CLEARED FOR HIRE
NAME:ZALESKI, NICK
ALIASES:Nikolai · Mikalai · Mikołaj
ADDRESS:Warsaw, Poland
STATUS:EU citizen, operating remote
OCCUPATION:Product Manager & Builder
Nick Zaleski
LinkedIn AI Product Builder

SUBJECT STATEMENT / MODUS OPERANDI:

Product Manager with 5+ years shipping AI tools, internal platforms, and consumer-facing growth experiments. Subject prototypes end-to-end in hours, not weeks (Cursor + Lovable + Supabase), and validates with A/B tests, fake-door experiments, session replays, and unit economics. Considered highly productive. Approach with a job offer.

PREVIOUS:

2020 — PRESENT

Operating an unlicensed AI product pipeline

Product Manager — ALCONOST — localization company, ~100 people · committed remotely

AI playable-ads pipeline — alconost.video/playable-ads

Built an AI-driven production pipeline that helps app and game companies scale user acquisition. Auto-generates playable HTML5 game ads plus matching video cuts, with every platform resize (Meta, Google, TikTok, Unity, AppLovin) produced automatically. Concepts are prototyped, polished into network-ready ads, then hyperlocalized into hundreds of audience-specific variants — more ads delivered, more ideas tested, more conversions for clients.

AI Data Labeling Platform — multimedialabeling.com (0 → live)

Built a full-stack platform that streamlines AI training-data collection and QA: multi-language audio recording, speaker qualification forms, automated quality scoring, and an admin dashboard. Stack: Lovable, Supabase, Cursor. Result: easy, manageable, continuous delivery of high-quality datasets.

Alconost MT suite — alconost.mt (evaluate, glossary)

Owns product management for the MT suite. Shipped the core app that evaluates translations across multiple LLMs, plus a glossary tool. Aligned with CEO and CMO, ran design workshops, managed engineers, shipped through release, then improved via A/B tests, fake-door experiments, and analytics.

Kraken — internal marketing intelligence tool (0 → live)

Identified manual app-store data collection as the team's biggest bottleneck. Built a small team (one designer, two engineers) and shipped a web app aggregating data from App Store, Google Play, Steam, Nintendo, and Epic Games. Now powers 3+ ABM campaigns a month.

alconost.com redesign + multilingual rollout

Used GA4 and Hotjar session replays to find funnel leaks, coordinated an international team on regional design and content, managed localization in Crowdin with AI translation + human post-editing. Result: lifted conversions across target regions.

2018 — 2020

Aggravated business growth — grew a travel agency 7 → 80 monthly customers in 12 months

Business Development Manager — VISPANIU — travel agency · Minsk

Full operation, end to end

Designed and shipped the company website (Figma + Tilda) with online and offline sales flows and lead-capture forms. Ran content, social, and Meta ad campaigns. Negotiated supplier deals at industry conferences and expanded operations to new regions.

2015 — 2018

Running a multi-marketplace operation across four booking platforms

Operating Officer — ATTHETOP HOSTELS GROUP · Dubai

Channel manager racket

Integrated Cloudbeds channel manager across Airbnb, Booking.com, Agoda, and Expedia, eliminating manual sync work and reducing overbooking incidents. Hired, trained, and led the operations team. Drove repeat bookings through direct guest communication and personalized upsells.

KNOWN CAPABILITIES:

PRODUCT Discovery · Roadmapping · Prioritization · A/B & fake-door tests · Unit economics · User research · Agile delivery
BUILDING Cursor · Lovable · Supabase · Figma · Basic React/JS · Xcode
ANALYTICS GA4 · Amplitude · Hotjar
AI / LLM Prompt engineering · LLM evaluation · AI-assisted development

TRAINING ON RECORD:

Bachelor in Programming — Minsk Innovation University 2010 — 2015
Data-Driven Product Management Simulator — GoPractice 2022 — 2025
Front-End — IT Academy 2020 — 2021
UX/UI Design — Adukar 2019 — 2020

LANGUAGES INTERCEPTED:

English (Advanced) · Belarusian / Russian (Native) · Polish · Spanish

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