Full-Time

Senior Product Manager

SaaS, AI

Posted on 12/23/2025

AppDirect

AppDirect

1,001-5,000 employees

Subscription commerce platform for digital services

No salary listed

Montreal, QC, Canada

Remote

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Microsoft Azure
Python
R
Product Management
SQL
Machine Learning
ETL
Tableau
AWS
Looker
Data Analysis
Reinforcement Learning
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • 5+ years as a Product Manager focused on data, analytics, or AI products within a B2B SaaS environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a closely related field; advanced degree a plus.
  • Proven track record of shipping data-driven and AI-powered products that solve real customer problems and drive measurable adoption.
  • Experience across the AI/ML lifecycle—from data acquisition and model training to deployment and monitoring.
  • Strong understanding of data fundamentals, including data modeling, data integration, ETL pipelines, and analytics.
  • Familiarity working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, particularly in the context of enterprise SaaS or cloud marketplaces
  • Experience with data analysis and data-driven decision-making, including identifying data requirements for AI solutions and ensuring responsible, ethical data use.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python/R for exploring large datasets, building dashboards (Looker, Tableau), and conducting A/B experiments.
  • Strong user empathy and the ability to tell an exceptional story through design choices and data narratives.
  • Excellent verbal and written skills, with the ability to translate complex AI concepts into clear business value for stakeholders at all levels.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams (engineering, data science, UX, go-to-market) and translate technical requirements into user-friendly solutions.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the lifecycle of data and AI products from conception through launch and iteration. Develop and maintain a clear product roadmap to expand our AI product offerings and integrate advanced data solutions into our portfolio.
  • Leverage your understanding of data fundamentals to make sense of large and complex datasets. Utilize data-driven insights to inform product decisions, prioritize features, and measure product success.
  • Translate cutting-edge AI research (e.g., LLMs, transformers, reinforcement learning) into real, scalable SaaS features. Partner with your team to turn prototypes into production-ready capabilities.
  • Work closely with engineering teams to understand technical requirements and challenges. Translate detailed AI/ML concepts into actionable product specifications and ensure successful implementation.
  • Effectively communicate product vision, strategy, and progress to non-technical stakeholders, including executives and customers. Gather and prioritize feedback to align product development with market needs.
  • Engage with customers to understand their needs, gather feedback, and ensure our data and AI products meet or exceed their expectations. Develop strategies to enhance customer satisfaction and product adoption.
  • Rapidly prototype ideas and workflows to validate concepts before committing to detailed epics or specs. You’ll leverage low-code and collaborative tools to build mock-ups, proofs-of-concept, and interactive demos.
Desired Qualifications
  • Proven track record of successfully taking an AI/ML model from initial prototype (PoC) to a production-ready, highly-adopted, and scaled commercial feature
  • Proven experience in monetizing data or packaging intelligence into premium product tiers, leading to measurable revenue growth
  • Practical experience building quick mock-ups or automations in tools like Replit, Lovable.dev, Windsurf or similar low-code/no-code platforms.
  • Experience working with large language models (e.g., OpenAI GPT, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Grok, Gemini, etc)
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering, large language model tuning, AI ethics frameworks, and bias mitigation techniques
  • Familiarity with machine learning frameworks and tools, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, or Keras.
  • Familiarity with MLOps platforms: AWS Bedrock, MLflow, Databricks, Google Cloud Vertex AI, AWS SageMaker, or equivalent for model training, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Cloud or AI/ML certification (e.g., AWS ML Specialty, Google ML Engineer)

AppDirect provides a subscription commerce platform that helps businesses offer, manage, and monetize digital services such as SaaS, IoT, cloud services, and VR/AR apps. The platform handles end-to-end subscription management, including billing, reseller management, and sales automation. It differentiates itself by offering an integrated suite of billing, partner management, and sales tools within one platform and by connecting with a broad ecosystem of service providers. Its goal is to simplify the delivery and monetization of digital services, accelerate time to market, and help companies build cohesive digital ecosystems.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$750.8M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2009

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Cloud marketplace revenue surges 60% to 32% of B2B software next year.
  • 60% of marketplace purchases via channel partners by 2030 boosts ecosystems.
  • PartnerStack generated $3B customer revenue and enhances AI search visibility.

What critics are saying

  • Six acquisitions overload engineering, causing outages and trust erosion in 6-12 months.
  • Stripe Billing embeds hyperscaler integrations, bypassing AppDirect in 12-24 months.
  • Chargebee lures SME customers with superior billing in 12-18 months.

What makes AppDirect unique

  • AppDirect unifies subscription commerce with PartnerStack's 138,000+ B2B partner network.
  • Tackle.io acquisition enables management of $20B cloud hyperscaler marketplace transactions.
  • Acquired NXTSYS expands MSP-focused technology distribution and advisor ecosystem.

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-1%

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AppDirect, a B2B commerce platform, has appointed channel veteran Mariane Louvet as Director of Provider Management. She will lead strategy for the company's provider ecosystem as it expands cloud provider distribution across North America. Louvet brings two decades of channel experience, including roles at Symantec, Forcepoint, Pax8 and 1Password. She has been recognised as a 2024 CRN Channel Chief and CRN Women of the Channel in 2022 and 2024. The appointment follows AppDirect's recent acquisition of Tackle.io as part of its marketplace expansion strategy. Louvet will focus on attracting and managing providers, developing scalable programmes and strengthening commercial alignment across AppDirect's network of marketplaces and hyperscaler platforms.

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AppDirect doubles down on provider success, marketplace expansion, and "B2B everything store" Vision with strategic leadership hire.

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Channel Impact
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AppDirect acquires Tackle.io to create unified B2B subscription commerce platform across cloud marketplaces

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