About this role
• The Senior Product Programs Manager plays a critical role in driving strategic product and partner initiatives that accelerate customer adoption, engagement, and business growth across Emburse’s platform and product-led partner ecosystem
• This role is responsible for designing, scaling, and executing cross-functional programs that improve product utilization, customer education, partner enablement, and go-to-market effectiveness
• The ideal candidate brings a blend of strategic thinking, operational rigor, customer-centricity, and technical acumen to deliver high-impact initiatives across Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, Partnerships, and external stakeholders
• This individual thrives in ambiguity, simplifies complex problems into scalable solutions, influences without authority, and operates effectively across executive and operational levels
• Success in this role requires strong program management capabilities, excellent communication skills, and the ability to drive measurable outcomes through collaboration and innovation
• Strategic Program Leadership
• Lead the strategy, development, execution, and optimization of scalable product-led partnership programs. These could include referral, co-branded, or white-labeled deployment models
• Drive cross-functional initiatives spanning Product, Partnerships, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, Enablement, and Operations
• Build and operationalize frameworks, processes, and best practices that improve product-led program scalability, adoption, and execution efficiency
• Define and track product-led program OKRs, KPIs, and success metrics, providing regular reporting and actionable insights to leadership
• Partner & Go-to-Market Enablement
• Manage engagement with strategic partners and internal GTM teams through enablement sessions, demo presentations, campaigns, and collaborative initiatives
• Collaborate cross-functionally to distill complex product capabilities into clear sales, marketing, and enablement messaging
• Serve as a liaison between Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and external stakeholders to ensure successful product-led program execution and communication
• Attend partner events, SKOs, webinars, and strategic meetings as needed to support program adoption and alignment
• Product Adoption & Customer Engagement
• Develop and deliver customer engagement and education programs designed to accelerate onboarding, adoption, retention, and expansion leveraging:
• In-application experiences
• Webinars and virtual events
• Email and nurture campaigns
• Partner-led campaigns
• Partner with Product and Customer Success teams to identify opportunities to improve customer journeys and product utilization
• Support programs focused on increasing virtual card adoption, premium feature utilization, and self-service customer success outcomes
• Primary Metrics of Success:
• Growth in strategic product-led partner engagement and enablement effectiveness
• Increased product adoption and utilization across partner-driven customer segments
• Successful launch and execution of co-branded or white-labeled initiatives
• Customer education program participation and engagement
• Improvement in customer lifecycle outcomes, including activation, retention, and expansion
• Achievement of quarterly and annual program OKRs
• Stakeholder satisfaction and cross-functional execution effectiveness
Benefits
• Flexible spending accounts
• Generous paid time off for every employee and flexible work schedules
• Paid leave for new parents
• Volunteering opportunities
• Health savings accounts (HSA)
• Medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
• Generous match to pre- or post-tax retirement savings accounts
• Financial planning services
• Program in partnership with eCornell to grow their knowledge and their careers
• Delicious supply of snacks and beverages
• Quarterly outings and Friday get-togethers to build a strong community at work