Nicholas Barnes

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Senior Product Manager at Wealthsimple | ex-Canadian Tire

Wealthsimple
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
University of Toronto
English, Arabic
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Overview

Senior Product Manager at Wealthsimple, focused on AI features. Grew AI products revenue from $7 million to $30 million ARR. Before that: Canadian Tire and Electronic Arts. Most at home with prompt design and ML.

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Skills
user researchMLprompt designevaluationLLM products
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closes in 3 months

Learning ML - want a mentor for monthly reviews

Goal
Get good enough at LLM products to own it at work.
Where I am now
Some experience
Ideal mentor
Someone who has worked in AI features for a few years
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Every two weeks
What I can offer back
Help with frontend work

9 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

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Experience

  1. Senior Product Manager
    Sep 2023 - Present
    Wealthsimple · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Launched the AI products product in 12 markets.
    • Took AI products activation from 25% to 42% in three quarters.
    • Ran 190 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  2. Product Manager
    May 2021 - Sep 2023
    Canadian Tire · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Grew AI products revenue from $9 million to $19 million ARR.
    • Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
  3. Associate Product Manager
    Oct 2017 - May 2021
    Electronic Arts · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.

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Education

  1. University of Toronto
    BASc, Economics
    2013 - 2017

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