Karthik Jayaram Arthyadka

Leading the Applied AI-Product Catalog charter that is focused on online growth drivers: 'accelerating the listing process for seller products' and 'enhancing the discoverability of those products'. Produced $187 million incremental attributable sales through -

• Strategy & Stakeholder Engagement: Influenced executives to prioritize taxonomy upgrade as a growth driver. Successfully secured investment for two product squads comprising 2 Product Managers, 4 Data Scientists, and 3 Engineers.
• Goal Setting & Alignment: Established clear objectives and success contracts with cross-functional leaders in product, engineering, business, and operations, ensuring alignment and positioning teams for optimal performance.
• Execution: Monitoring the progress of key results for each squad, aiming for a 40% reduction in product listing time and 18% improvement in click-through rate via advanced taxonomy management leveraging Generative AI.
• Risk Management: Actively identifying and mitigating legal, compliance and adoption risks while making trade-offs to support team success.
• Talent Development: Nurturing growth and professional development of product managers, cultivating a high-impact product team and culture.

Led the modernization of the in-store order picking platform to bring operational efficiencies in service of fulfilling a million grocery orders every week. Oversaw two product teams that -

• Improved pick trip time by 5 basis points resulting in £2.4M in operational savings.
• Launched picking capability to support 30 min delivery promise at 92% schedule compliance.

As the first Product Manager on the Walmart facility maintenance team -

• Established vision and strategy for Walmart Supercenter operations platform, co-established a product charter.
• Launched technician assignments for store maintenance work orders, resulting in $7.3m cost savings through reduction of equipment downtime by 14%.

• Achieved 6% improvement in SLA for airline ticketing support in the APAC region.

• Accenture - Established product market fit for Accenture Life Science Cloud by receiving an investment of $4M from US pharmaceutical companies.
• IQVIA - Improved the medical coding approval rate by 20%.
• Aris Global - Analyzed product requirements, documented and designed solutions.