Summary
Simon Zimmerman is a product and technology leader with 11 years’ experience building place-management software for Business Improvement Districts, councils, DMOs and property owners. As Chief Product Officer at Vicinity, he combines hands-on frontend engineering (JavaScript/TypeScript) and scrum leadership to translate complex customer needs into scalable product and data migration solutions. He previously led Solomon UK, tailoring software to help UK towns and shopping centres become safer, cleaner and more sustainable places to invest in. His background in national arts programmes honed stakeholder coordination, governance and evaluation skills that inform his customer-first approach to product strategy. Based in Leeds, he is both an industry data expert for BIDs and a practitioner who stays deeply involved in implementation rather than delegating purely to engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management, General, Business Administration and Management, General at Leeds University Business School
English