Nikita Miller

Has worked exclusively with remote and distributed teams across her entire career spanning Shanghai, Europe, Latin America, and five years leading growth and retention at Trello/Atlassian -- products specifically built to enable distributed collaboration. Their core argument: Remote and distributed teams need explicit alignment rituals, documentation, and periodic in-person gatherings for hard problems. The evidence is specific: At The Knot Worldwide, Nikita convened a 48-hour offsite to resolve a strategic direction debate that had stalled for weeks over async docs and comments -- the unlock was giving the data scientist the floor to educate everyone. Furthermore, at Trello/Atlassian, the team established mandatory overlapping work hours while preserving flexibility -- a practice Nikita calls one of the most impactful for distributed teams. Early in her career, Nikita's company brought the entire global workforce together two to three times per year for one to two weeks -- relationships built there persist as friendships and mentorships decades later. In Nikita Miller's own words: "A bunch of advice for working effectively as a remote and distributed team, and the one question that Nikita asks constantly to get the most out of her teams." (Framing Nikita's expertise on distributed teams.)