About

Kartik Kannan is a seasoned Head of Product and Data Science with over 15 years of experience in the field. Currently, he is the Principal Product Manager and first hire at cricket.com, where he leads a team of 20 professionals in Product, Design, Data Science, Editorial, and Vendor Relations. Kartik has been instrumental in building cricket.com's first trademarked ML product, Criclytics, which presents stats in a new form. He is now focused on building Criclytics deeper and has a detailed user research program to maximize consumer adoption in the second screen experience for cricket fans. Kartik is a mentor to a team of 2 Product Managers, 5 Data Scientists, 10 Writers, 2 User Analytics professionals, and 2 Designers, and Cricket Operations Back End. He has experience in Product Roadmap Creation, Product User Journey Mapping, Working with Design and Data Science to create interactions, Working with Branding/Marketing to communicate Product features, and talking points for advertisement script writing. He has also worked with Data Science to refine models and built new feature sets like "Who is winning," "Death Over Simulator," and "Play Offs Projector." Kartik has worked with external vendors and driven vendor relationships. He has also worked with Design on User Research to keep updating user personas and with User Analytics Team to record user events that need to be tracked. He is currently working on filling key mid-management and leadership positions for other units. Kartik's past experience includes working as a Lead Product Manager at Thoughtworks, where he consulted clients across different categories and led consulting work in domains like Roadmap aligning with Vision, Product Feature and Roadmap prioritization, Re-Writing User Stories, and using better interaction design to abstract the right problem and solution fit. He has also worked as a Senior Product Manager at Disney, managing the gaming portfolio for ESPNCricinfo. Kartik holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Madras. He has also completed his AISSCE from Bala Vidya Mandir. Kartik's tech stack includes Product Manager, Data Scientist, Research Scientist, ML, Designer, P2P, and Backend.