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# Rahul Narayanan on Tal

## Headline

Strategy & Product Office, Rakuten Symphony

## About

🚀Building high\-impact technology businesses that drive sustainable growth by tackling complex challenges, creating strategy & execution, and designing innovative products that scale\. 💎Specialties: AI & Gen AI \| Tech business strategy \| Product management \| Market valuations & Competitive intelligence \| P&L ownership \| GTM strategy \| Platform thinking \| Ecosystem partnerships \| Business Road mapping \| Data\-Driven Decision Making

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Business Strategy & Product at Rakuten Symphony, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Senior Manager \- Product Strategy at Tata Communications, Oct 2021 \- Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Product Manager at Telstra, Aug 2020 \- Oct 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos, Led strategy & growth of Telstra Programmable Network's Marketplace, the online storefront of VNFs and multi\-VNF hosting hardware\. Focused on expanding vendor ecosystems, enhancing customer experience, and driving innovation to establish the marketplace as a key enabler of software\-defined networking solutions\.

Senior Associate Consultant \- Product strategy at Infosys, Apr 2019 \- Aug 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Scaling Infosys DevSecOps Platform\.

Software Engineer at Cognizant and Clicksoftware, Sep 2014 \- Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

## Education

MBA, Operations and Strategy, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management \(SIBM\) Bengaluru

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, LBS College Of Engineering, Kasaragod

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