Senior AI Product Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior AI Product Manager based in Canada.

We are seeking an experienced, AI-enabled Product Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of custom data and AI platforms for institutional real estate owners, operators, and fund managers. You will manage fixed-fee, milestone-based projects, taking ownership of delivery plans, scope, stakeholder alignment, and client outcomes. The role focuses on connecting fragmented real estate systems into trusted data foundations and building AI-powered capabilities for portfolio analysis, reporting, and operational decision-making.

You will work closely with engineering, data, architecture, and client leadership teams to turn complex business needs into practical, scalable solutions. You will also guide platform transitions, including data migration, training, and handover. This is an opportunity to combine product leadership, real estate expertise, and applied AI in a high-performance, remote environment.

• Lead the full product development lifecycle, from discovery workshops and data mapping through platform development, reporting views, user training, and final handover.

• Own delivery plans, milestones, acceptance gates, project scope, and client commitments across fixed-fee engagements with defined deadlines.

• Establish gate criteria, supporting evidence, and acceptance requirements with clients before project sign-off; manage scope changes and clearly identify work for future delivery cycles.

• Define value baselines with client finance teams and track measurable outcomes throughout each engagement.

• Prioritize reliable data foundations by coordinating source mapping, data quality rules, exception routing, data lineage, and locked data snapshots before reporting views are developed.

• Facilitate workshops with asset management, finance, investor relations, deal teams, and technology stakeholders to define reporting needs, KPIs, view specifications, and acceptance criteria.

• Partner with engineering and data science teams to identify appropriate AI use cases, including agent-based data mapping, document extraction, retrieval with cited sources, and automated commentary drafting.

• Ensure financial reporting remains based on fixed, auditable calculations approved by the client.

• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for executive sponsors, business owners, and technology leads, communicating progress clearly and escalating risks early.

• Lead incumbent platform retirement activities, including historical data migration, parallel runs, sign-off, and transition planning.

• Coordinate role-based user training and ensure complete documentation and operational knowledge transfer to the client's platform owner.

• At least 5 years of product management experience, with hands-on ownership of every phase of the product development lifecycle and a track record of delivering custom software for external clients.

• At least 2 years of experience within or directly serving the institutional real estate sector, such as an owner-operator, REIT, private equity real estate firm, fund manager, or real estate technology or data vendor.

• Strong understanding of real estate financial and operational concepts, including rent rolls, operating statements, budgets versus actuals, T-12 statements, loan abstracts, JV waterfall summaries, WALT, DSCR, NOI, and equity funded versus committed.

• Hands-on experience with property accounting systems such as Yardi, MRI, or Real Page, plus at least one platform such as Juniper Square, Altrio, VTS, ARGUS, or Pereview.

• Experience delivering data platform products, such as data warehouses, data lakes, reporting, or…