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title: "Karthik K Gowda - Principal Product Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Karthik K Gowda, Product @ Truecaller | Business Messaging | CPaaS based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and gemini."
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# Karthik K Gowda on Tal

## Headline

Product @ Truecaller \| Business Messaging \| CPaaS

## About

Product Management professional who has been a part of high performing entrepreneurial teams\. I am currently working in the CPaaS sector with Plivo Inc\. I manage API product offerings such as Messaging \(SMS/WhatsApp\) & Number lookup\. Prior to Plivo, i worked with IG Group and effected client outcomes in Payments and Post trade user journeys \. IG is the Leading Online Trading Provider who provides access to thousands of financial markets to its clients with products such as CFDs, Shares, Turbos, Options etc\. My initial Product experiences have been with 2 High growth startups \(in B2C and B2B2C\)\. In these roles i have had the opportunity to build products from concept, recruit & manage tech teams, be involved in user research & testing\. I have spent some time living and working in Norway and Singapore\. I am an alumni of BI Norwegian Business School \(Class of 2013\) and NITK Suratkal \(Class of 2008\)

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

## Work experience

Principal Product Manager at Truecaller, Aug 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Product Manager at Plivo, Mar 2022 \- Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Remote

Product Manager at IG, Jan 2021 \- Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Improve the outcomes for clients who trade in IG Maintain Roadmap for my Product areas with visibility of short term and medium term outcomes Stay on top of prioritization and product decision making

Product Owner for Payments at IG, Jan 2019 \- Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru Area, India

Product Owner at Rewardz Private Limited, Dec 2016 \- Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Working with Rewardz was an opportunity to prove myself as a leader in areas beyond Product Management\. My key responsibilities here were to manage 3 Products \(Mobile \+ Web\), Manage delivery & UX teams, Manage expectations of global stakeholders, Bring in key hires, and culminated in setting up a new office\.

Product Manager at MobieFit Technologies Pvt\. Ltd\., Mar 2015 \- Nov 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, \* 2nd Employee of Mobiefit \* End to end hands on Product Management \(Product vision & concept, Requirement generation, Agile Delivery\) of Mobiefit RUN \* Point of contact between Business leadership and technology/Design team \* Led various revenue generating product initiatives/features

## Education

Master of Science \(M\.Sc\.\), International Management, BI Norwegian Business School

B\-Tech, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

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