Product Manager

About

Candex is a rapidly growing private global B2B fintech company on a mission to reshape the way businesses transact. Our tech-based solution makes purchasing fast and easy for enterprise buyers. Recognized in the ProcureTech 100 for Procurement Innovation, our SaaS Platform and accompanying services completely transform the buying experience for large companies around the globe. Buyers enjoy the simplicity of Candex for their purchases, vendors get paid faster, and procurement teams love the increased control they gain over purchases — Everyone wins!

We serve companies in the Global 2,000 and our existing clients include some of the world’s biggest corporations. We’ve raised over $85M from leading investors including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, American Express, Altos, Craft, and NFX. Available in almost 50 countries, Candex is expanding our already robust footprint and is looking for ambitious, fun people to join us on our mission to revolutionize the way businesses engage and pay their suppliers.

The Role

Product at Candex means solving our most pressing problems, from launching revenue generating (and client facing) features, to upgrading UI/UX to improve customer experience, to automating and supporting back-office activities.You will own the design of our product enhancements, and help drive the strategy of our product.

Responsibilities

This role entails comprehensively understanding our major issues, building & iteratively refining “specs”, and thinking through the communication & materials needed for new product enhancements :

Problem Identification & Prioritization:

• Proactively identify opportunities for product enhancements that could increase the scope of where Candex can be used, improve automation in our product, and increase the value & efficiencies created for our clients
• Collaborate with leadership to understand their needs, as an input to prioritization
• Organize projects and tasks and effectively triage to manage competing priorities
  
  

• Collaborate with the right people to fully understand the problem at hand
• Work with the tech team, design team, and company leadership to solution the problem
• Collaborate with team members to create “specs” for all projects sent to the technical team for production
  
  

• Develop the right materials to launch product enhancements with clients
• Identify where clients aren’t leveraging enhancements because they don’t know it exists / how to use it & create communications for them to learn
• Manage communications with the technical team and oversee the process end-to-end to ensure actual production matches the agreed-upon specifications
• Analyze data on usage to learn and prioritize
  
  

• Have a good eye for detail, don’t let things fall through the cracks, and have an amazing memory
• Know how to start a complicated project from scratch
• Are extremely organized
• Have stellar instincts for design & operational processes
• Can translate business-facing “specs” into something developers can work with
• Are great with language skills (e.g., good naming, good writing, etc.)
• Get excited about digging into a problem and do good research
• Are always thinking how you can improve things
• Can think in numbers & equations – math is easy and fun for you
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, or quantitative-centric fields (extra advantage for math, engineering, computer science, etc.)
• At least 5+ years experience in technical, problem-solving focused roles (including product management, product-focused software engineering, consulting, etc.)
• Start up experience is a plus
• Intellectual curiosity - you are intrinsically driven to understand and solve the most difficult problems
  
  

• We are humble, hungry, intelligent and collaborative
• Home Office Setup
• Team-building off-sites and outings