Sabtain Khan

Group Product Manager

Experience

Group Product Manager

watsonx Assistant & Orchestrate — IBM

2023 → Present

I own the vision, strategy, and technical roadmap for IBM's AI assistant portfolio and manage 15+ product managers. Established voice partnerships with Deepgram and ElevenLabs.

Principal Product Manager

watsonx Assistant — IBM

2022 → 2023

Led 20 engineers and 4 designers on core authoring and algorithms. Cut enterprise time-to-live by 65% and shipped IBM's first generative AI feature inside an assistant.

Product Strategy Lead

Watson & Customer Care — IBM

2020 → 2021

Set market and roadmap strategy across Assistant, Discovery, and Speech. Lifted portfolio gross profit from under 30% to over 70% and established a Twilio Segment partnership for event streaming.

Lead Product Manager

Computer Vision — IBM Watson

2018 → 2020

Repositioned the product for industrial visual inspection, putting model training in the hands of quality engineers on the line. 10x revenue growth, 5x better margins.

Product Manager

Developer Experience — IBM Watson

2016 → 2018

Launched the Watson developer suite and seven SDKs that still carry over 90% of customer usage. Doubled API conversion and raised IBM Cloud sign-ups 50%.

Finance Lead

Watson Group — IBM

2012 → 2016

Managed a $1B budget through the founding years of IBM Watson — M&A, the Apple partnership, pricing, and lab expansion.

Education

Bachelor of Arts — Finance

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan

  • +1 810 610 1475
  • sabtain.a.khan@gmail.com
  • linkedin.com/in/sabtain
  • Brooklyn, New York

Impact

  • $20M → $80M ARR, 41% CAGR
  • 600% growth in SaaS signings
  • 100M+ monthly active users
  • Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader

Speaking

  • AI Ethics, Tech Duels
  • AI Panel, DMLA New York
  • AI Panel, KnowIt
  • Federated AI on Edge Devices
  • Product Management, U of Utah
  • US Open, VivaTech, CES
  • Data & AI judge, NYU

Skills

  • Product strategy
  • Roadmapping
  • Customer discovery
  • Pricing & packaging
  • Generative AI
  • Claude
  • GitHub
  • Figma
  • Amplitude
  • Segment
  • SQL
  • Python

Languages

English, Urdu, Pashto, Arabic