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Foued Sassi

Foued Sassi

Product Director · Ontraport

Product Director with 11+ years at Ontraport, leading product management, UX/UI design, and education for a 60-person SaaS company. I own strategy and roadmap across payments, AI, CRM, mobile, and onboarding, and drive execution from discovery to launch with clear success metrics.

Experience

Product Director

Oct 2023 – Present

Ontraport · Santa Barbara, CA

  • Lead Product Management, UX/UI Design, and Education for a 60-person SaaS company, with 5 direct reports across PM, design, and education.
  • Own product strategy and roadmap across payments, AI, CRM, mobile, and onboarding, sequencing concurrent initiatives against company goals.
  • Led Ontraport's AI initiative (V1): shipped an in-app chat assistant with read-only agents, a rebuilt LLM gateway, feedback loop, and evaluation framework.
  • Introduced AI prototyping and spec workflows used across the product team, reducing idea-to-spec time by 50%+.
  • Rebuilt the product operating system and revamped the design system and education program, improving consistency and speed across the team.

Product Manager

Feb 2017 – Oct 2023

Ontraport · Santa Barbara, CA

  • Shipped 50+ projects from discovery to release across payments, CRM, booking, messaging, and integrations.
  • Led Invoices and Payments v2: separated invoices from payments, added refund invoices, change orders, and a full billing revamp.
  • Shipped multi-currency support via Stripe, including conversion handling, refunds in the original currency, and updated reporting.
  • Launched Inbox (email channel, CC support, message logs) and built Ontraport's web chat and chatbot with AI responses, automation, and targeting.

Engineering Project Manager

May 2015 – Feb 2017

Ontraport · Santa Barbara, CA

  • Directed engineering project execution, managing resource allocation and cross-team dependencies for concurrent product initiatives.
  • Built project plans and delivery milestones that improved on-time delivery across the engineering organization.