Sr. Product Manager, Core Financial Systems & AI/ML Innovation

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company helping our customers simplify the business of running a business in a rapidly changing environment; freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love. As we lean into our mission to "simplify the business of running a business", WEX is focused on simplifying and reimagining experiences for both our customers and employees.

This is not a maintenance role-it is a mission to build the next generation of WEX's financial architecture. You will be instrumental in a multi-year, company-wide modernization effort, moving us from legacy general ledger and subledger systems to a unified, real-time platform. We are looking for a Sr. Product Manager to own the vision and execution for transforming our core financial ledger systems, including the General Ledger (GL) and Accounts Receivable (AR) subledgers. This role will define the product roadmap, leverage advanced AI/ML capabilities for predictive finance, and directly influence how our entire Finance and FP&A organization operates globally.

About the team:

Come and join the Customer and Enterprise Team as we work to transform our company. We aren't just changing the way customers engage with us, we are transforming and re-imagining our business from within by delivering transformative value at scale. Our team promotes an agile, collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design, and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged.

What you'll do:

• Lead the end-to-end transformation of our core financial infrastructure, unifying the General Ledger and AR subledgers to support a single source of truth for financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and predictive financial modeling.

• Drive the implementation of innovative AI/ML models to introduce predictive finance capabilities, revolutionizing workflows and accelerating financial close processes for Finance and FP&A.

• Define the next-generation user experience for Finance and FP&A teams, ensuring real-time access to detailed financial data and enabling enhanced forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis.

• Deeply understand WEX and our employee needs to define and prioritize the problems to be solved and inspire the broader team

• Partner with scrum teams to align on mission and deliver great results iteratively

• Leverage qualitative and quantitative data, including AI-powered analytics, to measure results, inform roadmaps and achieve benefit, adoption and financial results

• Cross collaborate with product management, analytics, UX, sales/commercial on product research to come up with better and disruptive solutions

• Engage in technical discussions with senior engineers to define product strategy, create value, and impact the direction of products and the business

• Be a trusted partner that can present effectively to high-level stakeholders, set clear priorities and direction, and build bridges across groups

How you'll engage:

• Strategic Mindset: Seek to understand WEX's corporate strategy, the competitive environment and market trends and how our products can create value

• Customer Obsessed: Deeply understand our customers' needs through customer empathy, data and prioritize work

• Results Focused: Leverage data to understand how the product is performing and prioritize work

• Insights Driven: Use qualitative and quantitative insights to drive decisions, define experiments and prioritize roadmap

• Trusted Partner: Appreciate and comprehend different points of view and share information clearly and transparently with strong collaboration while knowing when to escalate

• Relevant Expertise: Brings a deep understanding of the market, applied technologies and domain expertise, with a curiosity and learning mindset

What you'll bring:

• 6 - 10 years of specific product management leader experience (mandatory), ideally with an emphasis on core financial systems (General Ledger, Accounts Receivable) and data systems.

• Proven track record of end-to-end AI/ML product delivery, including defining use cases, managing data science models, and successfully integrating AI capabilities into internal systems.

• Demonstrated experience developing great products and processes, including customer driven innovation, rapid experimentation, prototyping, customer journey mapping, and measuring outcomes. Preferably in the area of financial data models, accounting principles (e.g., accruals, revenue recognition), and how technology drives efficiency in the month-end close process.

• Proven track record of leading multiple highly successful cross-functional teams and delivering different initiatives in parallel that drive value across an organization

• Comfort navigating through ambiguity and changing business environments

• Strong ability to think through unifying elements and common denominators; develop efficient and effective workflows and interfaces with a focus on automation leveraging AI capabilities

• Data driven approach for everything you do; understanding your customers, roadmap prioritization and measuring success

• Ability to work in an agile fashion with your teams; go broad or narrow; build, test, iterate

• Undergraduate degree required, advanced degree is a plus