Nikhil J.

Product @ LinkedIn

United States

About

I am passionate about creating products that solve real user problems. With a background in computer science and economics, I have a proven track record of leading and launching successful 0 to 1 products and growth initiatives across multiple product areas.

Experience

  • Principal Product Manager at LinkedIn
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Working on the Premium Team to drive acquisition and retention through partnerships and bundling!

  • Group/Principal Product Manager at Nextdoor
    Dec 2021 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    - Leading the Growth team: SEO, Notifications, Registration, Onboarding, Network Growth (connections, and virality) and Partnerships. - Responsible for driving the company’s core engagement metrics - Registrations, Weekly Active Users (WAU) and Sessions. - During my time at Nextdoor, I have had the privilege of launching multiple 0 to 1 products (for ex: weather.com partnership, Publish and Share APIs) and improving and scaling existing products (for ex: redesign of registration and login systems, optimizing and improving the notifications portfolio, and identifying and launching new levers to drive top of the funnel registrations) - Promoted from Senior Product Manager to Principal/Group Product Manager

  • Senior Product Manager at LinkedIn
    Jan 2018 - Dec 2021 · 4 yrs

    - Developed the strategy and drove the execution of the growth playbook to drive WAU for the flagship consumer product. - Launched multiple initiatives that drove >50% of initiative-driven lift to WAU through optimizations of the PYMK (People You May Know) relevance models, and building a custom notifications portfolio (including push, email and relevance models) for less engaged users. - Drove > 10% lift to the core activation metric “Quality Member conversion” by launching in-product experiences for new and infrequent members. As part of this charter, built and launched “Launchpad” - a top of the feed experience for less active members. I evolved this product into a platform, which was then used by different teams within the company to activate specific user segments (for ex: helping new job seekers take the right actions to find a job) - Promoted from Product Manager to Senior Product Manager

  • Product Manager at Curefit - house of cult
    2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs

    - Venture backed startup that has raised > $150M from top VCs including Accel, and Temasek. - Built 0 to 1 products. Conceptualized, designed and launched the first iteration of the cure.fit app. Built the content team from ground up, and was responsible for the content production (audio and video) of all content (physical fitness, nutrition and mental health) that resided within the app.

  • Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce
    2012 - 2016 · 4 yrs

    - Released Sandstorm, a re-architecture of Sandbox Copy Engine, one of the flagship platform offerings, alongside a team of five engineers. Sandstorm reduced Sandbox creation time 85% for some of our largest customers.