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NICK HYNES

Product Management

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About

For over 10 years I’ve been leading teams, launching startups, growing scaleups, and advising founding teams on how to build outstanding, revenue-generating products for tens of millions of users worldwide.

Mission

I love taking great ideas, turning them into powerful products, and delivering them into happy users’ hands. I fundamentally believe in the power of entrepreneurship, the free market, and technology to change the world for the better by transforming compelling concepts into empowering, value-adding products for users and customers at scale.

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Lessons learned

Domain expertise

Product Management

I'm a Product person. I love to build delightful Products which drive the business forward.

People management

Product is a people business. I've hired, managed, and promoted top-class Product professionals.

Product vision & strategy

Top companies have clear purpose. I've created exciting vision and strategy for startups and scaleups.

Selected works

NA-KD

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Letgo

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Dishy

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PopCard

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Gymr

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Product journey

Beginings
After leaving a promising career in the Military as an Army Officer - during which time I served in Afghanistan on NATO-led combat operations - I moved into the tech space and got close to business customers with real pain points by working at Salesforce. As a Senior Account Executive, I learned first-hand the power of digital products to unlock massive opportunities for businesses and their customers.
Early-endeavours
Having developed the itch to build digital products of my own, I founded the fitness class marketplace app Gymr which led to acceptance onto two accelerator programmes: StartupNext by TechStars and Adopt a Startup by Google. While on these accelerators we made a major pivot and my team and I founded SprintFire - a development agency specifically catered to building MVPs for early-stage startups enabling them to successfully raise Angel investment and venture capital.
Thriving startup
Subsequently, I co-founded Dishy - a subscription-based healthy meals delivery business. We went from idea all the way through to a working MVP and first customers in just 30 days. Dishy continues to this day, with a bigger team than ever before and a customer base which consistently grows month-on-month.
Unicorn
Looking for challenges at scale, I joined the classifieds marketplace Unicorn Letgo where I ultimately oversaw squads and whole verticals pertaining to marketplace growth and building the community. I started my journey at letgo as a Senior Product Manager, quickly promoting up to a Head of Product position where I hired and managed multiple Product Managers. During this time, letgo successfully merged with OfferUp.
Today
After a successful exit, I began to consult with clients including NA-KD with the mission of building a Product and Engineering Org, operational processes, setting Product strategy, and hiring an outstanding, remote-first team of world-class ProdEng professionals. Understanding that NA-KD required longer-term support I took on the interim role of VP of Product, later reverting to a Senior Advisor position once major growth, process, and hiring milestones had been achieved on the path to their own exit opportunity: a planned near-future IPO.
Begginings
After leaving a promising career in the Military as an Army Officer, during which time I served in Afghanistan on NATO-led combat operations, I moved into the tech space and got close to customers with real pain points by working at Salesforce. As a Senior Account Executive, I learned first-hand the power of digital products to unlock massive opportunities for businesses and their customers.
Early-endeavours
Having developed the itch to build digital products of my own, I founded a fitness class marketplace named Gymr which led to acceptance onto two accelerator programmes: StartupNext by TechStars and Adopt a Startup by Google. While on these accelerators we made a major pivot and my team and I founded SprintFire - a development agency specifically catered to building MVPs for early-stage startups enabling them to successfully raise Angel investment and venture capital.
Thriving startup
Subsequently, I co-founded Dishy - a subscription-based healthy meals delivery business. We went from idea all the way through to a working MVP and first customer in just 30 days. Dishy continues to this day, with a bigger team than ever before and a customer base which consistently grows month-on-month.
Unicorn
Looking for challenges at scale, I joined the classifieds marketplace Unicorn Letgo where I ultimately oversaw squads and whole verticals pertaining to marketplace growth and building the community. I started my journey at letgo as a Senior Product Manager, quickly promoting up to a Head of Product position where I hired and managed multiple Product Managers. During this time, letgo successfully merged with OfferUp.
Today
After a successful exit, I began to consult with clients including NA-KD with the mission of building a Product and Engineering Org and processes, setting Product strategy, and hiring an outstanding, remote-first team of world-class ProdEng professionals. Understanding that NA-KD required longer-term support I took on the interim role of VP of Product, later reverting to a Senior Advisor position once major growth, process, and hiring milestones had been achieved on the path to their own exit opportunity: a planned near-future IPO.

If you'd like to know more about my career
and professional background, feel free to get in touch.

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Awards and Recognitions

Startup Weekend

2x Winner

DublinBeta

Winner

Hack/Make

Winner

TOSV

Finalist

SalesForce

Top AE

Accelerator alumnus

Adopt a Startup

Google for Entrepreneurs

StartupNext

Google for Entrepreneurs

Education

B.A. Politics & Sociology

UCD

Master in Management

Smurfit School of Business

Army Officer Commissioning Course

RMA Sandhurst

Prod. Dip. Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing InsTItute

Product Design bootcamp

Designlab

Professional Scrum Master

Scrum.org

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Bookshelf

I'm an avid reader and typically have two to three books on the go at any one time. If you'd like to see some of the top books which I recommend across categories like Product Management, economics, self-improvement and others, just click below.

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Want to learn more?

If you’d like to learn more about me, my background, and what I’m currently up to, feel free to reach out to me directly. I’m always happy to chat with like-minded professionals in the tech space, early-stage founders, and Product Managers building great products.

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