Product · Music · AI

Building
things that
matter.

I bridge US & India teams, ship enterprise products, and use AI to work faster than most PMs think is possible. Currently open to Senior PO / PM roles.

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Arnold Kartik

About me

Strategist.
Builder.
Storyteller.

I'm a Product Owner / Manager with 4+ years of enterprise SaaS experience, most recently at Mobile Commons (Upland Software) building the Waterfall SMS/MMS messaging platform used by organisations across the US and UK.

I bridge the gap between US and India stakeholders, speak fluent engineering and business, and obsess over how AI can make products — and teams — dramatically more capable.

AI Product Management Enterprise SaaS US–India Teams CPaaS / Messaging Release Management

Philosophy

Product is a craft.
I treat it like one.

Four years of shipping releases across time zones, managing enterprise stakeholders, and turning ambiguity into clear, executable roadmaps.

Skills & Tools

What I work with.

Product

Backlog Management Roadmapping Sprint Planning Release Management Go/No-Go Coordination Agile / Scrum Stakeholder Management API / Integrations

Tools

Jira / Confluence Figma Azure Boards Notion Power BI MS Excel

AI & Analytics

Claude (Anthropic) ChatGPT Jira AI Assist M365 Copilot SQL Python

Certifications

Six Sigma Google Project Management Artificial Intelligence Tableau Python

Education

Where it started.

PGDM — Operations (Major), Finance (Minor)

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai

Class of 2020 · AIMLAB specialisation

Top B-School

Work experience

Where I've made a dent.

2022 – 2026

Product Owner

Mobile Commons · Upland Software

Served as the primary product bridge between US stakeholders and India engineering — improving release predictability by 25%. Led Go/No-Go coordination for SSO migration, MFA, MongoDB upgrades, and PIN authentication across US & UK production. Leveraged AI tools (Claude, Jira AI Assist, M365 Copilot) to reduce release prep time by ~30%.

Enterprise MessagingJira / AtlassianUS–UK StakeholdersRelease ManagementAccessibility (WCAG)

2021 – 2022

Product Analyst

Solera

Authored detailed PRDs and user stories for 40+ global markets. Led flagship features "Intake Mode" and "Sustainable Estimatics Mode" from concept to release. Data-led prioritization improved sprint velocity by 20%.

AI / ML ProductsData AnalyticsProduct Research

2020 – 2021

Product Analyst

Health Edge

Led full product lifecycle for a mobile healthcare application — from feature definition to go-to-market. Improved app functionality and user engagement by 17% within 6 months.

Mobile HealthAgile / ScrumUser Research

Creative work

Music that means something.

Original composition

Ae Khuda

A spiritual song I began writing in 2017. A deeply personal piece — part prayer, part reflection, part release.

Instrument

Guitar & Piano

I create content around guitar and piano — covers, original pieces, and the occasional late-night improvisation that deserved to be recorded.

Channel

YouTube

Watch my music content, guitar covers, and original compositions.

Watch on YouTube →

Music isn't a side project — it's the other half of how I think. The same intuition I bring to product problems shows up in how I hear and write music.

Get in touch

Let's build
something
worth building.

I'm currently exploring Senior Product Owner / Manager opportunities with a focus on AI products. Open to remote and Bangalore-based roles.

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