About Arslan Qadri

AI Product Manager at Verizon · New Jersey / New York metro · 13+ years in data science, ML and product

Arslan Qadri is an AI Product Manager at Verizon who has spent more than thirteen years turning machine learning into products that move business numbers. He started as a data engineer at Infosys, became a data scientist and then principal data scientist at Verizon, and now leads AI product work for Verizon's sales and customer-engagement systems. Outside work he ships his own AI tools, publishes a daily AI briefing, and writes about applied AI on Substack.

At a glance

• RoleAI Product Manager (AI Solutions Specialist), Verizon
• Based inNew Jersey, United States (NYC metro)
• FocusGenerative AI, LLM evaluation, lead management, predictive marketing
• EducationMBA (UIUC) · MS Analytics (Stevens) · B.Tech CS (NMIMS)
• BuildsToday in AI · Voice Mirror · MarketSignal
• Writes atSubstack · LinkedIn

Career timeline

• 2022 – present · Verizon, Basking Ridge, NJ
  AI Product Manager / AI Solutions Specialist

  Owns the AI roadmap for sales and service engagement. Built the measurement layer for Verizon's agentic chatbots, including an LLM-as-a-judge pipeline that classifies why conversations escalate; led the omnichannel lead prioritization and routing framework (Phase 2 inter-store reassignment delivered roughly $10M in incremental benefit); shipped Call Transcript and Abandoned Browse lead products that add thousands of high-intent leads per day; and partnered with McKinsey to tie retention and propensity models to live campaign results.

• 2019 – 2022 · Verizon
  Principal Data Scientist, Consumer Marketing

  Embedded data scientist for product marketing: market sizing, promo-impact modeling and campaign measurement behind launches such as justKids and Mobile Mix and Match; built Python pipelines for competitive intelligence and business-anomaly detection; delivered retail digital-twin simulations for store staffing.

• 2017 – 2019 · Verizon
  Data Scientist, CRM and Retention

  Built a churn forecasting and alerting system across 102 region × carrier × device segments using XGBoost and Random Forest, plus explainable churn segmentation that maps straight to retention offers.

• 2011 – 2015 · Infosys, Mangalore, India
  Senior Systems Engineer (Data Engineering)

  Designed UNIX and PL/SQL ETL and automation for retail clients including Gap, Vodafone and JCPenney, feeding Oracle Retail merchandising and sales-prediction systems.

• 2010 · Kashmir, India
  Founder, Kashmir Art Quest

  Founded Kashmir's first formal art organization, building the team and events that put regional artists on national and international stages.

Education

• MBA, Marketing and Strategy — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024)
• MS, Business Intelligence and Analytics — Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (2016)
• B.Tech, Computer Science — Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai (2011)

What he builds on qads.us

Today in AI

A daily AI news briefing that ingests 100+ newsletters, podcasts and papers, curates the signal, and auto-publishes every morning to the web, Instagram (@todayinaii), LinkedIn and a WhatsApp channel.

Voice Mirror

A privacy-first iOS speech-coaching app. Everything runs on-device with open-source models: nine vocal metrics, real-time feedback on pitch, pace and clarity, and an agentic coaching flow.

MarketSignal

An AI competitive-intelligence dashboard for wireless-carrier strategy teams: promotions, pricing moves and market narrative, summarized by an agent.

Portfolio graph and this site

An interactive knowledge graph of career hubs, skills and projects backed by GraphRAG, plus the portfolio chatbot on the home page that answers questions about his work. The resume is available as a page and as a PDF.

Elsewhere

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