Nick Burton
Senior Product Manager, Tokenization at Fireblocks
Melbourne, Victoria
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager, Tokenization
2023 - 2024
Joined Fireblocks as part of the BlockFold acquisition. Led cross-functional teams across Melbourne and Tel Aviv to deliver 10+ features, contributing to first-year revenue in the tens of millions.
Fireblocks is a blockchain security service provider for moving, storing, and issuing digital assets.
Raised $1,039,000,000.00 from IPOSharks.
Senior Product Engineer
2023 - 2023
Joined BlockFold as a Software Engineer with the intention to establish a technical foundation in a new development paradigm. Built Ethereum Smart Contracts for a listed Digital Asset Manager in Australia. Led presentations that positioned our product & team as a strategic fit for Fireblocks. BlockFold was acquired by Fireblocks in August 2023!
Founder Fellowship
2022 - 2023
Successful entry into US-based start-up accelerator. Raised USD$150k to explore on/off-ramp product opportunities in the blockchain space. Identified several opportunities but given the funding climate (interest rates up, liquidity down) and an honest reflection of our venture scale aspirations, decided to return 50 cents on the dollar to investors and wind down the company.
Head of Product, Consumer
2020 - 2022
Brosa’s mission was to make it simple for people to create a home they love! Impact: 1/ Delivered $3.8M in incremental online revenue 2/ Recruited high-calibre Engineering & Product Design leadership 3/ Partnered with the Exec team to establish new operating procedures
Senior Product Manager, Rider Experience
2016 - 2019
Product lead for the Request Group on Rider at Uber. Our mission was to help people move seamlessly through the real world by starting with a mobile experience as easy as "push a button, get a ride". We solved for a growing number of Uber ride options and general friction across the mobile checkout flow. Impact: 1/ Delivered US$242M in incremental Gross Billings in 2019 2/ Shipped globally an evolution to the "Ride Selection" experience, making it easier for people to find, compare and configure ride options 3/ Platformized this experiential & technical stack to help teams rapidly launch new rides, e.g. Bike, Scooter, Transit, Copter 4/ Created an operating playbook to facilitate collaboration with the 10+ teams plugging into our platform 5/ Built the Request Group from 4 engineers into 30+ talents and 3 teams 6/ Recruited two high performing PMs from an APM class of 10; each of whom had 100+ opportunities across Rider, Driver, Marketplace, Eats
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.
Product Manager
2013 - 2016
Launched Swarm App from conception to app store in 5 months with a team of 8 engineers. Migrated 70% of users from the Foursquare app. Launched “Swarm Messages” to facilitate meeting up with friends. Identified improvements to our best viral channel by digging into Facebook’s OpenGraph API. Learnt from a variety of growth experiments including: sign up with phone number, message friends in address book, and check-in reminders. Created a Team Wiki with more than 70 pieces of analysis. Ask me about the rest!
Software Engineer, Android
2010 - 2013
Hustled like hell to build the first version of Foursquare’s local discovery feature in time for SXSW 2011. Implemented a variety of features including push notifications, home screen widgets, photos for tips, and a way to add places to Foursquare’s venue database. Set up a Continuous Integration Server for employees to access the latest alpha builds. Wrote scripts to detect issues with language files and image resources. Mentored an Android Intern.
Software Engineer, Android
2010 - 2010
Built Android applications for Dell, Zendesk and Invoice2Go while at Grad School.
Business Analyst
2006 - 2008
Hired gun. Created financial models and business plans for entrepreneurs during the start-up and growth phase of their business.
Analyst
2004 - 2006
Joined out of college. Built financial models to evaluate the feasibility of major public infrastructure like roads, schools and hospitals.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce
2001 - 2004
Master of Computer Science
2008 - 2011