SUBBU KUPPAHALLI
Cottage Grove
Summary
Strategic Principal Product Leader with 20 years of experience delivering end-to-end AI-powered product experiences and enterprise digital transformations within complex, regulated environments. Expert at interpreting customer problems to build cohesive roadmaps for 0-to-1 product launches, including an API Marketplace that reduced development time by 33%. Currently championing AI-based prototyping and AI-first problem-solving at Ford, successfully cutting development cycles by 50% through rapid iteration and LLM integration. Proven ability to lead distributed cross-functional teams, ensuring responsible AI governance and the delivery of trusted, insight-driven data solutions that have generated up to $70 million in business value.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Principal Product Manager
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
02.2024 - Current
- AI Champion & Rapid Prototyping: Champion AI-based prototyping using Figma AI and LLMs to drive rapid development across multiple initiatives, successfully cutting the design-to-delivery cycle by 50%.
- Product Management: Define product roadmap, requirements, backlog, and product lifecycle from concept through launch and iteration phases.
- Customer Advocacy: Conducted user interviews to identify needs and pain points, informing product enhancements.
- AI for Problem Solving: Driving AI-first problem-solving initiatives across cross-functional teams, leveraging LLMs (Gemini, Llama, ChatGPT) to maximize developer productivity and operational efficiency.
- Strategic AI Integration: Leading the product ideation and launch of a GCP-based Vehicle Power Management application launching analysis and AI capabilities, driving $100M in battery warranty cost savings annually.
- Ecosystem Implementation: Launching internal platform and driving implementation for a 3rd party hardware testing and analytics suite for Ford Canada.
- Portfolio Management: Managed $3.9M 3rd party application portfolio, realizing 12% reduction in maintenance costs for 2025.
Principal Product Manager, AI/ML
OPTUM TECHNOLOGY (UnitedHealth Group)
04.2022 - 05.2023
- High-Value AI Delivery: Led the full lifecycle for a data analytics platform and six digital products integrating Graph and Generative AI, delivering $70M in business value.
- Executive Strategy: Presented product strategy, roadmaps, and performance reviews quarterly to VPs and C-level executives to secure critical buy-in.
- Data Science Enablement: Built a central research platform that enabled 1,000+ Data Scientists to integrate ML tools with platform data to accelerate R&D.
Principal Product Manager, API Marketplace
OPTUM TECHNOLOGY
04.2021 - 04.2022
- Open Ecosystem Architecture: Drove the discovery and development of a centralized API library (API Marketplace) that reduced API development time by 33%, enabling digital transformation at scale.
- Trusted Data Services: Defined the product strategy for core ingestion, quality, and transformation services within the Healthcare Data Platform ecosystem.
Senior Product Manager, Data Governance
OPTUM DATA OFFICE
09.2020 - 04.2021
- Efficiency & Tool Selection: Led a vendor evaluation committee to select a web-based Centralized Data Catalog tool, improving data discovery efficiency by 25%.
Product Manager
Optum Technology
01.2005 - 01.2020
- Led the end-to-end development of an enterprise Data Lake from ideation to launch (0 to 1), integrating data from 54 strategic sources.
Business / Data Analyst
Multiple Clients
01.2005 - 01.2020
- Defined functional requirements and UX design for digital transformation and system optimization projects at Hallmark, Ameriprise Financial, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Education
Bachelors - Computer Science
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, MI05-2005
Skills
- Generative AI strategy
- AI-led problem solving
- Responsible AI governance
- Agentic AI development
- Predictive analytics
- Product lifecycle management
- Cohesive roadmapping
- Product discovery
- Portfolio management
- Cloud platform development
- Enterprise data ecosystems
- API architecture
- Data governance
- AI-assisted prototyping
- Figma AI integration
- Design-to-code acceleration
- Rapid iteration
Certification
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance, 2018
Technical Tools
- AI/ML: Figma Make AI, GitHub Copilot, Rovo AI, LLMs (Gemini, ChatGPT, Llama).
- Cloud & Data: Google Cloud (GCP), AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, API/GraphQL.
- Product/Agile: AHA, Jira, Rally, Miro, Figma.
Timeline
Principal Product Manager
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
02.2024 - Current
Principal Product Manager, AI/ML
OPTUM TECHNOLOGY (UnitedHealth Group)
04.2022 - 05.2023
Principal Product Manager, API Marketplace
OPTUM TECHNOLOGY
04.2021 - 04.2022
Senior Product Manager, Data Governance
OPTUM DATA OFFICE
09.2020 - 04.2021
Product Manager
Optum Technology
01.2005 - 01.2020
Business / Data Analyst
Multiple Clients
01.2005 - 01.2020
Bachelors - Computer Science
Michigan Technological University