About Sathyan
I help growth-stage companies and PE-backed firms build AI products that actually work in production — not just in demos.
Over 19 years at AT&T, Walmart, Lowe's, and Michelin, I led AI product strategy end-to-end: from identifying the right problems to deploying production-grade agentic systems at scale. I've covered $48.8M in customer revenue through converged AI product roadmaps, delivered 45% time savings for product teams through agentic tooling, and shipped 6 AI systems end-to-end using Pydantic AI, LangChain, and FastAPI.
I created the 5D Method — a lifecycle-complete framework for shipping AI products across five stages: Diagnose, Design, Develop, Detect, and Deploy. It's the same methodology I apply on every engagement, from a focused AI audit to a full fractional CPO retainer.
What I work on:
- AI product strategy and roadmap definition
- Agentic AI system design and evaluation frameworks
- LLM architecture review and production readiness
- Fractional CPO engagements for AI-native companies
- Digital transformation leadership for Fortune 500 and growth-stage firms
I work remotely, evenings and weekends EST, and take on a small number of high-impact engagements at a time.
Published work and portfolio: sathyan.ai
English
Native or bilingual
Hindi
Native or bilingual
Tamil
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- AT&TProduct Leader – TransformationsJune 2024 - Today (2 years)Marietta, GA, USALed AI transformation strategy for the Product Management organization, designing Agentic AI tools and defining multi-year converged services roadmaps across Wireless, Fiber, and AIA business units.• • Designed and presented Agentic AI strategy for Epic/Feature creation tool, demonstrating 45% time savings to PM leadership; driving adoption across 15+ Product Managers• • Built business case for Agentic Solution Architecture tool — 25% architect productivity improvement• • Led solution design for AI Process Flow creator — 40% PM productivity increase• • Defined multi-year converged services roadmap for Wireless/Fiber/AIA — $48.8M in impacted account revenue across 3-year horizon• • Created transformation roadmaps impacting $20M+ retail channel revenue, 10M wireless/fiber customers, and 12M fraud/compliance customers• • Defined functional roadmap for myATT App impacting 10M customers• • Led Order Amend Strategy reducing order cancellation by 15%
- AT&TGroup Product ManagerAugust 2021 - June 2024 (2 years and 10 months)Led a 22-person product organization (managers + ICs) across Cart, Checkout, and Order Processing —managing the full digital commercejourney for one of the largest telecomproviders in the US.• • Led Gigapower national expansion from 21 to 48 states, enabling 1.5M potential new customers — coordinated across multiple geographies through joint venture partnership• • Drove $7M savings through SaaS commerce platform enabling partner domains to build on-demand carts• • AT&T Leadership Award for innovative cross-domain planning process across multiple business units
- Publicis SapientHead of ProductMarch 2015 - August 2021 (6 years and 5 months)Marietta, GA, USAClient-facing consulting role defining strategy, building business cases, and presenting digital solutions to Fortune 500 retail and consumer goods clients. Led cross-functional delivery teams across multiple concurrent client engagements.Lowes:• • Built and presented $68M business case for marketing platform modernization — secured multi-year investment commitment• • Led GCP migration of product pages from legacy WebSphere — +5% Add-to-Cart, $5.6M revenue lift• • Designed peak readiness solution for Thanksgiving/Cyber Monday — +39% revenue YoY, +51 % cart additions, 300M hits handled• • Created price unification strategy resolving cross-channel pricing inconsistencies — +5% QoQ Add-to-CartSunbelt Rentals• • Led CX research, focus groups, and competitor assessment to define B2B mobile app migration roadmap — positioning technology platform strategy to client leadershipMichelin (French multinational, Clermont-Ferrand HQ)• • Conducted customer interviews and brand strategy sessions to define vision, target segments, and digital roadmap for two tire brands — presenting recommendations to brand leadership
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Education
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)Symbiosis Institute of Business ManagementMaster of Business Administration (MBA)
- Bachelor of Engineering (BE)Sathyabama College of EngineeringBachelor of Engineering (BE)