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Akshay Kannan

@akshaykannan

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I build AI-powered B2B sales products that improve activation, retention, and revenue.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead product strategy for B2B SaaS, sales technology, AI, and growth products, partnering closely with GTM, engineering, executives, and customers to improve adoption, retention, and revenue.

At Klenty, I helped build and scale a sales engagement platform used by more than 3,000 customers, starting as the company’s first product hire. I lead product strategy across sales calling, AI-assisted workflows, integrations, and activation.

I’ve improved dialer connect rates by up to 5x, doubled sales conversations, increased manager usage by up to 3x, and built an AI Sales Agent executing nearly 10,000 daily outreach activities. I work closely with the CEO, engineering, GTM teams, and customers to turn business opportunities into product priorities.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Product Manager

Current

Klenty

Oct 2022 - Present (3 years 11 months)

Lead a four-member product team across discovery, prioritisation and execution, working closely with engineering and GTM teams to drive growth, adoption and retention. Improved core calling workflow, built call intelligence and coaching workflows, and redesigned onboarding to increase activation to 85%.

Product Strategy Product Discovery Roadmap Prioritization AI Product Development LLM workflows CRM Integration REST APIs Webhooks OAuth Jira Mixpanel Kibana Claude ChatGpt

Product Manager

Klenty

Oct 2018 - Sep 2022 (3 years 11 months)

Owned the roadmap for core sales engagement workflows within a product generating more than $1M in ARR, using customer research and usage data to guide priorities. Built and managed integrations with major CRMs, launched Prospect IQ and Playbook, contributing to customer acquisition and revenue growth.