Nick Burton

Senior Product Manager, Tokenization

2023

Senior Product Engineer

2023 - 2023

Founder Fellowship

2022 - 2023

Adviser

2020 - 2022

Head of Product, Consumer

2020 - 2022

Brosa’s mission is to make it simple for people to create a home they love!

Senior Product Manager, Rider Experience

2016 - 2019

Product lead for the Request Group on Rider at Uber. Our mission was to help people move seamlessly through the real world by starting with a mobile experience as easy as "push a button, get a ride". We solved for a growing number of Uber ride options and general friction across the mobile checkout flow. Impact: 1/ Delivered US$242M in incremental Gross Billings in 2019 2/ Shipped globally an evolution to the "Ride Selection" experience, making it easier for people to find, compare and configure ride options 3/ Platformized this experiential & technical stack to help teams rapidly launch new rides, e.g. Bike, Scooter, Transit, Copter 4/ Created an operating playbook to facilitate collaboration with the 10+ teams plugging into our platform 5/ Built the Request Group from 4 engineers into 30+ talents and 3 teams 6/ Recruited two high performing PMs from an APM class of 10; each of whom had 100+ opportunities across Rider, Driver, Marketplace, Eats

Product Manager

2013 - 2016

Launched Swarm App from conception to app store in 5 months with a team of 8 engineers. Migrated 70% of users from the Foursquare app. Launched “Swarm Messages” to facilitate meeting up with friends. Identified improvements to our best viral channel by digging into Facebook’s OpenGraph API. Learnt from a variety of growth experiments including: sign up with phone number, message friends in address book, and check-in reminders. Created a Team Wiki with more than 70 pieces of analysis. Ask me about the rest!

Software Engineer, Android

2010 - 2013

Hustled like hell to build the first version of Foursquare’s local discovery feature in time for SXSW 2011. Implemented a variety of features including push notifications, home screen widgets, photos for tips, and a way to add places to Foursquare’s venue database. Set up a Continuous Integration Server for employees to access the latest alpha builds. Wrote scripts to detect issues with language files and image resources. Mentored an Android Intern.

Software Engineer, Android

2010 - 2010

Built Android applications for Dell, Zendesk and Invoice2Go while at Grad School.

Business Analyst

2006 - 2008

Hired gun. Created financial models and business plans for entrepreneurs during the start-up and growth phase of their business.

Analyst

2004 - 2006

Joined out of college. Built financial models to evaluate the feasibility of major public infrastructure like roads, schools and hospitals.