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Senior Product Manager Approvals & Automations
Zendesk builds AI powered, customizable and simple to use service software crafted to improve customer relationships. Many of the world’s favorite brands leverage our products to engage you as a customer. We lead the industry with beautifully simple software, and you’ve almost certainly interacted with it without knowing it!
We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the following product area
As a Senior Product Manager for Approvals & Integrations you’ll…
Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.
The Intelligent Heart Of Customer Experience
Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.
Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.
As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency, we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position, in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.
Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.
Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to peopleandplaces@zendesk.com with your specific accommodation request.
Senior Product Manager Approvals & Automations
Zendesk builds AI powered, customizable and simple to use service software crafted to improve customer relationships. Many of the world’s favorite brands leverage our products to engage you as a customer. We lead the industry with beautifully simple software, and you’ve almost certainly interacted with it without knowing it!
We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the following product area
- An approvals workflow engine that can enable mult-step approval processes, improve productivity for our customers and can fast track our investments in Employee Services.
- Integration of Approvals steps and actions with the AI Agents integration platform and with the Zendesk MCP server for external Agentic AI to action upon approvals
As a Senior Product Manager for Approvals & Integrations you’ll…
- Be a subject matter expert in this product area, and work with customers both internal and external to understand their needs
- Be a strategic leader for this area, setting and articulating a vision and roadmap
- Drive the execution of new capabilities and enhancements with your own engineering teams as well as work cross-functionally with other product areas including, Integration partners and Go-To-Market teams (i.e. sales & customer success) to support their initiatives.
- Advocate for a user-centric approach in product development. Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create intuitive and engaging user interfaces that enhance the overall user experience.
- Define OKRs, success metrics and review performance against those.
- Be responsible for scaling these services to manage thousands of rule executions with minimum impact on the Zendesk infrastructure.
- Bachelor’s Degree, with 5 years of Product Management experience under your belt, delivering products that met business goals.
- Your work experience will include customer-focused SaaS, designing and shipping “full-stack” from front-end, to back-end, and APIs.
- A great collaborator that knows that to deliver anything of value is a team effort and likes to dig in with intelligent and passionate engineers to find the best solution to a problem.
- Ability to understand complex systems, and balance appropriate tradeoffs between performance, cost, and user experience.
- A self-starter with a bias for action who is motivated to solve problems and deliver results with an owner mentality.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for varying audiences: customers, engineering, marketing, program management, and executives.
- The drive to deeply understand our product, the market, our customers, and when to use the right data to measure success, using analytics tools to aid in decision-making.
- Past experience building an enterprise product based on BPMN standards
Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.
The Intelligent Heart Of Customer Experience
Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.
Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.
As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency, we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position, in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.
Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.
Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to peopleandplaces@zendesk.com with your specific accommodation request.
Salary : $182,000 - $274,000