Nickey Skarstad
Nickey Skarstad is a Director of Product Management at Duolingo, where she is leading a stealth 0 → 1 product. Prior to Duolingo, she was VP of Product at The Wing, Product Lead at Airbnb, where she led much of the Experiences product team, Product Lead at Shopify, and Director of Product Management at Etsy.
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Career (separate track) Skills
Evaluate new career opportunities by identifying the specific product complexities and business models that align with your natural strengths and personality.
"When I took a step back and was like, all right, what do I want to do next? I really loved the marketplace component at Etsy. And I don't know if this is just says something about my personality, or a..."
Strategy & Positioning Skills
Counteract the pressure of aggressive scaling by establishing high-standard quality metrics as top-line goals to protect the end-user experience.
"One of the things Airbnb did for experiences is we had this balancing metric, which was basically using the review rate as sort our end all, be all top line goal. So you can imagine a business like th..."