Jason Bouros
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Toptal member since May 12, 2026
Jason is a product lead with 10+ years of product experience and 7+ years of team leadership across B2B/B2C environments. He has built and scaled products from concept to MVP and iteration, led cross-functional teams, and aligned product, data, and operations. Combining product leadership, consulting, and operational execution experience, Jason has delivered MVPs in 6 months, shipped 35 features with lean teams, and leveraged AI to reduce concept-to-prototype time to under 24 hours.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- AI Product Strategy
- Agile
- MVP Design
- Product Leadership
- Product Management
- Product Marketing
- Product Operations
- Product Strategy
Work Experience
Director, Product & Agile Delivery
Valuize
- Led a product strategy and Agile delivery across concurrent enterprise transformation engagements valued at more than $2 million.
- Directed cross-functional teams spanning product, engineering, delivery, and client stakeholders, increasing execution throughput by approximately 25-50% compared to prior delivery models.
- Implemented standardized product and Agile operating frameworks that improved predictability, delivery consistency, and stakeholder alignment across enterprise programs.
- Maintained client engagement and delivery alignment across large-scale enterprise initiatives, sustaining over 90% CSAT performance.
- Headed Agile transformation initiatives within a global enterprise technology organization with more than 10,000 employees.
- Expanded client engagements through successful transformation outcomes, extending delivery lifecycles by 6-12 months and increasing account value.
- Built scalable delivery methodologies that strengthened competitive positioning and contributed to repeat enterprise business growth.
- Coached product owners and cross-functional delivery teams to improve product management capability, execution quality, and team autonomy.
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer
ValueFlow
- Defined the product vision, ICP, positioning, and roadmap for an AI-enabled B2B SaaS platform focused on enterprise customer lifecycle management and retention optimization.
- Built and launched an MVP in approximately 6 months with a lean team and a single developer, delivering approximately 35 production-ready features from concept through beta release.
- Validated product-market demand by securing early interest and beta requests from multiple multi-billion-dollar enterprise organizations.
- Designed customer lifecycle mapping workflows that reduced manual consulting effort by approximately 25-50% through scalable productized processes.
- Led iterative product discovery and beta feedback programs that informed multiple redesign cycles and improved product-market alignment.
- Developed an AI product roadmap aligned to enterprise customer success and operational workflow use cases.
- Prototyped AI-driven product concepts using rapid development tooling, reducing time from idea to working validation prototype to under 24 hours.
- Translated complex customer operations, data, and workflow requirements into scalable product systems supporting adoption, retention, and operational efficiency.
Manager, Product & Agile Delivery
Valuize
- Established a standardized Agile operating model across clients, improved delivery consistency and scalability, and unified delivery practices and organization-wide adoption.
- Transformed fragmented delivery processes into structured frameworks. Increased operational maturity. Enabled predictable execution and measurable consistency gains.
- Designed a client health scoring system, improved visibility into project performance, supported proactive decision-making, and adopted across engagements.
- Identified gaps through internal and client discovery, implemented process improvements, increased delivery effectiveness, and improved execution quality.
- Developed product owners and cross-functional team members, strengthened product management practices and decision-making, and improved delivery consistency and team effectiveness.
Product Manager
Assent
- Led the development of internal sales enablement products supporting a rapidly scaling SaaS business exceeding $50 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR).
- Owned the roadmap prioritization and execution for internal sales tools that improved operational efficiency and supported revenue-driving teams.
- Built an AI-powered document analysis capability leveraging LLM technology to improve compliance validation accuracy and workflow efficiency.
- Positioned AI-driven capabilities within a broader product strategy, contributing to product differentiation and sales effectiveness.
- Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders across sales, operations, and product teams to align tooling investments with company growth objectives.
Project History
ValueFlow Lifecycle Mapping Platform
- 35 — Features Delivered from Concept to Beta
- 1 — MVP Launched in 6 Months
- 50% — Reduction in Lifecycle Mapping Effort
Enterprise customer lifecycle design and operational mapping were heavily dependent on manual consulting workflows, spreadsheets, workshops, and disconnected documentation. This created scalability challenges, inconsistent execution across teams, long implementation timelines, and difficulty operationalizing customer lifecycle strategies across enterprise environments.
• Led the product strategy, roadmap development, customer discovery, and execution for a B2B SaaS lifecycle mapping platform focused on standardizing and digitizing customer lifecycle operations.
• Built scalable workflow structures, facilitated iterative beta feedback loops, and developed a future AI roadmap aligned to workflow automation and lifecycle intelligence opportunities.
Created a scalable product foundation that transformed consulting-driven processes into repeatable operational workflows, accelerated customer lifecycle design, and validated enterprise market demand for the platform.
AI-powered Compliance Document Analysis Solution
- **$50+ Million ** — in ARR
Manual review and validation of compliance documentation created operational bottlenecks, inconsistent analysis quality, and limited scalability as document volumes increased. Existing workflows required significant manual effort, slowing operational processes and reducing the efficiency of compliance validation activities.
The development of an AI-powered document analysis capability leveraging large language model technology to automate document classification and compliance validation workflows. I worked closely with internal stakeholders to align functionality with operational requirements and position AI capabilities within the broader product strategy.
Reduced manual compliance review effort, improved workflow scalability, and introduced early AI-powered automation capabilities that strengthened operational efficiency and product differentiation.
Enterprise Compliance Platform Demo Transformation
- **$50+ Million ** — in ARR
- 90% — Reduction in Demo Failures
The sales team could not reliably demo the enterprise compliance platform due to unstable environments, dirty and disparate data, frequent crashes, and workflows that did not reflect real customer use cases. This reduced stakeholder trust, created inconsistent sales experiences, and limited the organization’s ability to demonstrate complex enterprise workflows during high-value opportunities.
• Led stakeholder discovery across sales, product, and operations teams to identify root causes and required demo capabilities.
• Directed creation of a stable demo environment using clean, scalable data structures that improved reliability, simplified maintenance, and enabled more realistic enterprise workflow demonstrations
Restored stakeholder confidence in the platform demo experience by improving stability and data quality. Enabled advanced enterprise workflow demonstrations that strengthened sales enablement and supported larger, more complex account opportunities.
Education
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
Australian Institute of Business - Adelaide, Australia
Certifications
ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching
ICAgile
Professional Scrum Master Level I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
Pragmatic Marketing - PMC Level II
Pragmatic Institute
Pragmatic Marketing - PMC Level I
Pragmatic Institute
Certified Product Manager
AIPMM
Skills
Tools
Jira, Slack, Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Google Slides
Paradigms
Agile, Scrum, Agile Product Management
Platforms
Productboard
Other
Aha!, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Business Strategy, Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Roadmaps, Product Discovery, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Go-to-market (GTM) Strategies, MVP Design, Product Operations, Product Ownership, User Stories, Requirements, Backlog Management, Prioritization, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Customer-centered Product Development, Outcome-Driven Product Management, AI Prototyping, Technical Product Management, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Systems Thinking, Agile Coaching, Agile Transformation, Product Leadership, Business to Business (B2B), Software as a Service (SaaS), Digital Product Management, Product Coach, Coaching, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Dashboards, Enterprise SaaS, Product Marketing, AI Product Strategy, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs), AI Workflow Automation, AI Roadmapping, API Integration, Data Analytics, Mobile Device Management (MDM), User Experience (UX), Business Intelligence (BI), AI Product Management, AI-powered Product Design, Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS), SQL
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