Nick Kennedy

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VP of Product at Glade Logistics | ex-American Express

Glade Logistics
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
10+ years experience
Duke University
English
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Overview

Based in New York. I lead developer products at Glade Logistics. Grew developer revenue from $7 million to $31 million ARR. Cut time-to-first-value for new developer customers from 11 days to 3.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
SDKsdeveloper experiencetechnical product managementdocumentationAPIs

Experience

  1. VP of Product
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Glade Logistics · 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
    • Took developer activation from 23% to 50% in three quarters.
  2. Senior Product Manager
    Nov 2024 - Apr 2026
    American Express · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Took developer activation from 27% to 43% in three quarters.
  3. Director of Product
    Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
    eBay · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Killed 4 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
  4. Product Manager
    Nov 2019 - Feb 2023
    Goldman Sachs · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Launched the developer product in 13 markets.
    • Took developer activation from 29% to 47% in three quarters.
  5. Principal Product Manager
    Jul 2016 - Nov 2019
    Nike · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Led or co-led 8 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.

Projects

Open-source technical product management toolkit
2025

A small library for developer products that 723 developers star on GitHub.

Conference talk: lessons from developer
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer products.

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Education

  1. Duke University
    BS, Engineering
    2002 - 2006

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