Spendesk
Principal Product Manager - AI - London
Job Description
Salary: £30,000 - 32,000 per year
Requirements:- Extensive product management experience, including complex products, platforms, or cross-functional product systems, ideally in B2B SaaS or fintech.
- A track record of shaping strategy beyond a single squad and turning it into sustained customer and business outcomes.
- Experience with AI, ML, automation, or data products; you should understand model capabilities, limitations, evaluation, data dependencies, and operational risk, though you do not need to be an ML engineer.
- Strong judgment in ambiguous situations and the ability to distinguish important problems from attractive distractions.
- Ability to structure complex systems, workflows, and stakeholder landscapes, then make key trade-offs clear.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to align senior leaders and make complex strategy actionable.
- Proven ability to influence without authority and improve the judgment of people around you.
- Strong ownership of quality, trust, security, and the consequences of product decisions.
- Entrepreneurial spirit and readiness to help shape an early-stage company story.
- Define durable AI product direction across several product areas, connecting customer problems, company priorities, technical realities, and commercial opportunities.
- Identify consequential problems that extend beyond a single squad and frame them as focused, evidence-backed bets.
- Assess where AI can create value through faster work, greater reliability, or new intelligence, and explain why AI is preferable to deterministic automation.
- Make trade-offs visible across value, adoption, quality, risk, data readiness, capacity, and opportunity cost.
- Own outcomes end to end, including baselines, targets, quality guardrails, launches, adoption, and post-release learning.
- Bring coherence to a portfolio of agents and AI features, as well as the shared data foundations behind them.
- Partner with Engineering, Design, Data, Security, Finance, and go-to-market teams to clarify ownership, decision rights, and dependencies.
- Support other PMs and squads through thought partnership, reusable principles, and clear product narratives that reduce dependency on the AI squad.
- AI
- Support
- Product Manager
- Security
More:
Were hiring a Principal Product Manager, a senior individual contributor who will shape how AI creates value for our customers and for Spendesk across multiple squads. Youll join our AI & Data Products squad, which builds pragmatic AI features and agents to make Spendesk smarter, faster, and more reliable, with success measured by adoption and outcomes. We offer the opportunity to influence how AI transforms spend management and procurement for businesses across Europe, work on high-impact problems, and contribute in a culture that values autonomy, trust, and fast delivery without compromising quality. Spendesk is an AI-powered spend management and procurement platform that brings together procurement, payment cards, expense management, invoice processing, and accounting automation. We support more than 200,000 users across thousands of companies, with offices in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Germany. Our international team values ownership, curiosity, kindness, and a positive approach to challenges. Were committed to building a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome. Benefits include flexible on-site and remote work, partially funded lunches, health insurance, a Gymlib pass, access to Moka.care wellbeing support, Apple equipment, and office snacks.
last updated 39 week of 2026
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£80,000
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This salary is 61% below the UK median for Managers (£80,000/yr).
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