AI Product Manager

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!

At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!

BlackLine's New York AI Innovation Hub operates as an agile, AI-first startup with the backing, scale, and customer reach of BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) ,the future-ready platform for the Office of the CFO. Building directly with BlackLine's enterprise customer base, we ship AI-native capabilities at startup speed, equipping our teams with best-in-class tools like Claude Code to move from idea to production fast.

Our mission is to transform finance and accounting with trusted, auditable AI agentic products like Verity Accruals that take on complex, manual work and deliver real business value for the world's leading finance teams. We're defining what agentic finance best in class means, building and leading the category, at the speed and ownership of a startup, paired with the data, governance, and two decades of trust only BlackLine brings to the Office of the CFO.

We are looking for an AI Product Manager to work shoulder to shoulder with our best-in-class AI hub engineering team and our most future-facing clients to build the next generation of AI agents for the accounting close. You'll blend accounting expertise with a passion for technology, Success is measured by driving product adoption through thoughtful, accurate product delivery and responding directly to each customers' needs while simultaneously providing education and enablement.

Why This Is a Unique Opportunity:

This is a dynamic Product Manager role, a fusion of product management, with AI Vision and Accounting acumen.

We believe the best AI products for accounting will be built by those who have lived the pain of the month-end close. We will provide the product management training; you bring the deep subject matter expertise that is critical for our success. You will not just be managing a product; you will be an integral part of an engineering and GTM team, using your accounting knowledge to build the future of the profession.

Roles and Responsibility (list in order of importance)

• Product Discovery & Client Partnership: Act as the primary product expert for our AI agents, guiding clients from initial design partnership through to successful adoption. You will embed with client accounting teams to deeply understand their workflows, gather direct feedback, and translate their needs into actionable product requirements for the engineering team

• Collaboration: Partner directly with engineering, but also with design, marketing, and sales teams, to ensure seamless product iteration and market fit based on client feedback

• Compliance: Monitor the performance of, and ensure that the quality of product outputs adhere to accounting standards by executing and improving on QA testing processes

• Process Architecture: Maintain rigorous documentation of standard operating procedures, performance analytics, and quality assurance frameworks to ensure consistent execution and knowledge transfer across all involved teams

• Years of Experience in Related Field: Experience: 3+ years in corporate accounting executing across month-end close tasks (like booking accruals, amortizing prepaid schedules, reconciling cash ledgers, etc.)

  Education: Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance, or a related field (CPA or CMA preferred)

  Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • Technical skills: Deep familiarity across ERP platforms like SAP, NetSuite, or Sage Intacct. Deep familiarity with the month end close process for a corporate accounting team
  • Project management: Clear, concise communicator with strong organizational hygiene to structure and manage multiple concurrent deliverables
  • Communication: Ability to translate technical accounting concepts to non-accounting stakeholders
  • Adaptability: Thrive in a fast-paced, in-person-first environment

• 1-2 years of product management experience with 2-4 years enterprise software involvement
• Bachelor's degree in accounting/business or related technical fields, or equivalent work experience with enterprise Office of Finance applications or accounting firms
• Proficient with Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
• Strong familiarity with enterprise Cloud applications and related technical infrastructure (distributed systems, APIs, licensing models, accessibility, data import/export)
• Excellent organizational, written, and verbal communication skills
• Ability to gather and transform business requirements and market needs into successful product strategy inputs (Design Thinking experience a plus)
• Develop roadmap priorities, create user stories, and maintain/refine the product backlog
• Work closely with both business and technical resources
• Collaborate across multiple internal stakeholder teams (CloudOps, InfoSec, AppSec) to gather and rank competing priorities
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously in a dynamic, high-growth environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Familiarity with agile enablement applications (Jira and Productboard preferred)
• 10-20% travel to customers and company/industry events as required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Work is primarily sedentary in nature; no special demands required.

• Education: Master's degree preferred.
• Statistical analysis is a plus
• Experience scaling research processes and operations within an organization is a plus
• Enterprise SaaS experience
• Experience with FinTech products/Finance Operations Management suite

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws

BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.

Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.

BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.

BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.