Arijit Sarkar Email & Phone Number

United States

I was internally scouted to the role of Engineering Product Manager for Mobility and the Internet of Things to lead the development of telco product roadmaps for Tier 1 providers and negotiate contracts for renewal by defining long-term visions.Select Results:◆ PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Increased the feature velocity cadence by 33% by strengthening the development team in India after the contract renewal to enable new business cases quicker.◆ CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS: Secured… Show more I was internally scouted to the role of Engineering Product Manager for Mobility and the Internet of Things to lead the development of telco product roadmaps for Tier 1 providers and negotiate contracts for renewal by defining long-term visions.Select Results:◆ PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Increased the feature velocity cadence by 33% by strengthening the development team in India after the contract renewal to enable new business cases quicker.◆ CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS: Secured multi-million-dollar IoT contract renewal as key negotiator behind renewing and extending 30-60 month contract renewals with Cisco largest North American 5G client.◆ NEW BUSINESS SEGMENTS AND CHANNELS: Jumpstarted new multi-million-dollar potential business opportunity with a Japanese enterprise.◆ CUSTOMER SATISFACTION: Collaboratively road-mapped a Tier-1 enterprise customer’s post-2024 strategic product plan, flexibly meeting their business priorities and specific pain points.◆ STAKEHOLDER ALIGNMENT: Championed hundreds of thousands in cost-savings and the value proposition of a proprietary low-carbon footprint solution to reduce Cisco’s power consumption for stakeholder sustainability alignment. Show less

United States

I was tapped to direct outbound product management as the Customer Delivery Engineering Technical Leader, supporting Dish Wireless by building a diverse global team working in the US, Mexico, and India and managing customer expectations. I was doubly promoted to the Leader, Customer Delivery, with changing grade and designation. I was responsible for leading the outbound product solutions management for Tier 1 providers and negotiating contracts for renewal by defining long-term visions. I… Show more I was tapped to direct outbound product management as the Customer Delivery Engineering Technical Leader, supporting Dish Wireless by building a diverse global team working in the US, Mexico, and India and managing customer expectations. I was doubly promoted to the Leader, Customer Delivery, with changing grade and designation. I was responsible for leading the outbound product solutions management for Tier 1 providers and negotiating contracts for renewal by defining long-term visions. I managed 23 indirect program reports across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and India.Awards: ◆ 2023 “Best of We” Award for an AI and ML-based automation solution◆ 2023 Asia-Pacific Stevie Gold Award for Innovative Use of Technology in Customer Service for Dish CX Automation ProgramSelect Results:◆ AI PRODUCT SOLUTIONS: Won Cisco’s “Best of We” Award for developing Dish’s AI/ML-based automation solution that saved hundreds of millions of dollars and passed FCC regulations 2 weeks before deadlines.◆ FUTURE-FOCUSED LEADERSHIP: Proactively prepared teams for current AI-driven Large Language Model era by mapping enterprise engagements centered around integrating AI and ML models into strategies, establishing a robust foundation for rapid adoption.◆ OPTIMIZATION & EFFICIENCY: Improved issues caught to 90% and reduced time to market from 3 months to 2-3 days with 100% on-time delivery and within budget in the launch of new SaaS software.◆ WORLD’S-FIRST INNOVATIONS: Deployed the world’s first 5G cloud-native networks at scale in US using OSS automation, ultimately securing a multi-million-dollar business with Dish Wireless.◆ CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAM LEADERSHIP: Ranked at high +90% in leadership by employees for transparency and advocacy in workforce development. Show less

Americas And India

I led the outbound product solution management and established business contracts as the Project Manager and Mobility Head consulting through CSS Corp/Glow Networks while directing a massive telco infrastructure modernization.Select Results:◆ AI EVANGELIST: Signed multi-year multi-million-dollar deals with two converted and enthusiastic major service providers after successfully evangelizing a 5G and AIOps marketing campaign in North America.◆ NEW BUSINESS & VISION: Created new… Show more I led the outbound product solution management and established business contracts as the Project Manager and Mobility Head consulting through CSS Corp/Glow Networks while directing a massive telco infrastructure modernization.Select Results:◆ AI EVANGELIST: Signed multi-year multi-million-dollar deals with two converted and enthusiastic major service providers after successfully evangelizing a 5G and AIOps marketing campaign in North America.◆ NEW BUSINESS & VISION: Created new multi-million-dollar stream of business and reduced mean time between failure by 50% leading the AIOps / MLOPs product vision.◆ CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS: Closed multi-million to tens-of-millions-dollar enterprise business contracts presenting Scope of Work business contracts to C-Suite leaders in the US, Canada, and Mexico.◆ INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION: Generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue year-over-year by architecting AT&T Mexico’s 4G and IoT network infrastructure modernization Show less

Us, And India

I created Go-to-Market Solutions for AT&T as a solution integration architect and led US infrastructure modernization by modernizing AT&T US’s nationwide mobile 4G network with cross-functional teams.

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

I collaborated with external and internal stakeholders to demonstrate and deploy Nokia’s 3GPP R4 telecom solutions for Oi, a service provider in Brazil.

India, Germany, & United Kingdom

◆ PRODUCT MANAGEMENT: I launched Starent’s 3G SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node) from ground up to create a second revenue stream, becoming the #1 3G SGSN in 2009.

Gurugram, Haryana, India

I led the 3GPP Release 4 demonstration to India’s wireless service providers in collaboration with global cross-functional teams.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

I was awarded STAR of VSNL & Six Sigma Green Belt for improving voice quality of service and promoting low-cost voice and fax traffic routes.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Electronics And Communication Engineering

Activities and Societies: Student-Chairperson of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Chapter at the NIT Warangal.