Nick Schaden: Resume

Position Engineering Manager, February 2026 - Present
Tech JavaScript / Python
Focus Manages a cross-functional engineering team that owns Encore, Spotify's family of design systems. Encore is deployed across over 40 unique platforms, impacting millions of customers worldwide.
Oversees multiple AI and ML powered design tooling initiatives to enhance quality, reduce time to market, and improve user experiences.
Visit spotify.com

Position Engineering Manager, June 2025 - November 2025
Tech JavaScript / Python
Focus Managed a senior full stack web team that owns and enhances Dropbox's web platform, used by millions of users and the majority of Fortune 500 companies.
Oversaw a comprehensive redesign (technical design, architectural reviews, roadmapping) of the signed in web app experience that led to a 15% increase in year over year engagement and user retention.
After a company restructuring, partnered with design and product to pivot the team away from web platform development into growth onboarding experimentation. Shipped multiple high value experiments while keeping engineering velocity high.
Visit dropbox.com

Position Engineering Manager, May 2022 - December 2023
Tech JavaScript / Python
Focus Managed a front end leaning team at Trello that built growth experiments and feature functionality to encourage engagement with the productivity app. Over fiscal 2023, the team shipped countless experiments that generated tens of thousands additional monthly active users each quarter.
With no EM before my start for over a quarter and no full time PM, wore multiple disciplinary hats and spearheaded a new roadmap planning and project management workflow.
The team owned the most visible and trafficked parts of Trello. The high resulting support load required a frequent juggling across multiple work streams and rapid tradeoff consideration.
After a late spring 2023 company-wide re-organization, transitioned the engineering team into a new growth organization to build cross flow experiences into Confluence. Shipped multiple high impact experiments, resulting in an 10% incremental increase year over year in cross buy purchases.
Visit atlassian.com

Position Engineering Manager, December 2020 - May 2022
Tech HTML / CSS / Sass / JavaScript / Python
Focus Managed a full stack team across U.S. and Canada that owned rewards, coupons, and offers related e-commerce functionality for Instacart's white label customers, including Costco, Loblaws, and other regional grocers.
Led a multi month cross functional team effort to market, promote, and convert customers onto the Instacart Express service, generating millions in revenue over 2022. Guided front end technical initiatives to create new React components and generate reusable, rules based logic to power marketing initiatives. Project managed designers and engineers and weighed tradeoffs to meet deadlines.
Spearheaded modernization effort among rewards related UI on white label clients. This included a long term migration plan from Angular 1.0 to React and standardization of most used components into an enterprise wide UI design system in collaboration with design.
Visit instacart.com

Position Engineering Manager, August 2017 - October 2020
Tech HTML / CSS / Sass / JavaScript / Ember.js
Focus Managed a platform team across San Francisco, NYC, and Atlanta that oversees Dashboard, Square’s flagship web app for millions of merchants.
Oversaw several widescale engineering initiatives, including a new component-based UI design system, a redesign of Dashboard’s navigation, and performance improvements. All span multiple quarters, involve at its peak ten engineers internal to the team, along with coordination across design and product stakeholders.
Helped architect a multi-year technical vision and roadmap for Dashboard as a long term platform for Square merchants and the hundreds of engineers that contribute to its codebase.
Position Senior UI Engineer, October 2015 - August 2017
Tech HTML / CSS / Sass / JavaScript / Ember.js / UX design
Focus Senior developer and designer on Square's flagship web app for sellers and merchants.
Collaborated across multiple teams to build UI patterns and visual interfaces.
Visit squareup.com

Position Instructor, August 2017 - September 2018
Tech UX design / HTML / CSS
Focus Taught week long Skills Intensive (45 hours) for graduate students in Communication Design on Sketch and basic web development.
Generated curriculum, course materials, and exercises.
Visit newschool.edu/parsons

Position Web Platform Lead, April 2013 - October 2015
Tech HTML / CSS / Sass / JavaScript / PHP / UX design
Focus Oversaw development and design initiatives on Pocket’s popular “save for later” web app, extensions, and marketing web site.
Lead features in HTML5, CSS and Javascript.
Assisted other developers on web performance, designers on style guides, UX wireframing in Sketch, and rapid browser and Framer-based prototypes.
Rebuilt most of Pocket’s front end code from scratch based on a responsive grid foundation and progressive, module-based CSS.
Visit getpocket.com

Position Instructor, September 2012 - September 2014
Tech HTML / CSS / JavaScript / jQuery
Focus Taught day-long responsive web design workshop. Designed the curriculum, exercises, and training materials.
Taught ten week (100+ hours of instruction) front end web development course aimed at future developers, entrepreneurs and designers.
Visit generalassemb.ly

Position Senior Front End Engineer, February 2012 - April 2013
Tech UX design / CSS / HTML / JavaScript (jQuery) / Ruby on Rails
Focus Oversaw and managed site wide CSS and HTML on animoto.com.
Collaborated with junior developers and designers for a consistent, modern CSS and HTML5 experience.
Lead developer on a half year long site wide redesign and rebranding project, instigating a module based (SMACSS) CSS reorganization and a responsive web design framework.
Lead development projects with marketing and video engine teams.
Visit animoto.com

Position Lead Front End Designer/Developer, February 2011 - August 2011
Tech UX design / JavaScript (JQuery) / CSS3 / HTML / Python
Focus User experience lead and front end technical supervisor for in-house production applications and client-facing web sites.
Provided wireframes, prototypes and design direction for other developers and graphic design teams.
Developed in HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery for state of the art, web based asset management software.
Visit boxstudios.com

Position Senior Creative Technologist, 2007 - 2011
Tech UX design / JavaScript (JQuery) / CSS / HTML5 / iPad design & development / Ruby on Rails
Focus Technical and creative/user experience lead, responsible for overseeing all design and front end development for gucci.com.
Generated wireframes, style guides and coding guidelines for both internal staff and external agencies.
Developed the majority of gucci.com's branding and e-commerce content in HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Led year long technical redesign of gucci.com.
Visit gucci.com