Sam Dickie

Senior Product Manager

2023 - Current

Venture Scout

2022

Scouting exceptional founders with domain experience looking to bring their software ideas to market. Founder and Lightning Capital is the VC arm of the Founder and Lightning Group. Our mission is to make the UK startup ecosystem more efficient for founders, investors and society – starting with product development & capital raising. If you are someone you know is looking to apply please reach out.

Founder and writer

2020

The Creator Club isn't your typical newsletter! No fluff, no sales, just valuable, fascinating content sourced from around the web and distilled into a monthly newsletter. I want to showcase and help you learn from some of the best new and established online creators and makers with my highly curated monthly newsletter which includes stuff such as the latest software products, early access betas, digital trends, learnings, weird internet subcultures and anything else I think will provide humor or value. The Creator Club consists of over 9,000 curious subscribers and growing fast. https://samdickie.substack.com

Senior Product Manager

2022 - 2023

Stacker lets you create the digital tools you need to engage your customers, partners and company, all powered by the data in your Airtable or Google Sheets. At Stacker, we are passionate about providing the tools and resources to help organisations of all sizes to transform the way they work. Our mission is to enable everyone to build and run their own software without writing a single line of code. From local business owners to Fortune 500 companies, hundreds of customers have already seen the value of our platform to quickly and efficiently create the digital tools they need to better engage their customers, partners, and employees. As a Senior Product Manager, I am responsible for overseeing the product development cycle in two squads, which includes customer research, requirements gathering, prototyping, development, and go-to-market execution. We are proud to have the backing of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator, and Initialized Capital.

Senior Product Manager

2021 - 2022

Softr is the easiest way to build custom apps and portals from Airtable, in minutes requiring nocode whatsoever. With Softr, you can build client portals, internal tools, marketplaces, online communities, resource directories, websites and much more. Our mission is to democratize engineering genius and empower 99% of the world, who can't code, to create custom apps for their business or life. We believe everyone should have the ability to create the software they need, without engineers or designers. We are building the world’s largest ecosystem for building no-code applications, where anyone can discover, create, collaborate, share and sell applications. Softr is backed by FirstMark capital and host of world class angel investors in their fields.

Lead Product Manager

2020 - 2021

F+L is a startup studio for non-technical founders to build, fund and scale revenue-focused tech companies. • Created a series of product principles to establish our company's product culture. • Managed founder and stakeholder relationships, negotiating terms, scope, team, and deadlines. • Ideated, architected, coordinated, and launched the first 6-week validation program for early-stage founders teaching 20 founders. • Established a new product and engineering process to ensure portfolio founders undertook problem, solution, and feasibility discovery prior to any development works. • Ran regular founder webinars and workshops to teach product discovery and user testing best practices. • Helped founders raise over $9m in combined pre and seed investment rounds. • Played an active role in recruitment and team development and expansion of the product and design team. • Line managed 2 junior and 2 mid-level PMs and conducted regular job performance reviews and development paths.

Senior Product Manager

2017 - 2020

As a product manager, I have the incredible opportunity to immerse myself across multiple products in various domains, no two projects have been the same. I have worked closely with various early-stage startups and their founders to help define their vision and craft their product roadmap. I undertake extensive market and competitive analysis, laying out a product vision that is differentiated and delivers unique value based on the founder's needs. I articulate the business value to the product team so they understand the intent behind the product and the founder's vision. I have crafted a creative process of generating, developing, and incubating new innovative ideas, collecting curating, and prioritizing the most relevant ideas into features and creating quantifiable metrics to measure success. Working as a Senior Product Manager at F+L has afforded me the opportunity to work with some incredible tech startups and their talented founders. To date I have worked with various startups, taking them from inception to validation and launch in an accelerated MVP.

Product Manager

2017 - 2018

Founder

2017 - 2019

I created BetaTesta through my frustration with the current user testing platforms currently available as the majority of platforms I had found were too expensive for a bootstrapped budget, required me to complete form after form and could take weeks for a response. So I built BetaTesta and launched the MVP In a week. Stats: - Featured on Product Hunt 400+ upvotes - 480+ registered testers - 380+ registered makers - 31K+ Page views since launch

Founder

2016 - 2018

NoCode.Tech was founded in 2016 with the goal of making it possible for people with any level of technical ability to build software and become a part of the digital world. We believe no-code technology has the potential to revolutionize businesses and the way people work, and the only thing stopping it is the lack of accessible and engaging learning materials. Fortunately, since its establishment, NoCode.Tech has provided invaluable resources to more than a million people who are just starting out with no-code technology. In 2018, NoCode was acquired by Concrete Capital, and in 2022, it was acquired by Stacker. NoCode is now a thriving online university, support community, and guide for everyone looking to take advantage of no-code technology, and with the help of groundbreaking learning tools, they are helping people bring their visions to life.

Startup Accelerator Coach

2017 - 2017

Supporting a group of talented entrepreneurs through a 10-week programme, consisting of ideation, validation, building their MVP, marketing, monetisation, pitching and launching.

Senior Consultant

2016 - 2017

Consultant

2014 - 2016