Chief Product Officer, Software

Requirements

MarketPro has partnered with a multi-billion-dollar global leader in corporate payments and expense management in the search for its next Chief Product Officer. This executive will lead the transformation of the company’s Spend Management division into a world-class, software-led platform—combining exceptional scale, proprietary data, broad distribution, and sophisticated payments infrastructure with intuitive customer experiences, rapid innovation, and intelligent automation.

Build the product engine that defines the next era of business spend.

This is an enterprise-level build mandate for a technical, customer-obsessed product executive who can translate ambitious ideas into elegant software, establish a modern product operating model, and enable teams to prototype, learn, and deliver at exceptional speed.
The Opportunity

A multi-billion-dollar, publicly traded global leader in corporate payments and expense management serves hundreds of thousands of business customers worldwide. Strong growth and an accelerating strategic focus on corporate payments and spend management create a highly visible opportunity to combine exceptional scale, proprietary data, broad distribution, and sophisticated payments infrastructure with a best-in-class software experience.

Within the Spend Management division, the company brings commercial cards, accounts payable automation, expense workflows, controls, reconciliation, mobile capabilities, and reporting together across an integrated product portfolio. The next chapter is to unify these capabilities around a modern, AI-powered platform that finance teams and employees genuinely prefer to use.
The Leadership Mandate
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Set a category-defining product vision. Create a differentiated, multi-year strategy that anticipates customer needs, establishes new sources of value, and positions the company among the most innovative B2B fintech and spend-management platforms.

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Make software experience a competitive advantage. Champion a simple, coherent, and highly intuitive user experience across web and mobile—reducing friction for finance teams, employees, administrators, and partners.

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Build a high-velocity product operating model. Establish the rituals, decision rights, architecture partnership, and metrics that enable rapid prototyping, frequent releases, disciplined learning, and reliable delivery.

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Embed AI into the product—and the way products are built. Identify practical, high-value applications of AI across automation, controls, reconciliation, insights, fraud prevention, service, and product-development workflows.

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Connect product choices to enterprise value. Own a product portfolio and roadmap measured by customer adoption, retention, revenue, margin, speed, and strategic differentiation.

What You Will Own
- Define and communicate the end-to-end product vision, strategy, portfolio priorities, and roadmap for the Spend Management division.

- Translate customer problems, market shifts, competitive dynamics, and the company’s distinctive assets into focused product bets with clear business cases.

- Lead the evolution toward a unified, scalable SaaS platform spanning expense management, commercial cards, accounts payable automation, mobile workflows, controls, and analytics.

- Partner deeply with engineering leadership on platform architecture, technical trade offs, delivery capacity, quality, security, and the transition from third-party support to durable internal product-engineering capability.

- Create an AI product agenda that improves customer outcomes and operational leverage while applying appropriate governance, data discipline, and risk controls.

- Raise the standard for product discovery, design, UX research, experimentation, prototyping, roadmap governance, and release management.

- Establish a transparent product scorecard spanning activation, engagement, adoption, retention, customer satisfaction, delivery velocity, quality, revenue con