Staff Product Manager, Corporate Spend

Coast is building the smart financial infrastructure powering Americas fleets. AI is fundamentally changing how fleets run their financial operations and were shaping the tools this new era requires.

Founded in 2020 Coast has become the payments and expense management platform of choice for the 500000 fleets and 40 million vehicles that keep the country moving by giving fleet owners and operators control visibility and trust over how their businesses spend.

In an industry where complexity is the norm were building something simple yet opinionated and focused: software that field owners managers and workers actually want to use. Every member of our fully co-located team is a builder who demonstrates high agency ownership and urgency every day. We also care deeply about bringing modern well-crafted tools to the trades; an industry thats been underserved for too long. This mindset drives everything we do from product decisions to hiring choices.

As a Staff Product Manager for Corporate Spend youll own the the vision strategy and roadmap for Coasts next generation of AI-powered expense management products. Your job is to turn fleets that already trust Coast for fuel their fuel spend into customers who run all of their company spend through us by figuring out whats stopping them and building what gets them there. Youll partner closely with engineering design data and cross-functional stakeholders (Risk Legal Customer Success Sales) to build intelligent experiences that help customers save money reduce risk and eliminate manual work. Youll own problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. This role blends AI-native product development (LLM-powered workflows evaluation systems human-in-the-loop design) and deep product sense.

Coast is an in-person company. This role is based out of our New York City office and requires in-person presence 3 to 4 days a week. We believe great products are built by people who are in the room together: collaborating closely moving fast and holding each other to a high bar.

• Perform up-front discovery through user interviews competitive research data analysis etc. and present findings to the corporate spend team with conviction and rigor
• Marry customer insights with technical possibilities crafting intuitive user experiences that abstract away complexity
• Drive high-velocity execution with a world-class team of engineers and designers balancing principled intuition with data-driven decision making
• Prototype rapidly using tools like Claude or ChatGPT to accelerate the product development lifecycle and fast-forward to production-ready products
• Improve our AI-driven product development process
• Craft messaging around upcoming features that resonates with users
• Enable sales and marketing teams to effectively communicate with and win with customers
• Stay deeply plugged into AI research industry trends and emergent applications filtering signal from noise and applying it creatively to Coasts product

• BA/BS in a technical or analytical field (e.g. Computer Science Engineering Mathematics Physics Applied Sciences)
• Minimum 6 years of product management or adjacent product-building experience
• Strong product judgment and first-principles thinking across complex workflows data products integrations and user experiences
• World-class design & product taste
• AI fluency and passion demonstrated through hands-on experience building AI features prototypes or side projects plus an understanding of evaluation retrieval latency cost safety and accuracy tradeoffs
• Comfort collaborating in technical environments (Figma Git) and using modern prototyping tools (e.g. Claude Code Cursor)
• Fluency with experimentation and product metrics plus strong instincts for when qualitative customer discovery is required
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams with urgency and ownership set direction make tradeoffs and deliver measurable outcomes
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills with the ability to translate between subject matter experts technical teams and non-technical stakeholders
• Shameless curiosity a propensity to question things deeply
• Extreme speed and clarity

Youll have a high-impact role with real ownership and the opportunity to shape the future of Coasts products and services.

• Competitive salary ($205000$230000 USD) and equity
• Company-sponsored 401(k)
• Medical dental and vision insurance
• Flexible paid time off (vacation personal well being paid holidays)
• Paid parental leave
• $400 accessories allowance (a keyboard mouse headphones etc.)
• Education stipend
• Tools to help manage your financial wellness including webinar and access to an equity tax advisory service
• Free lunch on Fridays

- Fleet payments and embedded fintech done right( *podcast with our founder and CEO Daniel Simon*
- Fueling the Financial Operating System for Fleets: Our Partnership with Coast( *ICONIQ Series B blog post*