Director of Product - Approvals, AI & Integrations

About the role

ApprovalMax is a B2B SaaS platform that gives finance teams control over their approvals, with deep integrations into Xero, QuickBooks Online and NetSuite. It is a profitable, scaling company building AI into its product. The Director of Product owns the core approval workflow surfaces, the implementation of the AI strategy across workflows, the integrations to accounting systems and the new Expense Management product, and leads the two Product Managers on those lines. The role is fully remote.

Key responsibilities

• Own the roadmap, delivery and quality of the approval-workflow product, AI delivery, accounting-system integrations and expense management, and lead the big initiatives within them.
• Lead and develop two Product Managers and own accurate reporting, milestones and deliverables.
• Drive automation and autonomy by designing, shipping and refining rule-based and AI automation that users trust.
• Prepare the business case for future roadmap investments and work with product marketing to deliver betas and launches.
• Own how the team hears and acts on customer feedback and how the Product team reports on meeting customer needs.
• Be a guiding example of best practice for learning user needs, building roadmaps, running product operations and taking products to market.

Required profile

• Strong product leadership: has led product squads and managed Product Managers, and can run an area and make the call.
• Experience in workflow, expense and/or spend-management products.
• Deep workflow product background, ideally from the accounting or spend ecosystem (Sage, Xero, QBO, Lightyear, Expensify, Dext or similar).
• Strong automation and AI product experience, having designed and shipped rule-based and agentic AI automation.
• Comfortable working within an established Product Manager and Product Engineer delivery flow; senior and autonomous.
• B2B SaaS experience in a scale-up environment.
• Nice to have: fintech, accounting or finance-adjacent domain knowledge beyond the core accounting systems.

What we offer

• Salary up to £130,000 depending on experience and location.
• Fully funded healthcare cover.
• Health & Wellbeing benefit stipend.
• One-off £500 home office setup reimbursement after successful probation.
• 26 days of paid annual leave plus 1 day birthday leave.
• Service-years recognition financial reward.