Nils Westerlund

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Co-Founder @ New York, United States
New York, United States
Nils Westerlund's Location
Brooklyn, New York, United States, United States
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About Nils Westerlund

Product and Design leader with 15 years of experience in Product Development, AI and Creative leadership. Working with technology companies and startups to create a positive impact.

Nils Westerlund's Current Company Details
Setset AI

Setset Ai

Co-Founder
New York, United States
Nils Westerlund Work Experience Details
  • Setset Ai
    Co-Founder
    Setset Ai
    New York, United States
  • Runway
    Growth Team Lead
    Runway Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
    New York, Us
    Leading cross functional teams to improve activation and subscriptions across all Runway tools and platforms. We achieved 54% subscription increase in the first 6months, inspiring a company wide culture of bold experimentation by showing learnings (good/bad), identifying highly converting UX patterns, and improving testing infrastructure.
  • Runway
    Product Design Lead
    Runway Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
    New York, Us
    Design is how we imagine the future at Runway. I joined the product design team to bridge the gap between product, growth and design. I co-lead Product Design with our design founder. I identify team needs and challenges, recruiting, establishing design culture, and growing our current talent.
  • Runway
    Product Lead
    Runway Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
    New York, Us
    Product strategy, market + customer research and execution. As the Product Lead, I shaped the product strategy for video creation tools together with the founders, explored product opportunities. I also established and lead product planning rituals, and supported the team to experiment, learn and align efforts with customer needs. 90+ user interviews during the first 6months. 4x yearly growth.
  • Freelance
    Product Design & Strategy — Contractor
    Freelance Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
    Working with startups and technology companies to solve product and design challenges. Designing new digital products, developing organization and product strategy.
  • Doberman
    Startup Investment Manager, Doberman Forward
    Doberman Mar 2018 - Nov 2020
    Stockholm, Stockholm, Se
    Forward is the VC arm at Doberman. We invest in technology companies with a work-for-equity model to solve early-stage design and product challenges. I work closely with our US investments to identify growth opportunities and lead many of our startup engagements in my role as Product Design Director.
  • Doberman
    Product Design Director
    Doberman Jul 2017 - Nov 2020
    Stockholm, Stockholm, Se
    Apart from the creative leadership team at Doberman NYC that grew the studio from 12 to 25 people. I lead cross-disciplinary teams to solve design and product challenges, setting up companies with best practices for continuous product development. Companies included Spotify, IBM, Pearson, and many early- to mid-stage startups on the East and West coast.
  • Doberman
    Experience Design Lead
    Doberman Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
    Stockholm, Stockholm, Se
  • Nils Westerlund
    Product Designer
    Nils Westerlund Mar 2015 - May 2016
    Berlin, De
    Foremost working with technology startups to solve design and product challenges. I also worked with VCs such as Balderton Capital in London to validate investment opportunities from a product perspective and lectured on the future of design systems at NYU ITP in New York.
  • How.Do
    Founder & Ceo
    How.Do Feb 2012 - Jul 2014
    A one million people strong DIY community for makers sharing projects using their mobile device. I created the initial product concept and co-led continuous agile product development with a super talented product team of 8 designers and engineers.We successfully raised funding from top-tier VCs including Daniel Waterhouse (Wellington Partners), Peter Read (Google Ventures), and Mr. Li Ka-shing (Horizon Ventures), and built an advisory board with Charles Adler (co-founder at Kickstarter).
  • Soundcloud
    Growth Initiatives
    Soundcloud Mar 2009 - Mar 2011
    Berlin, Berlin, De
    I led various growth initiatives directed by CEO Alex Ljung, to increase user uploads and community engagement. For example, we created a repeatable product format to scale community-led remix competitions that dramatically increased the number of competitions on SoundCloud. I also led the creative commons licensing initiative and bulk harvested audio samples to create the world’s largest free-to-use audio sample library.
  • Soundcloud
    Early Team Member / Community Growth
    Soundcloud Oct 2008 - Mar 2009
    Berlin, Berlin, De
    I was among the first 10 people on the team SoundCloud, started the community growth team and lead various community growth experiments as well as supporting the public launch of SoundCloud.com.

Nils Westerlund Skills

Music Production Entrepreneurship Music Sound Film Audio Engineering Start Ups Sound Design Radio Recording New Media Studio Recording Audio Editing Advertising Music Industry Mobile Applications Digital Strategy User Experience Digital Media Interaction Design User Experience Design User Interface Design Web Design Web Development Motion Design R Product Design Product Management Javascript Growth Hacking

Nils Westerlund Education Details

  • Stockholm School Of Entrepreneurship
    Stockholm School Of Entrepreneurship
    Venture Creation
  • Stockholm University
    Stockholm University
    Business Administration
  • New York University
    New York University
    Design & Technology

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Nils Westerlund attended Stockholm School Of Entrepreneurship, Stockholm University, New York University.

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