Hello, I'm Nico.

Portrait of Nicolas Mancini

I work on the space between product judgment, design craft, and AI-native capability. Right now, I build products at Henchman / LexisNexis, where the hard part is not adding AI to legal work. It is turning complex drafting and review workflows into tools lawyers can understand, trust, and actually adopt. I am drawn to messy domains, opinionated products, and the craft of making technology feel usable without making it simplistic.

Currently tinkering with

  • Using AI tools to prototype faster without outsourcing product judgment
  • Building a personal operating system for product work in Cursor

Experience

Product Henchman

Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Role

  • Own two major product areas in Create+, LexisNexis' flagship drafting product for attorneys.
  • Lead discovery and delivery with a 15-person squad across Design, Engineering, Data Science, and legal subject-matter experts.

Impact

  • Turned a complex legal-AI opportunity into a product workflow by separating model capability questions from attorney trust, review, and adoption questions.
  • Launched a new product direction for contract review against firm benchmarks, expanding Create+ into a new customer segment.
  • Helped the product organisation mature after the LexisNexis acquisition by bringing more structure to discovery, cross-functional decision-making, and delivery.
AI-native workflowsLegaltechTrust & adoptionEnterpriseScale-up

Product Oper

Feb 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Role

  • Owned the Advisory product area in Oper's digital mortgage platform.
  • Shaped product vision, strategy, and UX for the Advisory suite with a cross-functional Design and Engineering squad.

Impact

  • Turned a broad advisory opportunity into a shippable first product by clarifying which mortgage decisions belonged to brokers, lenders, banks, and borrowers.
  • Aligned roadmap and UX across a complex B2B2C workflow so different users could act from one coherent product experience.
  • Helped move the organisation toward a stronger product operating model by making discovery, prioritisation, and delivery trade-offs more explicit.
B2B2C complexityProduct strategyDiscoveryDelivery

Product EQWIN

Aug 2022 - Feb 2023 · 6 mos

Impact

  • Helped the founders shape early product, design, and data decisions for a mobile-first fantasy sports app in a traditional category.
  • Worked on the tension between a familiar horse-racing world and a more modern, mobile-native product experience.
0-1Consumer productNew CategoryProduct strategy

Product myskillcamp

May 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

Role

  • Owned roadmap, prioritisation, and delivery for the creator experience.
  • Led discovery and delivery with a 10-person Design and Engineering squad.

Impact

  • Improved the creator workflow for enterprise learning teams by turning broad platform needs into focused product increments.
  • Strengthened discovery and delivery habits in the squad through user research, experimentation, and a clearer release cadence.
Enterprise learningDiscoveryDelivery

Product Owner Radix.ai (now Superlinear)

Oct 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Role

  • Managed and delivered AI projects for ambitious Belgian businesses and organisations.

Impact

  • Built early product instincts for AI work by seeing where promising models met messy business process, adoption, and delivery constraints.
  • Translated AI/ML possibilities into project scopes clients could understand, evaluate, and put into operation.
AI/MLProduct ownershipClient deliveryBusiness processAdoption

Technology Consultant Accenture

Mar 2017 - Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Role

  • Delivered across client engagements at financial institutions, from global insurance to Belgian banking and financial market infrastructure.
  • Led process analysis, business analysis, and solution design from functional and technical requirements.
  • Applied Agile delivery and certified Scrum Master practices on client projects.

Impact

  • Learned how large organisations absorb technology change by contributing to intelligent automation, RPA, and operating-model work in regulated financial environments.
  • Built a foundation in turning complex stakeholder, process, and system constraints into deliverable technology work.
Process & business analysisSolution designRPAAI/ML (NLP, OCR)Agile

Projects

A selection of projects I've worked on, showcasing product strategy, design, and development across various industries.

Skills

Core Competencies

DiscoveryDeliveryBuilding high-performing teamsSaaS ArchitectureCross-functional LeadershipCross-departmental CollaborationVision & StrategyLaunch & GTMBusiness AnalysisFunctional Analysis

Tools & Methods

RoadmappingUser InterviewsPrototypingUsability TestingProduct AnalyticsDesign SprintsAgile Software DeliveryProject Management

Languages

French Native or BilingualDutch Native or BilingualEnglish Native or BilingualSpanish Limited WorkingItalian Elementary

Education

Master's Degree Business Engineering, Advanced Management - Finance

Solvay Business School

Brussels, Belgium

Sep 2013 - Jun 2016

International Exchange Program Business Studies

Mahidol University

Bangkok, Thailand

Sep 2014 - Dec 2014

Erasmus Exchange Program Business Studies

Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze

Prague, Czech Republic

Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

Bachelor of Science Applied Economics, Business Engineering

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Brussels, Belgium

Sep 2010 - Jun 2013

Contact

Let's connect and discuss new ideas, products, or collaborations.

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