Ted Nielsen

Ted Nielsen has over 15 years of experience in product management and leadership roles. From 2006 to 2011, they were a Researcher at the University of Chicago. From 2011 to 2016, they were a Product Principal at ThoughtWorks, where they built a $20M consulting services P&L with teams in 3+ international locations for a Fortune 20 retail client and scaled Lean Startup to enterprise complexity in travel, telecommunications, retail, and media. Ted was then promoted to Head of Product, North America in 2016. From 2016 to 2020, they were the Senior Director of Product, Platform & Integrations and Director of Product, Replatforming at Ultimate Software. During this time, they achieved end-to-end replatforming of a $1.3B ARR product suite on a modern, flexible set of platform solutions and reduced new product TTM by over 60%. From 2020 to 2022, they were the Vice President of Product Management at UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group). During this time, they had P&L responsibilities for a substantial-attach product line, alongside multi-line support for data, data science, and application platforms powering an award-winning $3. Currently, they are the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at viaPhoton.

Ted Nielsen attended the University of Chicago from 2006 to 2010, where they earned an AB in Classics.