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Conversational AI · Product Manager

Arshad Abbas
Shahabuddin

Conversational AI Product Manager with 3+ years driving voice AI infrastructure at scale. Currently owning the HelloJio Voice Assistant at Jio Platforms — 550M monthly interactions, 12 Indian languages, 480+ integrated applications.

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Platform Metrics

HelloJio · Jio Platforms
mo

550M

Voice Interactions

Monthly peak across HelloJio platform

drop

40%

Error Rate Reduction

ASR + NLP pipeline tuning, 12 Indian languages

lift

28%

CSAT Improvement

+0.83 pts via voice personalization rollout

lift

17%

Native-Language Engagement

Multilingual voice feature adoption

apps

480+

Integrated Applications

HelloJio assistant ecosystem coverage

langs

12

Indian Languages

ASR/NLP support across regional dialects

Live Demo

Voice AI Platform

Interactive showcase of Cartesia API integration — real-time ASR via Ink turns WebSocket, Sonic 3.5 TTS with dynamic voice/speed/volume controls, and voice agent provisioning.

Cartesia InkSonic 3.5AudioWorkletWebSocket STTEnglish + Hindi

Experience

Current

Product Manager — HelloJio Voice Assistant

Jio Platforms LimitedJune 2023 – PresentBengaluru, India
  • Directed the end-to-end lifecycle for B2C conversational AI products utilizing LLM and BERT architectures, handling 550M monthly interactions across 12 languages.
  • Achieved a 28% increase in CSAT and a 17% boost in native-language engagement by optimizing conversational flows and content discovery across 480+ applications.
  • Deployed LLM-driven contextual search and multi-turn conversational capabilities, significantly improving first-pass resolution rates and establishing robust data feedback loops.
  • Drove a 40% reduction in system errors through rigorous user behavior analysis, iteration planning, and real-time dashboard telemetry to ensure stable version deployments.
  • Orchestrated alignment between engineering, design, and executive teams to scale in-house ASR, NLP, and NLG models while accelerating feature deployment.
ASRNLPVoice AIAI AgentsProduct RoadmapAgileAzureMultilingual

Software Development Engineer Intern

SprihMay 2022 – July 2022Pune, India
  • Worked with a team of talented developers and start-up founders to develop ideas, learn about building companies rom the ground up, and the setup required for the same. Helped build the microservice architecture that became their Carbon Management Platform.
PythonREST APIsSQLReactTypeScript

Education

IIIT Delhi — Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology

B.Tech · Computer Science + Design

2019 – 2023 · New Delhi, India

IIITDCS + DesignHuman-Computer Interaction

Technical Stack

AI / Voice
ASR SystemsNLPBERTLLM PromptingVoice AIConversational AICartesia InkCartesia Sonic
Engineering
PythonSQLJavaTypeScriptREST APIsWebSocketsAudioWorklet API
Infrastructure
AzureCloud ArchitectureCI/CDAPI Integration
Product
Agile / JIRARoadmappingUser ResearchA/B TestingKPI Frameworks
Design
FigmaAdobe XDPrototyping
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Arshad Abbas Shahabuddin · Conversational AI Product Manager