Heather Nicolaides
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Welcome to my portfolio! This collection showcases a selection of projects, highlighting collaborations with creative teams across diverse industries and project types—from eBay's Product Design team and Nike's North America Brand team to Apple's Marcom team.
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With over 15 years of experience in creative operations as a Program Manager, Producer or Project Manager, I specialize in fostering healthy functioning teams by creating elevated governance through clarity, supporting collaboration and transparency between Design, key partners, and production or engineering teams.
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My strengths lie in:
- Leading in-house design teams
- Managing agency relationships
- Managing complex stakeholder landscapes
- Managing complex and large volumes of deliverables
- Keeping to timelines
- Collaborating and being proactive with cross-functional counterparts
- My comfort and autonomy with leadership
- Forecasting and resourcing work
- Making sure it’s strategically aligned with overall company goals
- Mitigating issues

My Portfolio










