Nick Smith

About Nick Smith

I am a curious and passionate product manager obsessed with understanding the customer and identifying opportunities to solve real problems, deliver customer value, and drive growth for the business. I take an analytical approach to achieve customer empathy, evaluating qualitative and quantitative data to understand problems, develop hypotheses, design solutions, measure success, and iterate. I am a people-oriented leader with a proven track record of leveraging strong written and verbal communication skills to deliver results from cross-functional teams and ensure alignment across stakeholders and executives. I am naturally action-oriented with a desire to continuously grow so that I can provide clarity and direction to product teams looking to understand their customers and win their market.

Experience

1. Principal Product Manager

   Redfin

   May 2023 — Present · Bend, OR, US

Education

• Willamette University

  BA, Economics, Spanish

  2003 — 2007

• University of Washington

  MBA, Technology Management, Entrepreneurship

  2010 — 2012

Skills

• Program Management
• Vendor Management
• Business Intelligence
• Primavera P6
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Sdlc
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Product Strategy
• Management Consulting
• Business Process Design
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Earned Value Management
• Training
• Software Implementation
• Ms Project
• Software Project Management
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• User Experience Design
• Enterprise Architecture
• Product Marketing
• Lean Software Development
• Project Control
• Change Management
• IT Strategy
• Process Improvement
• Usability Testing
• Analytics
• Business Development
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Business Process Improvement
• Project Planning
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• User Experience
• Agile Methodologies
• Contract Management