David Livingston
Product Manager · Buildertrend
Omaha, NE · davidalivingston@icloud.com · linkedin.com/in/david-livingston-9b05b0ab
Experience
Resume
Professional Summary
Product Manager with a progression from construction software domain expert to PM ownership across Specifications, Plans/Blueprints, mobile webview workflows, approval/signature experiences, and platform integrations. Known for translating field workflow complexity into product strategy, challenging assumptions that create customer friction, and partnering across engineering, design, legal, customer success, go-to-market, and data to ship practical, scalable solutions.
Work Experience
Product Manager
Feb 2026 - Present · Omaha, NE
- Own product strategy, discovery, and delivery across two product teams focused on Specifications and Blueprints/Plans experiences within Buildertrend's construction project management platform.
- Lead cross-functional teams across design, engineering, data, customer success, and go-to-market to define product bets, validate customer problems, and deliver workflow improvements.
- Advanced Specifications from foundational creation and consumption into a more connected platform experience by creating an association layer that enables relevant specifications to be surfaced and consumed within adjacent Buildertrend workflows.
- Drive roadmap direction for the Blueprints/Plans experience, focused on improving how builders access, organize, and consume plan information within critical project workflows.
- Led feature-level mobile webview work by adapting existing web experiences into responsive mobile screens and mobile-specific workflows, supporting Buildertrend's broader strategy to expand full-site functionality on mobile and enable future React Native ownership.
- Partner with customers and internal stakeholders to identify workflow gaps, prioritize roadmap opportunities, and define success metrics tied to adoption, consumption, and workflow efficiency.
Associate Product Manager
May 2025 - Feb 2026 · Omaha, NE
- Helped deliver a new signature experience using the Nutrient SDK across Purchase Orders and Estimates, the platform's highest-volume signature workflows.
- Enabled an opt-out path for internal Purchase Order signatures by challenging the assumption that all internal approvals required formal signatures, saving hundreds of aggregate hours for builders.
- Partnered with legal, design, product, and internal stakeholders to align signature requirements, approval risk, customer workflow impact, and implementation tradeoffs.
- Improved approval workflows by introducing clearer signature status visibility, signed PDF access, and countersignature support.
- Transitioned into product discovery for Specifications, validating customer workflow needs and shaping foundational improvements to make project scope documentation easier to create, share, and consume.
- Shipped foundational Specifications capabilities including draft/publish states, table-of-contents navigation, a book-style viewer, QR/link sharing, version history, and estimate group associations.
- Supported migration strategy for customers transitioning from an acquired platform by improving specification workflows and aligning Buildertrend experiences with familiar catalog-based customer behavior.
- Used customer interviews, analytics, and stakeholder feedback to identify friction points and guide roadmap decisions.
Product Management Apprentice
Feb 2025 - May 2025 · Omaha, NE
- Partnered with a Senior Product Manager and Group Product Manager to support migration of Buildertrend's file viewing experience from a heavily customized legacy Atalasoft implementation to Nutrient, a third-party document viewing SDK.
- Contributed to product and data migration requirements for a platform-level viewer transition impacting file access, document viewing, and long-term maintainability.
- Helped evaluate SDK capabilities, customization constraints, and future tradeoffs to reduce reliance on highly customized legacy infrastructure.
SME - Estimating & Takeoff
June 2022 - May 2025 · Omaha, NE
- Served as a subject matter expert for estimating and takeoff workflows, supporting customer implementation, workflow configuration, and product-adjacent problem discovery.
- Played a key role in the early Square Takeoff acquisition and integration effort by supporting product fit, workflow alignment, scalability needs, and the connection between Buildertrend and Square Takeoff.
- Partnered with the Square Takeoff Product Owner to identify and recommend product enhancements, with several recommendations continuing to influence product development and implementation.
- Helped ideate early AI implementation concepts for Square Takeoff, contributing domain expertise around estimating, takeoff workflows, and customer pain points.
- Created a webinar-style training program adopted organization-wide by Customer Success to scale estimating and takeoff education.
- Developed a paid consulting process for takeoff customization, formulas, company-specific templates, and workflow configuration, contributing to over $100K in upsold revenue.
- Supported go-to-market motions for paid training services, including offering free training as part of annual subscription commitments.
- Helped create a formal Customer Success Manager role following Buildertrend's acquisition of Square Takeoff, combining support, training, outbound engagement, and book-of-business ownership.
- Built deep domain expertise across construction software, customer onboarding, implementation, workflow adoption, and service delivery operations.
Implementation Specialist / Onboarding Specialist
Nov 2019 - Jun 2022 · Omaha, NE
- Led full-platform implementations across accounting, estimating, project management, and property management workflows for a high-volume portfolio of builders.
- Managed and supported 400+ builders, from solo operators to national firms, using consultative training and proactive engagement to drive adoption.
- Drove new customer activation and 90-day adoption through personalized onboarding, workflow configuration, outcome-focused training, and mentoring a team of 4 onboarding specialists.
Founder / Side Project
Feb 2026 - Present · Omaha, NE
- Built a paycheck-based budgeting app designed to help households manage money at the individual paycheck level, creating clearer planning, momentum, and financial visibility across pay cycles.
Landscape Designer
Apr 2018 - 2025 · Omaha, NE
- Delivered premium 3D landscape renderings and buildable design concepts for contractors and homeowners using VizTerra, supporting sales, project planning, and contractor execution.
Owner & President
Apr 2015 - Nov 2019 · Omaha, NE
- Built and operated a residential landscaping business generating $250K+ per season.
- Owned lead generation, sales, estimating, 3D design, scheduling, crew leadership, customer communication, and financial management.
Education
Business Administration
University of Nebraska Omaha
Graduation: Dec 2026
Concentration: Economics & Business Analytics
Skills
Product Strategy
Discoveryroadmap shapingproduct betsopportunity framing
SaaS Workflows
Construction blueprint managementdocument signing & approvalsspecificationsestimating & takeoff
Platform & SDK Work
Nutrient SDKfile viewingsignature workflowswebviewsReact NativeExpoEASmobile web-to-native conversion
Customer & Data Insight
Qualitative customer interviewsMixpanelDatabricksTableauPower BIfriction analysisadoption metrics
Commercial Strategy
Upsell revenuepaid trainingenablementacquisition integration
Skills
Product Strategy: Discovery, roadmap shaping, product bets, opportunity framing
SaaS Workflows: Construction blueprint management, document signing & approvals, specifications, estimating & takeoff
Platform & SDK Work: Nutrient SDK, file viewing, signature workflows, webviews, React Native, Expo, EAS, mobile web-to-native conversion
Customer & Data Insight: Qualitative customer interviews, Mixpanel, Databricks, Tableau, Power BI, friction analysis, adoption metrics
Commercial Strategy: Upsell revenue, paid training, enablement, acquisition integration