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Ved Nikolić

Experienced Product Management Professional & More...

Ved Nikolic

About me

I am a father to two incredible boys, partner to the most amazing woman in the world, a twin, Croatian by descent, Canadian at heart, and a passionate and relentless Product Manager focused on learning and growing in my craft. I'm also a tech nerd, love looking at the stars and watching Seinfeld and The Big Lebowski on repeat.

When it comes to my career, I feel like the more I do the less I really know. No matter what, I focus on the vision and outcomes and trust my drive to deliver results and create impact. It is incredibly rewarding to be able to take a product from defining a problem to a successful release and ultimately customer feedback. This passion has been the foundation to over a decade of product management experience - leading to numerous innovative products - combined with extensive entreprenurial, operations, business development, and communications experience.

Oh and, the ć in my last name is the "ch" sound, so "Ni-koh-lich".

  • Experience 10+ Years
  • Country Canada
  • Location Montréal, QC
  • Freelance Not Available
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    What I do

    Product Management

    Extensive and varied product management experience from strategic product conception and planning to hands on development, qualification, launch, optimization and retirement.

    Product Marketing

    Advanced marketing strategy experience built around the entire product lifecycle that delights customers, maximizes impact and gets the most value out of every product or feature.

    Business Strategy

    Big picture visionary thinker and stakeholder management experience setting a foundation for successful market and product strategies as well as tactics.

    Business Development

    Extensive business development capabilities built on a high level of resourcefulness that was honed by multiple startup and entreprenurial experiences.

    • Education

    • Project Management Professional (PMP)

      Project Management Institute (PMI)

      Project Management Professional is an internationally recognized professional designation. PMP professionals improve the success rate of projects in all areas of knowledge, by applying a standardized and evolving set of project management principles including Agile.

    • Certified Product Manager (CPM)

      Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM)

      CPM designation demonstrates understanding of both the strategic and the tactical functions of Product Management. CPM professionals focus on best practices that break through industry barriers to set the product management standard with proven methods and processes.

    • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

      Scrum Alliance

      CSPO designation demonstrates the ability to break down large products and services into small pieces that can be completed by a cross-functional team in a short time frame. A CSPO delivers the product vision, orders the Product Backlog, and makes sure the best possible job is done for the customer.

    • Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)

      British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

      ACBSP accredited degree program focused on creating well rounded business professionals with advanced critical and strategic thinking skills.

    • Diploma of Technology - International Trade

      British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) - 2005

      Helping create today’s successful managers and logistics coordinators through advanced market analysis, effective entry strategies, transportation, and planning for international trade and transportation.

    • Experience

    • Product Manager - Meta

      Aug 2022 - Present

      Product leadership, organization and execution driving value delivery for hundreds of millions of users accross Facebook, Messenger and Instagram.

    • Senior Product Manager - Best Buy Canada

      Aug 2020 - Jul 2022

      Lead multiple high performing teams transforming how millions of Canadians obtain products and services on bestbuy.ca.

    • Owner/Product Management Consultant - IS Inc.

      Feb 2015 - Aug 2020

      Multiple successful product launches including advanced enterprise and startup projects with budgets of up to $2.25 million.

    • Director of Product - Allysian Sciences

      Apr 2015 - Sep 2018

      Extensive startup strategy development experience along with multiple consumer good and digital product launches in six international markets.

    • Director of Marketing & Communications - USANA

      Dec 2012 - Jan 2015

      Created effective product marketing and communication strategies while enabling sales and growing a mature market 20% year over year.

    • Project Manager - Natureline Solutions

      Nov 2009 - May 2012

      Over 20 products launched in multiple domestic and interantional markets with extensive enterprise level application development.

    • Operations Manager - Bitron Marketing (NA) Ltd.

      Oct 2005 - Nov 2009

      Formulate strategies and executed operational objectives while establishing an effective and loyal team culture.

    Notable Projects

    1000000

    Happy End Users

    30

    Products and Counting

    10

    Years of Success

    3

    Certifications

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