Sushma Sowmya Devarajan

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Chief Product Officer, Ivory Logistics - ML · user research · prompt design

Ivory Logistics
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
9+ years experience
XLRI Jamshedpur
English, Hindi, Tamil
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I've spent 18 years on AI features - first at Qualcomm, now at Ivory Logistics. Cut time-to-first-value for new AI products customers from 10 days to 3. I host a monthly meetup on AI features.

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Skills
user researchLLM productsprompt designMLevaluation
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Hiring a founding senior pm for the AI products team - Chennai or remote

Role
Founding senior pm
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
₹30-60 LPA
Team
AI products, 7 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with evaluation Production experience with prompt design Ownership of something end to end
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp ₹36-46 LPA. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Chief Product Officer
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Ivory Logistics · 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Took AI products activation from 28% to 37% in three quarters.
    • Ran 71 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  2. Senior Product Manager
    Jul 2024 - Jan 2026
    Visa · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Took AI products activation from 31% to 38% in three quarters.
    • Launched the AI products product in 4 markets.
  3. Product Manager
    Aug 2021 - Jul 2024
    JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Killed 8 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new AI products customers from 15 days to 2.
  4. Principal Product Manager
    Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
    HCLTech · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Led or co-led 18 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
  5. Senior Product Manager
    Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
    Qualcomm · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app
2026

Built with evaluation and prompt design. 2825 people used it last year.

Conference talk: lessons from AI products
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling AI features.

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Education

  1. XLRI Jamshedpur
    MBA, Business Administration
    2011 - 2013
  2. Srishti Manipal Institute
    B.Des, Computer Science
    2003 - 2007

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