Product Manager - Aplos

About Aplos, Raisely and Keela:

We’re excited to share that Aplos, Raisely, and Keela have come together to form one unified company with a shared mission: to help nonprofit organizations thrive. While we continue to offer the products you know and love, we now operate as one team, dedicated to making nonprofit work easier, more impactful, and more sustainable.

Together, our combined expertise spans fundraising, donor management, financial tracking, and communications—offering a powerful suite of tools designed to reduce complexity so nonprofits can focus on what matters most: making a difference.

We’re one company with 3 products all servicing customers in the impact space. Working at Aplos, Raisely and Keela means that you have the opportunity to build one or across all our products.

We have a combination of merged teams and also teams dedicated to one specific product and you can find details about the work through our job descriptions under the “about the role” section.

About the Role:

As a Product Manager for Aplos, you’ll help shape and grow our fund accounting software, delivering an exceptional user experience for nonprofits. You’ll lead feature delivery, align our product to customer needs and mission, and play a pivotal role in enabling nonprofits to achieve their financial goals.

You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Design, and Customer Success teams to ensure Aplos delivers meaningful impact to its users. This role demands strong execution skills, customer empathy, and a deep understanding of SaaS and accounting best practices.

With Aplos, nonprofit groups of every shape, size, and mission can seamlessly run their finances and operations, manage their business and bottom line, and proactively engage their communities and donors when it matters most. We’re a remote team, spread across North America (with peers all over the world).

Aplos is the largest nonprofit & church management software on the market. We’ve served over 40,000 organizations since our inception in 2009. Our all-inclusive platform provides a dynamic CRM, fundraising & giving tools, online donations & payment processing, built-in fund accounting system, integrated payroll, email marketing, website builder, and much more.

What you'll be doing:

Product Strategy & Vision

• Shape and communicate a clear product vision for Aplos that aligns with customer needs and business goals.
• Build and maintain a multi-year product roadmap while identifying strategic opportunities and potential risks.
• Lead innovation in our fund accounting and reporting capabilities by by creating features that help nonprofits seamlessly monitor and run their finances.

Customer-Centric Product Development

• Lead user research and interviews to deeply understand customer workflows, pain points, and objectives.
• Create and prioritize clear product requirements, user stories, and use cases.
• Partner with the Engineering Manager of your team to help guide and unblock the engineering team and answer product questions.
• Work closely with Design to deliver intuitive, high-impact solutions.

Execution & Delivery Excellence

• Guide Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Direct the development and launch of new features, integrations, and platform improvements.
• Monitor and evaluate key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure impact and drive continuous improvement.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Bridge communication between internal teams to ensure alignment and effective collaboration.
• Work with Marketing to develop compelling messaging for new features and capabilities.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration with Raisely and Keela to drive innovation across the nonprofit sector.

Requirements

Experience

• 2+ years of accounting experience, with a strong understanding of accounting best practices
• **PLEASE NOTE: Account experience is required for this position
• 2+ years of product management experience, ideally in SaaS, or online accounting
• Track record of successfully leading product lifecycles—from initial research through delivery and continuous improvement

Skills & Competencies

• Technical aptitude with the ability to analyze and simplify complex systems and workflows
• Demonstrated success in conducting user research and turning insights into meaningful product improvements
• Outstanding communication skills, with proven ability to align and influence cross-functional teams
• Proficiency with Agile methodologies and project management tools like Jira, Linear, or similar platforms
• Self-motivated and adaptable, with a strong ability to learn independently and work effectively with minimal guidance.

Bonus Points

• Experience collaborating with distributed teams across multiple time zones

Benefits

• 💵 Salary – Pay range depends on location and is $118,000 - 145,000 CAD . Your base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, experience, and geographic location. 
• 🏝️ Remote work & leave – We’re a remote-first company. We also have generous PTO plans (4 weeks of vacation, volunteer time off, plus an office closure from Christmas to New Year’s Day!) and support paid parental leave (12 weeks).
• ❤️ Health Coverage & RRSP - We offer robust medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverages and have a 4% match on RRSP.

If you have any questions or require accommodations in the interview process, please reach out to recruitment@aplos.com.

Aplos, Keela and Raisely’s Commitment to Equal-Employment, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

We know with diversity comes strength. Aplos provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.