Summary
Matt Nicole is a Senior Principal Technical Product Manager with 15+ years building search, recommendations, structured data, experimentation, and commerce platforms for large-scale marketplaces. He currently leads Zoro’s product organization and AI transformation, having overseen teams that drove $100M+ in attributable annualized revenue and replaced a top-tier search vendor with a proprietary engine in under 18 months. Previously at Etsy he scaled discovery and taxonomy systems supporting 100M+ SKUs and 7M sellers, cutting taxonomy deployment from annual to daily and unlocking $20M+ in incremental GMS. Matt combines strategic product leadership with hands-on systems thinking—designing experimentation pipelines that increased velocity 15× and shifting decisions from intuition to measurable outcomes. He’s energized by complex marketplace dynamics where small technical and product levers compound across millions of users, and he co-founded a two-person incubator to keep building new ideas and skills outside of his corporate roles. Based in Greater Boston, he focuses on scaling platforms technically, organizationally, and economically while developing product leaders who can scale beyond him.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
not completed, Computer Science, Computational Math, International Business, e-Business, not completed, Computer Science, Computational Math, International Business, e-Business at Rochester Institute of Technology