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Product Manager @ Samsung | Ex-Founder | IIM Bangalore

About

I'm a PM at Samsung, working on a consumer facing surface that ships to millions of users. My day to day involves figuring out how to make the product more useful and more valuable, for users and for the business. Most of my work sits at the intersection of consumer experience, monetization, and new product initiatives. Before Samsung, I was the first PM at a climate-tech startup (Boomitra) that was later named in TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies list. I built products from scratch for markets across three continents. Lots of ambiguity, small team, no playbook. Before product management, I spent 7 years running my own business. I started a growth marketing firm from nothing, grew it to a point where it was profitable and self-sustaining, and ran every part of it. Finding clients, managing delivery, making sure we stayed profitable. That experience shaped how I think about products: not just as features to ship, but as businesses to run. I have a CS degree and an MBA from IIM Bangalore. I also like building things on the side. I've shipped a couple of small consumer products independently. Always happy to talk about consumer products, monetization, or the founder-to-PM transition.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

Work experience

Product Manager at Samsung R&D Institute India, Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working on a high-reach consumer surface on Samsung smartphones. I own the product roadmap and work across user experience, monetization, and new product initiatives. My work has mostly focused on three areas: launching new experiences on the surface, improving how users come back and stay engaged, and making the product more personally useful. A lot of my role involves getting alignment between internal teams and external partners who often have competing priorities.

Product Manager at Boomitra, Jun 2022 - Mar 2023 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, First product hire at an early-stage climate-tech startup. Boomitra was later recognized in TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies (2024). I built the core product workflows from scratch across multiple geographies. Onboarding, data verification, farmer-facing tools. Also took a mobile app from idea to launch. Most of my time was spent figuring out what to build when resources were limited and the problem space was new.

Product & Growth at Sportaholic.in, Nov 2014 - Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, Launched the startup’s first product (MVP) and crafted its go‑to‑market

Founder at Afterkite Web, Aug 2014 - Dec 2021 · 7 yrs 5 mos, Founded and ran a growth marketing firm for 7 years. Worked with clients across D2C, e-commerce, fintech, and health-tech, mostly in Europe and North America. I handled everything that comes with running a small business. Finding clients, scoping work, hiring, delivery, and keeping things profitable. Along the way, I also built the first product for a concurrent startup venture, taking it from idea to market.

Product Management Intern at Tradus.com, Jan 2014 - Jul 2014 · 7 mos, Early product experience. Worked on UI/UX improvements for the website and mobile apps alongside the product and engineering teams.

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

B.Tech, Computer Science, NIIT University

Public links

github: https://github.com/suntuu