Nicolas Mancini

Product Manager. 6+ years of experience. Henchman / LexisNexis. Belgium.

I turn messy domains into products people trust.

Currently I'm helping attorneys standardise and automate contract drafting and review with AI.

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How I work

I operate at my best at the intersection of business, product, design and engineering. I'm especially drawn to messy domains, opinionated products, and the craft of making technology feel usable, enjoyable, and beautiful.

Tinkering on the side:

Experience

Product • Henchman (acquired by LexisNexis)

  • Own two major product areas in Create+, LexisNexis' flagship drafting product for attorneys, inside Word.
  • Lead discovery and delivery with a 20-person squad across Design, Engineering, Data Science, and legal subject-matter experts.
  • Turned a complex legal-AI opportunity into a shipped product experience for contract review, helping expand Create+ into a new market segment.
  • Helped the product organisation mature after the LexisNexis acquisition by bringing more structure to discovery, cross-functional decision-making, and delivery.

AI-native workflows, Legaltech, Trust & adoption, Enterprise, Scale-up

Product • Oper

  • 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.
  • 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. Shipped a first increment of that roadmap.
  • Helped move the organisation toward a stronger product operating model by making discovery, prioritisation, and delivery trade-offs more explicit.

B2B2C complexity, Product strategy, Discovery, Delivery

Product • EQWIN

  • Came in as a helper to the founders on early product, design, and data decisions for a mobile-first fantasy sports app in horse racing, a brand-new category in a traditional and conservative sector.
  • Shaped a first version of a modern, mobile-native app for horse-racing fans.

0-1, Consumer product, New Category, Product strategy

Product • myskillcamp

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

Product Owner • Radix.ai (now Superlinear)

  • Managed and delivered AI projects for Belgium's most ambitious businesses and organisations, when AI was still early and before generative AI.
  • 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/ML, Product ownership, Client delivery, Business process, Adoption

Technology Consultant • Accenture

  • 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.
  • 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 analysis, Solution design, RPA, AI/ML (NLP, OCR), Agile

Coaching • Ekegai

On the side, I like to give back to the product community with free coaching and mentoring for founders, designers, engineers, and product people.

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Skills

AI competencies
Prototyping, Evals, Design, Agentic development, AI-native workflows
Core Product competencies
Discovery, Delivery, Building high-performing teams, SaaS Architecture, Roadmapping, User Interviews, Usability Testing, Product Analytics, Design Sprints, Cross-functional Leadership, Agile Software Delivery, Project Management, Cross-departmental Collaboration, Vision & Strategy, Launch & GTM, Business Analysis, Functional Analysis
Languages
French • Native or Bilingual, Dutch • Native or Bilingual, English • Native or Bilingual, Spanish • Limited Working, Italian • Elementary

Education

Master's Degree • Business Engineering, Advanced Management - Finance

Solvay Business School · Brussels, Belgium

Exchange · Mahidol University · Bangkok · Sep 2014 - Dec 2014

Bachelor of Science • Applied Economics, Business Engineering

Vrije Universiteit Brussel · Brussels, Belgium

Erasmus · Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze · Prague · Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

Beliefs

  • Everything is always a draft and subject to improvement: code, documents, strategy, process, and taste.
  • The job is not done when something ships. It is done when people understand it, trust it, and use it.
  • The underrated superpower is empathy and understanding how people think and feel.
  • Reduce scope before you reduce quality. Ship less, but ship better.
  • AI leverage is only useful when the human judgment loop gets better, not just faster.
  • Over-communicate > Under-communicate

Reads & Listens

  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant · Eric Jorgenson
  • Prisoners of Geography · Tim Marshall

Contact

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

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