The Product Manager will drive product direction, collaborate with teams, engage with customers, and leverage AI tools to enhance governance operations.
About Athennian
Athennian powers Governance Ops for organizations managing complex corporate structures by centralizing entity, ownership, and governance data for legal, finance, and tax teams. More than 1 million entities across 150+ countries are managed on Athennian today, and we work with corporate groups, private equity firms, real estate investors, and professional services organizations to automate governance, compliance, and ownership workflows. We are a fast-moving, product-driven company that works closely with customers and partners to solve complex operational challenges and modernize governance operations through an AI-forward approach.
Role Overview
As a Product Manager at Athennian, you help shape how modern governance operations are built for some of the world’s most complex organizations. Working closely with engineering, design, and customers, you identify meaningful problems and turn them into products that bring clarity and efficiency to corporate structures.
This role is suited for someone motivated to build impactful software alongside talented teams. It requires strong product judgment, curiosity, and the ability to move quickly while making thoughtful decisions that advance the platform. You bring a collaborative mindset, learn from those around you, step in to guide when needed, and build strong partnerships across teams to deliver meaningful outcomes for our customers
Key Responsibilities
- Talk to customers often. Develop a deep understanding of how legal, finance, and governance teams operate and where their workflows break down.
- Set product direction and roadmap priorities, balancing customer needs, company goals, and technical feasibility.
- Partner closely with Engineering and Design to turn complex problems into thoughtful, well-built product solutions.
- Make clear product decisions using customer insight, market context, and commercial inputs such as pricing, packaging, and segmentation.
- Work with Sales, Support, and Implementation to ensure product launches are well understood and successful for customers.
- Define product requirements and user stories that help engineering teams build efficiently while maintaining a high bar for quality.
- Stay informed on industry trends, regulatory changes, and how governance operations are evolving.
- Use AI tools in day-to-day product work to prototype ideas, accelerate discovery, and explore new ways to solve customer problems.
- Identify opportunities where emerging technologies, including AI, can meaningfully improve customer workflows.
Required Experience:
- 3+ years of product management experience building B2B SaaS products.
- A track record of owning product areas from discovery through launch and iteration.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to make thoughtful trade-offs in fast-moving environments.
- Experience working closely with engineering and design to deliver high-quality products.
- Comfortable leading customer discovery and translating insights into product decisions.
- Familiarity with AI tools and curiosity about how emerging technologies can improve products and workflows.
- Clear communication and the ability to align teams around product direction and outcomes.
- Previous experience in a startup/scale up environment
Nice to Have Skills:
- Experience working in Legal-tech, Fintech, or other complex enterprise software environments.
Location
We have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the world. While some roles may require proximity to our Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver offices, roles based outside our office locations can be remote in Canada and the US. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in the US and Canada. #LI-Remote
Our Culture
Our company thrives in a fast-paced startup environment where every team member plays a critical role in driving success.
Outcome Driven: We focus on setting ambitious goals and achieving measurable results.
Wide Responsibility: Our team is empowered to take ownership from problem identification to implementation.
Learning Mindset: We embrace curiosity and reject the status quo.
Strategic Speed: We make fast, effective decisions and embrace a bias for action.
Benefits at Athennian
We’re a remote-first company built on trust, autonomy, and accountability.
Work-Life Balance: Minimum of 3 weeks vacation, 5 sick days, and 6 personal/flex days, plus a company-wide winter holiday shutdown.
Comprehensive Coverage: Health, dental, and vision, long-term disability, and a Health Spending Account (HSA).
Family Support: Flexible parental leave benefits, including top-ups.
Remote Setup: A dedicated work-from-home allowance to get you set up for success.
Top Skills
AI
SaaS
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