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title: "Sudarsan Sabesan - Senior Technical Product Manager in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
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# Sudarsan Sabesan on Tal

## Headline

Product @Smarsh \| AI Surveillance & Data Governance \| Startup & Product Mentor \| Angel Investor \| Speaker \| Musician \| IIM Bangalore & Renmin Business School \(RBS\) China \| Product School \| Ex\-Target, hp

## About

✅ As an Innovation, Product and Technology Leader with 20 years of expertise, I am passionate about driving Growth Initiatives, building Competitive Advantage, and fostering Impactful Innovation by building Scalable Products, Businesses and high performing cross\-functional Teams\. ✅ Currently leading the Product & Strategy for AI Surveillance and Data Governance at Smarsh that provides Actionable Insights designed to: \- Analyze context, sentiment and behavioral signals beyond simple keyword detection \- Detect early indicators of misconduct, policy violations or reputational risk \- Reduce false positives by up to 95% and surface up to 5x more true issues \- Identify risks 3x faster with real\-time monitoring and automated alerting \- Integrate seamlessly into compliance workflows for proactive response ✅ Earlier, spearheaded the Product Innovation & Strategy for Deep\-Tech, Sustainability and Social Impact initiatives at Target Corporation \(Accelerators\) to scale Target's business based on emerging technology & market trends collaborating and co\-innovating with leaders & teams across pyramids at Target and the Global Innovation Ecosystem \(Startups, Academia, Investors, Incubators and Accelerators, and Corporate Innovation across GCCs\) driving meaningful innovation and delivering tangible results\. ✅ Orchestrated the discovery and delivery of products with a strong track record of successfully launching scalable products that have significantly bolstered revenue, cost\-takeout, and bid support for multi\-million dollars offering thought leadership, establishing scope and timelines, analyzing requirements, prioritizing tasks, identifying dependencies, and evaluate risks spanning across various domains including Retail, Sales, Marketing, and Finance\. ✅ Led high\-performing cross\-cultural teams spread across India, Americas, Asia, and Europe helping the teams to effectively navigate diverse cultural contexts and lead them to success while building a culture of creativity and continuous improvement expanding intellectual property and product diversity\. ✅ Passionate about continuous learning and giving back to the community through mentoring Startup Founders, Product Managers, and students, Angel Investing in early stage Start\-ups, Speaking & Jury engagements, and pursuing my passion as a Musician\. \*\*Disclaimer: All statements, views, or opinions expressed in my posts or articles on LinkedIn are my own and not those of my current / former employer\(s\) or academic institution\(s\)\.\*\*

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

langchain

langgraph

langsmith

n8n

## Work experience

Senior Technical Product Manager at Smarsh, Sep 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Currently leading the Product & Strategy for AI Surveillance and Data Governance at Smarsh that provides Actionable Insights designed to: \- Analyze context, sentiment and behavioral signals beyond simple keyword detection \- Detect early indicators of misconduct, policy violations or reputational risk \- Reduce false positives by up to 95% and surface up to 5x more true issues \- Identify risks 3x faster with real\-time monitoring and automated alerting \- Integrate seamlessly into compliance workflows for proactive response

Mentor, Speaker & Jury at Multiple, Aug 2018 \- Present · 8 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Mentored 100\+ Early\-stage Startups, aspiring & experienced Product Managers, and Students on on Innovation, Product, Strategy, Fundraising, Sales & Marketing, Strategic Alliances, International Expansion, Product Development, and Investor Relations\. \- Host, Speaker and Jury member at 50\+ Product & Startup events\.

Head of Innovation \(Target Accelerators\) at Target, Jun 2022 \- May 2024 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading the Innovation programs at Target in India: \- Target Accelerator Program \- Launched in 2014, this four\-month program seeks out transformative and technology\-driven ideas to create solutions for today’s rapidly changing retail environment\. As we build relationships within the International startup ecosystem and help to bring highly innovative technology startups to Target, this program helps entrepreneurs develop, test and scale their products and solutions via engagement with Target business leaders\. \- Team Member \(Employee\) Incubator \- Launched in 2019, offering employees at Target the same opportunities, coaching, networking & acceleration that Target provides to external start\-ups, this is a global platform where employees with innovative ideas, addressing Target's strategic priorities, can develop these ideas into breakthrough solutions with the goal to scale\.

Senior Product Manager \(Guest Data Platform\) at Target, Jun 2021 \- Jun 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led Guest Identity Resolution Products within Guest Data Platform \(A system that centralizes guest data and makes it available to the enterprise for use in marketing campaigns, guest service, guest experience and guest engagement initiatives\) with teams of Engineers and Data Analysts across India and US to help create a unified view of 250\+ Million customers to Target and a unified view of Target to these customers\.

Lead Product Owner \(Target Circle\) at Target, Jan 2020 \- Jun 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Led the Target Circle \(Loyalty Fraud & Abuse Mitigation\) Product working with a cross\-functional team of Cyber Fraud, Assets Protection, Data Analysts, Operations and Engineering teams to help monitor and mitigate the Loyalty Fraud & Abuse of Target's flagship Loyalty program used by 100\+ Million Users saving Millions of Dollars for Target\. Also led the Loyalty Platform Modernization with teams of Engineers, Data Analysts and Ops Analysts across India and US and also rearchitecture the Legacy Loyalty Platform to scale up from 2M to 100M\+ Loyalty Customers and an incremental sales of up to $1 Billion Dollars per year\.

Product Owner \(Channel Data Management \- Partner Compensation\) at DXC Technology, Apr 2017 \- Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Led concept\-to\-launch of channel sales data management portfolio of products with cross\-functional teams of product owners, Scrum Masters, architects, engineers, UX/UI designers, & QA across India, Singapore, Romania, US, and China to create and manage programs for channel partners that incentivize sales and improve topline growth\. About Partner Compensation: HPE has been working with channel partners for over 30 years to take our joint customers business further, faster\. With over 70% of the business coming through the channel, HPE has more than 50,000 partners in 123 countries\.

Product Owner \(Channel Data Management \- Partner Compensation\) at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Nov 2015 \- Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Led concept\-to\-launch of channel sales data management portfolio of products with cross\-functional teams of product owners, Scrum Masters, architects, engineers, UX/UI designers, & QA across India, Singapore, Romania, US, and China to create and manage programs for channel partners that incentivize sales and improve topline growth\. About Partner Compensation: HPE has been working with channel partners for over 30 years to take our joint customers business further, faster\. With over 70% of the business coming through the channel, HPE has more than 50,000 partners in 123 countries\.

## Education

Master of Business Administration \(MBA\), Strategy, Marketing, Analytics, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Applied Agentic AI Program, Interview Kickstart

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