Full-Time

Senior Group Product Manager

Financial Services

Updated on 8/1/2026

Pennylane

Pennylane

1,001-5,000 employees

Real-time accounting platform for SMBs

No salary listed

Remote in France

Remote

Remote work is available from anywhere in Europe where the contract permits; France-based employees may work fully remotely or from the Paris office.

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Product Management
Risk Management
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • Significant hybrid experience in strategy and product management on products with strong business stakes.
  • Proven product-management experience with coaching, upskilling, and team structuring.
  • A very strong data-driven mindset involving metrics, instrumentation, experimentation, and penetration optimization.
  • Ability to co-build an acquisition and penetration strategy with cross-functional impact.
  • Ability to manage strategic partnerships and identify build-or-buy opportunities.
  • Ability to operate on infrastructure and operational topics, including reliability, run, incidents, and partner dependencies.
  • Excellent cross-functional alignment skills across Technology, Data, Marketing, Operations, Compliance, and Risk.
  • Pragmatic, results-oriented leadership with a strong business focus.
  • Full fluency or bilingual French-speaking ability.
  • Proven experience owning a multi-squad product scope, such as Group Product Manager, Head of Product, or equivalent, with measurable business outcomes.
  • Strong data-driven growth mindset, including running experiments, instrumenting products, and making decisions based on measurable signals.
  • Track record of coaching and growing Product Managers through direct feedback and appropriate delegation.
  • Excellent cross-functional leadership across Engineering, Data, Marketing, Compliance, and Risk.
  • A hybrid business and product profile, including fluency in revenue, penetration, average revenue per user, discovery, and roadmaps.
  • Ability to operate in a fast-scaling, high-ambiguity environment.
Responsibilities
  • Own the product vision and execution strategy for the Monetisation group, including cross-squad prioritization, trade-offs, dependencies, sequencing, and capacity.
  • Co-build an acquisition and go-to-market strategy with Strategy and Operations and Marketing teams, particularly for payment acceptance.
  • Manage, coach, and develop three Product Managers by structuring rituals, raising standards, and improving product decision quality.
  • Collaborate with Data on scoring and impact measurement for adoption, activation, revenue, and risk, and anticipate data staffing needs.
  • Build an effective relationship between Product and Operations, Risk, and Compliance regarding regulatory challenges.
  • Manage relationships with strategic partners Defacto for credit and Adyen for payment terminals.
  • Accelerate adoption and penetration of payment acceptance products, including Cash-in and payment terminals, to maximize revenue and usage.
  • Build the short-term credit offering, including scoping, discovery, launch, iteration, and scale-up.
  • Support construction of the credit stack needed to operate licenses under application.
  • Drive revenue through feature activation and penetration, with the objective of making financial services a major monetization lever.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in fintech, payments, lending, or transactional platforms.
  • Familiarity with payment ecosystems, including payment service providers, acquiring, and terminals such as Adyen.
  • Experience with credit products, scoring models, or regulated financial products.
  • Business-to-business software-as-a-service experience with complex workflows and multiple user personas.

Pennylane is a financial and accounting platform for SMBs and their accountants that centralizes all financial data in real time. It lets managers manage invoicing, payments, cash flow, and reporting while giving accountants a single production tool. The service is subscription-based and designed to be used by both the company and its external accountant, with real-time visibility and a single source of truth. It targets France and Europe, offering features like sales/purchase management, cash flow forecasting, dashboards, and is a certified Partner Dematerialization Platform (PDP) for upcoming e-invoicing rules.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series E

Total Funding

$443.9M

Headquarters

Paris, France

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • Pennylane’s $200M 2025 raise accelerates AI development and European expansion to reach €100M ARR and profitability by year-end.
  • AI-driven automation for bookkeeping and real-time insights positions Pennylane to lead Europe’s AI accounting race serving 800K companies.
  • Mandatory e-invoicing reform in France by 2026 drives massive SMB adoption as Pennylane enables seamless B2B transactions via PDP certification.

What critics are saying

  • Qonto’s 2026 PDP gateway directly displaces Pennylane’s e-invoicing advantage, forcing SMBs to switch tools for compliance within 6–12 months.
  • Cegid’s acquisition of Shine creates a unified AI co-pilot replicating Pennylane’s dual-accountant-client model, undercutting its core value proposition in 12–18 months.
  • Major French accounting networks like FIDAC may shift to Cegid or Xero post-2026 e-invoicing reform, severing Pennylane’s primary 90% customer acquisition channel.

What makes Pennylane unique

  • Pennylane’s accountant-first model with AI copilot for complex edge cases fosters deep European accounting firm partnerships.
  • Pennylane is the only certified PDP Partner in France, ensuring compliance with mandatory e-invoicing reform by September 2026.
  • Pennylane’s unified all-in-one platform eliminates data exchange between SMEs and accountants, unlike Xero or QuickBooks.

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Benefits

Remote Work Options

Company Equity

Home Office Stipend

Wellness Program

Paid Vacation

Health Insurance

Lunch Credits

Flexible Work Hours

Gym Membership

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Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

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Tech.eu
Jan 20th, 2026
French accounting software platform Pennylane raises $200M

The funding round values Pennylane at $4.25bn, according to a report.

Tech Funding News
Jan 20th, 2026
French unicorn Pennylane raises $200M to lead Europe's AI accounting race

Pennylane, a French accounting software startup, has raised $200 million in a funding round led by TCV, with participation from Blackstone Growth and existing investors Sequoia, DST, CapitalG and Meritech. Founded in 2020 by Arthur Waller, Pennylane offers an all-in-one platform combining accounting production, financial management and payments, designed for seamless collaboration between accountants and their clients. The company differentiates itself from competitors like Xero and QuickBooks through its European regulatory focus and partnership approach with accounting firms. The platform features AI-driven automation, real-time financial insights and integrated payment tools. Pennylane now supports 6,000 accounting firms and 800,000 companies, employing 1,000 people. The funding will accelerate AI development and European expansion as the company approaches profitability.

Tech Funding News
Nov 26th, 2025
French unicorn Pennylane nears $200M raise at $4.25B valuation to reshape SME accounting — TFN

French company Pennylane is negotiating a fresh investment of around $200 million at a $4.25 billion valuation.

The French Tech Journal
Apr 18th, 2025
Pennylane Raises €75M, Eyes France Growth

Pennylane, a French fintech, has secured a €75 million funding round, doubling its valuation to €2 billion. The company plans to leverage new invoicing regulations and AI to expand, focusing on France before targeting continental Europe. With 4,500 accounting firms and 350,000 SMEs as clients, Pennylane aims to capitalize on France's mandatory e-invoicing reform by 2026. CEO Arthur Waller projects $100 million ARR this year, emphasizing AI's role in enhancing accountant services.

Maddyness
Apr 11th, 2025
Pennylane raises €75M for financial AI

French startups raised €163 million this week, with AI-focused companies securing €119 million. Notable funding includes Pennylane, which raised €75 million, Roof with €20 million, and Qevlar AI with €9.3 million. Other startups like PyannoteAI, Parallel, Ed AI, and Feedae also contributed to the total.