General Manager

About

La mission de Pennylane est de permettre aux dirigeants de prendre les bonnes décisions financièrement et aux experts-comptables de jouer pleinement leur rôle de conseil.

Grâce à Pennylane, les dirigeants prennent de meilleures décisions et simplifient leur gestion financière. Sans quitter la plateforme, ils accèdent à toutes leurs données, fiables, à jour et actionnables, règlent leurs achats et gèrent leur facturation.

Et les experts-comptables se consacrent à leur rôle de conseil en gagnant du temps sur la saisie et récupération des justificatifs grâce aux nombreuses automatisations de Pennylane.

Depuis son lancement en 2020, l'équipe de Pennylane a déjà réalisé de grandes choses : 🚀💚.

  • 200 000 clients PME.

  • 150 millions d'euros levés à ce jour grâce aux investisseurs Partech et Sequoia.

  • 3 500 cabinets comptables français utilisent Pennylane chaque jour.

  • Reconnue comme l'une des startups les plus attractives de Paris en 2021 The Wired.

Et plus de 500 Pennylaners de 25 pays différents qui construisent la meilleure plateforme pour les PME européennes.

Nos valeurs :

  • Supporting Smes: Nous résolvons les problèmes de vraies personnes et restons toujours connectés aux besoins de nos utilisateurs

  • Community of Builders : Nous sommes fiers d'être une équipe de praticiens et de faiseurs car c’est la source d’un plus grand impact.

  • Radical trust : Chez Pennylane la confiance ne se mérite pas, elle se donne.

Job Description

Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France ?

Are you looking for a work environment that values trust, proactivity, and autonomy?

Are our Product Principles aligned with your vision?

Then Pennylane is the right place for you !

Our vision

We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of French SMEs (and soon, European ones).

We help entrepreneurs rid themselves of time-consuming tasks related to accounting and finance while providing them with access to key financial information to assist in making the best decisions for their business.

Simultaneously, we support accounting firms by enabling them to spend less time on redundant and repetitive tasks and more time on advising and supporting their clients. Already, over 200,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and more than 3,500 accounting firms use Pennylane in France! 🚀

About us

Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)

In 4 years of existence, we’ve managed to :

💻 Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants

💰 Raise a total of €150 millions, including from Sequoia, the famous fund from the Silicon Valley who invested early in companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Paypal and much more...

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Grow from 7 cofounders to 500+ happy Pennylaners : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (and also remotely), with a 4.6/5 rating on Glassdoor.

🌍 Build an international environment with more than 25 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture, where 30% of the employees are already working from all parts of Europe

🤝 Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain outstanding ratings

🚀 Already more than 200,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 3,500 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!

Your Mission 

Make Pennylane come out as the winner of the E-Invoicing reform in France

Define our strategy by aligning all stakeholders and making sure that strategy is well understood, communicated and cascaded down in OKRs of different departments

Execute our strategy (channel, pricing, packaging) and monitor our penetration to be able to readjust quickly

Leverage Pennylane’s infra as efficiently as possible

Your Profile 

Strong leadership

Highly motivated to take on this high-impact project with an ambitious mindset

Ability to manage pressure (short time window)

Must-Have Skills & Experiences

Generalist background : business strategy and product marketing, product sense, some exposure and understanding of customer acquisition

Strong leadership as this role will have only few direct reports but should be able to influence and leverage other departments of the org

Nice-to-Have

Product management xp

Having seen the pain 1st hand by having been an entrepreneur

Public speaker to represent PL at external events on that topic

Recruitment process

1. Interview with the TA team - 30 min

2. Interview with Tancrède (CPO) - 45 min

3. Case study - 1h25

4. Interview Fit stakeholders - 60 min

5. Interview Fit stratégique - 60 min

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Paris
  • Possible partial remote