Nicole Flores

Overview

Co-founder & CTO of Lantern Learning, working on developer tooling. Took Lantern Learning from zero to $5 million ARR. Raised $5 million across 3 rounds. Before that: LG Electronics and Commonwealth Bank. Most at home with product and community. I mentor students through university programmes.

Experience

1. Co-founder & CTO

   Feb 2025 - Present
   Lantern Learning · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
   • Signed 149 paying customers, 17 of them enterprises.
   • Took Lantern Learning from zero to $6 million ARR.
2. Associate Product Manager

   Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
   LG Electronics · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
   • Cut time-to-first-value for new creator customers from 12 days to 3.
3. Group Product Manager

   Mar 2022 - Dec 2023
   Commonwealth Bank · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
   • Ran 159 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
   • Launched the creator product in 3 markets.
4. Principal Product Manager

   Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
   Google · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
   • Sit on 4 boards.
5. Product Manager

   Apr 2018 - Aug 2019
   Woolworths Group · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
   • Grew creator revenue from $6 million to $42 million ARR.

Projects

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Education

1. Melbourne Business School

   MBA, Business Administration
   2008 - 2010
2. Monash University

   BCom, Economics
   2000 - 2004