Senior Product Manager
Nicole Bechard
Data · Analytics · AI Products
"I build data products the same way I’ve built my career: by adapting, experimenting, and never waiting for perfect conditions."

I’m a senior product manager with 10+ years building data products that help people make better decisions, at companies ranging from Microsoft and Facebook to scrappy internal startups where I wore every hat to get the product shipped.

What sets me apart is range: I bring deep analytics expertise, a genuine commitment to mission-driven work, and the kind of adaptability that comes from having built products under real constraints, not just ideal conditions.

🌏 Based in Prague  ·  Open to remote and hybrid roles
2022–2024
Prague, CZ

Transforming a nonprofit CRM into an outcomes-driven platform

Led product vision and roadmap for a flagship nonprofit CRM with AI-powered insights. Reversed a critical payments decision, rearchitected the platform for extensibility, and shifted the team from feature delivery to outcomes thinking.

160% increase in monthly active users
2021–2022
Prague & San Francisco

Designing a native analytics engine for teams of every size and skill level

Untangled a messy reporting portfolio, creating an intuitive, scalable solution designed around how teams optimize their work. Led three feature teams from discovery through launch in under a year.

88% usability success rate in testing
2014–2017
Emeryville, CA

Zero to one: building a BI platform inside a company that had never built one

Launched a software-agnostic BI platform for nonprofits from scratch within a services division, wearing every hat from requirements to dashboard design. Prototyped our way through a 75% budget cut to close six-figure enterprise deals.

6 months from concept to user-tested launch
2018–2020
San Francisco, CA

Creating a data product practice that could scale beyond any single engagement

Managed up to four simultaneous customer analytics engagements across industries from fraud detection to international tourism. Built a discovery framework from scratch that replaced an inherited consumer model with one designed for B2B decisions.

90% retention across largest accounts
2017 · Menlo Park (Contract)

Internal Marketing Analytics

Launched an internal analytics product with automated data processing and insight generation for a $2B+ high-growth consulting team. Reduced manual analysis time by 75% and reached 60% of the target user base within six weeks of launch.

60% adoption in 6 weeks
2010–2012 · Cambridge, MA

Predictive Analytics Services

Managed a $12M suite of predictive analytics services for nonprofit direct marketing and major gift fundraising. Launched four new offerings representing $2.4M in two-year revenue, including the company's first donor classification service.

$2.4M in new product revenue
Currently Building

AI Product Prototypes

Using my time between roles to learn AI-assisted building. Exploring what it means to be a PM who can prototype, not just specify. Projects and write-ups coming soon.

Coming soon

I've spent over a decade at the intersection of data and product, building tools that help business users move from messy, disparate data to real decisions. That thread runs through everything I've worked on, from predictive analytics for nonprofit fundraisers to AI-powered insights for CRM platforms used by thousands of organizations worldwide.

I've always told my teams they can change my mind, and I mean it. Some of my best product decisions came from someone pushing back on my first instinct. I've invested seriously in understanding what makes teams work at their best. I study team norms, psychological safety, and experimentation culture as deliberately as I study roadmaps and user research, and I bring that same intentionality to every team I join.

I ask a lot of questions and analyze the data before I propose solutions, and I hold my assumptions loosely. My goal is to improve my customers' lives with every iteration rather than waiting for the perfect solution.

My career has taken me across two continents and a wide range of company sizes and structures, from Microsoft to internal startups where I wore every hat the product needed. Working across San Francisco, Prague, and distributed international teams has shaped how I communicate, how I build trust quickly in new environments, and how I think about the humans on the other side of the products I build.

I'm currently based in Prague and actively looking for a senior PM role focused on data or AI.