Nick Schaden
Engineering Manager at Spotify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Schaden is an engineering manager and creative technologist with 14 years of professional experience and over six years leading cross-functional web teams at scale. He has driven growth and retention initiatives across major products—Trello, Confluence, Instacart white-label storefronts, and Square’s Dashboard—delivering measurable engagement and revenue impact through experiments, redesigns, and component-driven design systems. Skilled in front-end architecture and product-facing platforms, he repeatedly modernizes legacy stacks (Angular→React migrations) and builds reusable UI systems used by hundreds of engineers. A practiced collaborator and former instructor, he bridges design, product, and engineering while often wearing multiple hats to establish roadmaps and workflows in under-staffed contexts. Currently managing design systems and AI/ML-powered tooling at Spotify, he blends hands-on technical judgment with strategic leadership to reduce time-to-market and improve UX quality. Outside of day-to-day management he brings a rare combination of creative UX sensibility and enterprise-scale platform experience shaped by both agency and fintech beginnings.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Honors and Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science (B.Sc.), Economics (B.A.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Honors and Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science (B.Sc.), Economics (B.A.) at Brown University
EnglishGithub contributions (3)
nschaden/Tumblr-HTML5
Dec 2011 - Jun 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 6 months
nschaden/Instapaper-Restyled
Jan 2012 - Feb 2012
Contributions:6 commits in 1 month
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