applying AI/ML to finance or travel workflows, such as audit, anomaly detection, or classification.
Experience with corporate card programs, virtual cards for travel (lodged or central travel accounts), or card-issuing platforms.
Background in global or multi-entity travel programs, including multi-currency, VAT/GST reclaim, regional policy, or duty of care.
Experience integrating with ERP, HRIS, travel, or procurement systems, such as Oracle, SAP, Workday, or NetSuite.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Define the product strategy and roadmap for AppZen's spend management capabilities, with travel spend as a core focus, across expense, corporate card, and purchasing workflows.
Develop a deep understanding of the travel and spend management market, including competitors, TMCs, booking platforms, and customer buying criteria, to identify opportunities for differentiation.
Design pre-trip and at-spend controls, including travel requests and approvals, booking policies, per diems, budgets, and spend limits.
Connect the trip lifecycle by matching bookings, TMC data, card transactions, and expense reports, and identify duplicates, missing receipts, and spend outside approved channels.
Define AI-driven automation across the spend lifecycle, including transaction categorization, policy-violation and anomaly detection, and action recommendations within enterprise governance requirements.
Build travel and spend analytics that provide finance and travel leaders with actionable visibility by traveler, department, supplier, route, and budget.
Own integrations with booking tools, TMCs, card programs, ERPs, HRIS, and procurement systems.
Translate complex enterprise requirements, including global travel policy, multi-entity needs, VAT reclaim, duty of care, and audit, into scalable product capabilities.
Partner with Engineering, Design, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing to bring capabilities from concept through customer adoption and define success metrics.