Nick Bellistri

Senior Product Manager

Boston, MA

Building AI-Powered Enterprise Solutions and Platform Products

With over 15 years of experience driving product strategies, I transform complex challenges into scalable, data-driven solutions. My work spans diverse industries—from B2B SaaS to mobile platforms—delivering measurable growth and product success through AI innovation and user-centric design.

About Me

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Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Leader with a proven record of creating user-friendly solutions that generate revenue. I've launched new AI features, made platforms faster, and boosted mobile app usage. I focus on clear planning and agile methods to help teams work better and deliver successful products that meet business goals.

Experience

Lead Product Manager – Retirement Platform and API

Income Discovery | 4/2024 – 9/2024
  • Drive API and platform adoption with critical B2B clients
  • Conduct competitive research and drive the strategic development of innovative retirement decumulation products
  • Lead and maintain business engagement of key accounts
  • Increase user adoption 15% by reducing friction points

Senior Product Manager – Generative AI and Platform

Orum | 2/2023 – 3/2024
  • Launched new generative AI features to create meeting summaries, increasing end-user efficiency by 30% and saving organizations $8k per B2B SaaS users
  • Used machine learning to analyze user data and transcripts, leading to features that sped up onboarding by 15%
  • Implemented agile estimation techniques, doubling task estimation accuracy and boosting team velocity by 42%, saving the organization $600,000 annually
  • Mentored junior product managers, imparting product management fundamentals and fostering the development of high-performing agile teams, resulting in improved team efficiency and product delivery
  • Constructed internal and external continuous feedback loops using ProductBoard, improving product iterations and user satisfaction
  • Wrote comprehensive user stories to guide product development based on user research using continuous discovery framework
  • Spearheaded the implementation of an enterprise design system, increasing developer efficiency by 34% and annual savings of over $2 million

Senior Product Manager – Platform Experience and Mobile

Addepar | 6/2021 – 1/2023
  • Scaled enterprise business onboarding workflows by 10x by implementing user-friendly bulk transactions workflow
  • Established quantifiable success metrics for product portfolio and implemented tracking strategies, resulting in improved alignment with business goals and more accurate performance assessments
  • Conducted user research workshops for product insights, leading to a 30% increase in feature adoption and a 20% improvement in product satisfaction within three months
  • Implemented regular agile retrospectives for continuous improvement, achieving a 25% increase in team morale and a 15% improvement in overall project efficiency within three months
  • Increased API performance by 4x for B2B SaaS products by optimizing code and improving infrastructure
  • Collaborated with the agile team to write requirements and acceptance criteria necessary for the team to deliver the incremental deliverables for advisor and investor experiences on web and iOS

Senior Product Manager – Mobile and Platform Growth

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services | 4/2010 – 6/2021
  • Increased mobile app users by 25K month over month for five years, leading to over 1.3 million monthly active users
  • Reduce friction points and optimized onboarding, leading to a 25% increase in plan enrollments
  • Managed mobile and digital project budgets that ranged in size from $4 - 5M
  • Increased participant enrollment on the mobile app by 18% by reducing onboarding friction
  • Directed an agile team of 5-10 members, pioneering enterprise B2B and B2C SaaS mobile apps and web initiatives, driving forward digital innovation
  • Boosted the efficiency of the content management posting process by 50% by streamlining and deploying web content updates using Sitecore CMS
  • Improved enterprise web and mobile app security by implementing passwordless and knowledge-based authentication protocols

Web Marketing Associate

Eaton Vance | 7/2007 – 4/2010
  • Coordinated 6 web marketing projects and value-added campaigns by designing and maintaining the Marketing intranet using SharePoint, resulting in improved team collaboration and project efficiency
  • Managed and developed all web marketing content updates using Red Dot CMS, ensuring timely and accurate content delivery
  • Trained business users, including super users and regular business owners on Red Dot CMS

Education and Certifications

Education

  • MBA - Quantic School of Business and Technology, Washington, DC
  • Bachelor of Arts in English and Professional Writing - University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

Certifications

  • Product Management Foundations - Pragmatic Institute, Boston, MA
  • Agile Certified Product Owner - AIPPM, Boston, MA
  • Agile Certified Product Owner - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  • Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance, Boston, MA
  • Certificate of Project Management - Boston University, Boston, MA

Skills

Product Management

Core Skills

  • Continuous Discovery
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Sprint Planning
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Feature Prioritization

Additional Skills

  • User Research
  • Roadmapping
  • Backlog Grooming
  • Go-to-Market
  • Project Management
  • Marketing Strategy

Testing

  • QA
  • Usability
  • UX/UI
  • A/B Testing

Design

  • Wireframing
  • Mockups
  • Balsamiq
  • Miro
  • Lucidchart
  • Figma

Roadmapping

  • Aha
  • ProdPad
  • RoadMunk
  • Productboard

Platform

  • Confluence
  • Trello
  • Slack
  • Jira

Analytics

  • Google Analytics
  • Heap
  • Pendo
  • Looker
  • Snowflake
  • Firebase

Projects

AI-Powered Meeting Summaries

Implemented generative AI features to create meeting summaries, increasing end-user efficiency by 30%.

Mobile App Growth

Led initiatives that increased mobile app users by 25K month over month for five years, reaching 1.3 million monthly active users.

Enterprise Onboarding Optimization

Scaled enterprise business onboarding workflows by 10x through implementation of user-friendly bulk transactions.

Agile Process Improvement

Implemented agile estimation techniques, doubling task estimation accuracy and boosting team velocity by 42%.

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