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AI Product Manager · Toronto, Canada

Ajithkumar
Dhevarajan

Product manager with 10+ years building B2B & B2C products. I lead AI product roadmaps and feature prioritization with global cross-functional teams to ship user-first products.

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01 - About

Customer-focused, outcome-driven.

I build and ship products by pairing customer insight with measurable outcomes - currently at the intersection of generative AI and editorial. I work across engineering, data science, and executive stakeholders to take ideas from experimentation to safe production at global scale.

02 - Projects

Hobby projects

LexiMetrics AI

A model-agnostic machine translation evaluation platform. Compare translation engines side-by-side, score outputs with human-aligned metrics, and ship release-gated quality workflows from the built-in Quality Studio.

theleximetrics.com ↗

AI Assessed

Designed and launched an AI-driven interview practice platform that helps candidates prepare more effectively.

aiassessed.in ↗

03 - Press

Press & mentions

04 - Experience

Where I've worked

  1. Thomson Reuters

    2024 - Present

    Product Manager, News Production · Toronto

    • Lead AI product strategy for LEON, embedding conversational and agentic workflows (prompt engineering, RAG) - improving drafting, summarization, and translation for 2,000+ journalists.
    • Designed evaluation datasets and benchmarking frameworks for LLM accuracy, bias, and explainability, enabling data-driven model selection and safe deployment.
    • Partner with engineering and data science on agentic AI architecture, multi-step reasoning, and memory-aware context design.
    • Present AI strategy, trade-offs, and ROI to executives and newsroom stakeholders.
  2. Royal Bank of Canada

    2023 - 2024

    Product Manager, Data Management Office · Toronto

    • Managed a $5M+ product portfolio, leading data & analytics initiatives for RBC Investor Services.
    • Delivered executive scorecards that improved productivity, optimized capacity planning, and supported P&L performance.
    • Used hypothesis-driven product development to build an end-to-end product improving client acquisition and retention.
  3. The Hindu Group

    2021 - 2023

    Growth Product Manager, Subscriptions · Chennai

    • Managed a $1M+ revenue portfolio across B2B & B2C digital subscriptions.
    • Built and shipped the user-phases roadmap for the mobile apps; A/B testing drove a +23% digital engagement rate.
  4. Claylife Consultants

    2016 - 2018

    Consulting Manager · Chennai

    • Led the customer insights team; extracted 10% savings through resource optimization (Jira, Confluence).
    • Spearheaded the GTM strategy for client acquisition - 22% YoY growth.
  5. Infosys Limited

    2014 - 2016

    Systems Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Services · Bangalore

    • Converted real-time big data into business insights via a dashboard across 30+ categories.
    • Recognized as a high-potential performer; selected for the design thinking program (offered to <10% of employees).

05 - Skills

Toolkit

06 - Writing

Writing on LinkedIn

All articles on LinkedIn ↗

07 - Beyond work

The sky when I was born

A small thing I love: the night sky over Ooty, India on the day I was born. Drag to rotate it.

Ooty, India 11° 24′ 20″ N  ·  76° 42′ 01″ E 04 January 1993

08 - Education

Education & certification

09 - Contact

Let's talk.

If you'd like to chat about AI products, product strategy, or soccer, send a message my way.