Cole Atkinson
Senior Product Manager at Shopify
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolCole Atkinson is a Product Manager III with nine years of cross-functional experience in ecommerce, sales and marketing, now based in Kingston, Ontario after relocating from New Zealand. He progressed through technical and customer-facing roles at Shopify—from Launch Engineer and Merchant Success Manager to Senior Product Manager—before joining Lightspeed, blending deep platform knowledge with hands-on replatforming and integration experience. Known for building strong internal and merchant relationships, he repeatedly drove measurable growth (including 400% ecommerce revenue growth at Rubber Tree) by turning customer insights into go-to-market and conversion strategies. He combines strategic product leadership with practical technical fluency around Shopify APIs, themes, and migrations, making him equally effective with engineers and commercial stakeholders. Colleagues describe him as relentlessly committed and people-first, with a track record of delivering sales and marketing initiatives that materially improve business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
NCEA Level 3 with Merit, NCEA Level 3 with Merit at Westlake Boys' High SchoolConjoint Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Property (B.Com/B.Prop), Marketing, Management, Conjoint Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Property (B.Com/B.Prop), Marketing, Management at University of Auckland
English
Stackoverflow
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Shopify/shopify-scripts
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:85 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 months
coleatkinson/hello-world
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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