Italian-American Sunday dinner table after the meal in warm late-afternoon light — wine glasses, crusty bread, an espresso cup in a deep teal saucer, a sprig of rosemary, and a leather-bound book.

Mikey
Fiume

Director of Product · New York · Italy

New York raised.
Italian by DNA.

That mix of ambition and balance has shaped everything I've built since. You can see it in how I lead a team, how I work a product problem, and how I show up for people.

Alt text: Mikey Fiume in a New York Yankees jersey standing on an Italian village street at dusk — New York raised, Italian at the core.

I was born and raised in New York, in a home shaped by Italian roots and the kind of ambition Italian-American families just seem to hand down. My parents gave me and my brothers something school and work never could: the belief that who you are matters more than what your title says.

The lesson I carry from those early years is that the best things... the best meals, the best products, the best relationships, are made slowly, with care.

New York also gave me something harder to put into words: constant exposure to every kind of person, and every way of living, working, and getting by. That's where my product instinct comes from. I build for actual people, not personas.

Built for the long game.

My career didn't start with a plan. It started with curiosity, and a low-key obsession with how things work and how they could work better for the people using them.

After more than a decade in product and tech, I've learned the most important skill isn't technical. It's holding two things at once: what the user actually feels and what the business actually needs. Most people pick one. I try not to.

As Director of Product at Wing Tel, that's added up to real results: leading cross-functional teams on telecom products, driving $20M in B2B revenue, and 100,000+ service-line activations. But the numbers came from the culture, not the other way around. We built a team that trusts each other and a product that actually serves the people using it, without choosing between moving fast and doing it right.

Every milestone has reinforced my belief in the power of meaningful connection, through both technology and human relationships.

The best product decisions I've made were never purely analytical. They came from instinct, from paying attention to people, and from caring about the details. That's how I work.