Alexandra Valdescault, B.Eng, MBA

LLMOps & AI/ML @ Zapier | Product Leader | Builder

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

About

I’m an AI Product Leader with 7+ years of experience building and scaling products that deliver measurable business impact. My work has consistently generated $10M+ in incremental revenue and cost savings by combining technical depth with a strong focus on business outcomes. I’ve led multi-product portfolios in e-commerce and aerospace, from 0→1 launches of neural search, personalization engines, and intelligent pricing models, to enterprise-scale integrations with platforms like SAP and AWS. My experience spans shaping product vision and strategy, building business cases that secure executive alignment, and guiding cross-functional teams through discovery, delivery, and adoption. At the core of my leadership style is collaboration and integrity. I believe the best teams thrive when there’s psychological safety, curiosity, and a culture of continuous learning. I’m known for uniting executives and teams around shared goals, while mentoring product managers and engineers to do the best work of their careers. Outside of work, I am an active Toastmasters member, a fitness enthusiast (boxing and squash keep me sharp), and an avid learner focused on emerging AI technologies. Let’s connect! I’m always open to exchanging ideas and discussing the future of product and AI.

Experience

  • Senior Product Manager, AI/ML at Zapier
    Nov 2025 - Present · 7 mos

    Leading product for both AI/ML and AI Platform teams, powering the intelligence and operations of our recommendation models, Zapier's Copilot and agentic systems.

  • SSENSE (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
    • Director of Product Management - Growth & Platform
      Jun 2025 - Nov 2025 · 6 mos

      - Leading both the Growth and Platform portfolios, covering growth strategies (personalization, loyalty, coupons, markdowns, Ad Tech & SEO) as well as pricing, tax & duties and platform integrations between our back-end services and web & mobile applications. - Experience with leveraging LLMs, applied ML, OpenSearch and statistical approaches for personalization, neural search and automation use cases.

    • Lead Product Manager - Pricing & Buying Intelligence
      Dec 2023 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Led the development of AI and operational products in pricing and buying, including a markdown engine recommending discounts across 200K+ products worldwide, driving $10M+ in additional margins season-over-season. Drove 8,000+ hours in annual productivity gains through process automation, while coaching PMs and aligning stakeholders to scale adoption and impact.

    • Senior Product Manager - Buying Intelligence
      Apr 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Built and scaled AI-driven solutions that optimized buying decisions and automated the end-to-end merchandising journey. Defined the 5-year vision for the Buying Intelligence platform, integrated it with SAP S/4HANA, and reduced buying inefficiencies while saving 20K+ hours annually. Secured $4M+ in funding and drove organizational change to maximize adoption and ROI.

  • CAE (Permanent Full-time · 5 yrs 2 mos)
    • Manager - Digital Products (Pilot Experience)
      Jun 2020 - Apr 2021 · 11 mos

      • Managed the strategy, vision, roadmap and end-to-end implementation of a $10M portfolio consisting of 4 products (Pilot training, Pilot community, Crew management and User identity) for 100,000 users, leading a multidisciplinary team of 50 developers, product managers, data scientists, UX designers, and business analysts. • Led the productization of AI models focused on generating new streams of personalized services for pilots, and supporting training centers with predictions of customers' cancellations to optimize operational costs. • Implemented experiments to measure the value of product features to our end-users through A/B testing, and analyze qualitative & quantitative data to better prioritize features on the roadmap.

    • Digital Product Manager (Training Center Operations)
      Nov 2019 - Jun 2020 · 8 mos

      • Defined an end-to-end vision and outcome-driven roadmap for a portfolio of 4 products serving CAE's training centers (Salesforce, 2 legacy apps, Training Center application). Aligned it with CAE's acquisitions and growth strategy, establishing clear outcomes, success metrics, and targets to measure product performance against business objectives. • Led a successful digital transformation of a development squad, resulting in a 400% increase in delivery rate and a 20% reduction in support requests, yielding $500,000 in annual operational savings. • Collaborated closely with stakeholders and business champions to manage expectations and mitigate delivery constraints.

    • Digital Product Manager (Airline Operations)
      Jan 2019 - Oct 2019 · 10 mos

      • Built and shipped a 0-to-1 operator web application for more than 5000+ business aviation companies across the world and achieved a 70% adoption rate. This solution allows for operators to easily enter their pilots' training requirements and documents so they can be certified to fly again. • Led the operationalization and adoption of this solution across all CAE's training centers.

  • Engineering Intern at Siemens
    Jan 2015 - Aug 2015 · 8 mos

  • Engineering Intern at Rolls-Royce
    May 2013 - Dec 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos