Glenn Metz

Hello!I'm Glenn

I'm a product manager at Tropic.

About Me

I believe the best products come from disciplined teams with strong taste and a deep understanding of the problem. Outside of work, I'm a proud dad and husband, a slow runner, a mediocre golfer. I'm a builder at heart whether it's shipping software, constructing legos with my kids or laying pavers in the backyard.

Strategic Craftsmen

I blend high-level thinking with an obsession for the craft. I don't just want a feature to work—I want it to feel right, exceed expectations, and earn adoption.

Relentless Pursuer of Clarity

I'm not afraid to ask hard questions—or ask them more than once. I'll dig through data, talk to users, and study the domain until I see the problem clearly.

Disciplined Execution

I focus on fundamentals—clear decisions, crisp communication, and strong team habits. That's how we build better products faster.

Experience

My professional journey in product management and leadership.

Director of Product

Dec 2025 - Present

Oversaw strategy, roadmap, execution and go-to-market across 4 product teams, expanding Tropic's AI-powered spend intelligence strategy into a comprehensive intake-to-pay lifecycle management platform.

Group Product Manager

Dec 2023 - Dec 2025

Defined and executed vision for centralized intelligence center delivering insights and 360-degree vendor analysis tailored for IT, Finance, and Accounting personas by aggregating financials data from direct ERP integrations (NetSuite, QBO, Sage), and usage data from IDPs (Okta, Google SSO), and contract details from Tropic's contract management features.

Senior Product Manager

Apr 2022 - Dec 2023

Led the 0-1 development of Tropic's Supplier Intelligence feature set, pioneering the concept and guiding a talented team through the 0-1 phase, transforming a nascent idea into a fully-functional and innovative feature set.

Product Manager

Feb 2018 - Apr 2022

Lead 10+ person team of engineers and designers to build a MVP universal wallet application between the premium payment and claim payment platforms, enabling users to access their saved payment methods from any One Inc application.

Portfolio

A collection of my favorite product initiatives I've led throughout my career

Tropic

AI Invoice Match

Agent that surfaces invoice fraud and discrepancies

Challenge

Accounting teams spend a significant amount of time verifying or managing the verification of invoices. With the advent of LLMs invoice fraud is harder than ever to detect.

Solution

leveraged AI agents to receive invoices, extract metadata, match to associated vendors, requests, POs, and contracts, and surface discrepancies

Impact

AI Invoice Match leads to a reduction in AP invoice review time from hours to minutes.

"AI Invoice Match just caught an erroneous invoice that helped prevent an extra 30k go out the door :)"

— Tropic Customer

AI Invoice Match interface showing matched invoice details with Tropic records
Tropic

Ask Tropic

AI procurement expert available 24/7

Challenge

Procurement and finance data can be hard to access when it's spread across multiple locations throughout the platform

Solution

Ask Tropic is an AI Assistant that can be accessed from anywhere in the platform so users can get answers immmediately without interupting their flow

Impact

Tropic customers save hours with Ask Tropic by reducing manual procurment tasks by up to 50%, improve negotiation saving by up to 20% and maintain tighter procurement controls.

Ask Tropic AI interface showing the AI assistant and dashboard
Tropic

AI Data Mapping

AI tool that automatically maps integrated data into centralized source

Challenge

Mapping data from multiple integrations was a tedious process that required users to manually map vendors and products to their corresponding entities in Tropic. This cumbersome task led to poor adoption and incomplete data mapping, which ultimately resulted in incomplete spend and IT reporting.

Solution

Implemented an AI tool that acts as a middle layer agent between various integrations. When new data is received, it performs RAG operations to gather additional context and automatically maps it to existing vendors or entities in Tropic.

Impact

Increased the averaged mappped vendor rates from 40% to 80%, dramatically reducing manual work and ensuring more complete data integration across all connected sources.

AI Data Mapping interface showing automatic supplier matching from NetSuite to Tropic

What People Say

Feedback from colleagues and partners I've had the pleasure of working with.

"Glenn is one of the best product leaders that I've had the pleasure of working with. He takes complete ownership over the domain that he's responsible for and goes above and beyond at becoming a knowledge leader in that area. He invests the time to understand the space that he's working in and the customers he's serving so that he can guide the product in the right direction."

Luke Scoates

Principal Engineer, Tropic

"Glenn is one of the most sharp and grounded product leaders I've had the pleasure of working with at Tropic. At Tropic, Glenn led product work across many AI initiatives — from internal tooling to customer-facing experiences. He worked hand-in-hand with eng, design, and GTM to ship thoughtful solutions that made a real impact and somehow made it look easy. He brings a great mix of technical curiosity, strategic thinking, and calm, steady leadership. Glenn's especially good at cutting through the noise and getting teams aligned around the right problems. Plus, at heart, he's a designer's best friend — always down to jam on ideas, pixels, or hairy technical issues."

Karina Tovar

Lead Designer, Tropic

Get in Touch

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