Building Products That Actually Matter.

Sixteen years of product and innovation leadership, eleven inside a multi-industry consultancy and five owning AI-driven product delivery. Today I lead loyalty and growth product at Al Jazeera Media Network, building AI-enabled experiences that engage and retain a multi-million reader audience in English and Arabic.

Ahmad Al-Karmi

Ahmad Al-Karmi

Senior Product & Innovation Leader

Kuwait City • Doha (bi-monthly)
info@ahmadkarmi.com

MBA with Distinction

Boston University

3.68 GPA

Bilingual Executive

Native Fluency

English & Arabic

Professional Journey

Al Jazeera Media Network

July 2025 - Present
Senior Product Manager, Loyalty & Growth Products

Owns AI-enabled loyalty, retention and growth across a multi-million reader portfolio in English and Arabic. Scope spans the AI delivery framework now used across product, design and engineering; an AI-personalisation layer over the editorial notification stack on GCP; bilingual content taxonomy as product-owned data architecture; and the Follow Topic experience on native mobile. Reports to the Head of Product Management & Digital.

UULA Technologies

August 2023 - July 2025
Product Manager

Led product across an ed-tech platform serving teachers and students, owning delivery, sprint architecture and technical decision-making for a cross-functional team of engineers and designers. Shipped AI-powered teacher workflow tooling, a redesigned search experience built on custom ranking, and learning features focused on retention.

Bleems

May 2021 - June 2023
Head of Product Management

Founded the product management function as the first product hire at an e-commerce business. Built the agile rituals, governance and cross-functional architecture from zero, owned the AI-driven personalisation and merchandising layer across the shopping surface, and ran an executive-agreed roadmap with quarterly value reviews to the C-suite. Designed and launched the customer loyalty program.

MEDCOMM Consulting Group

March 2010 - May 2021
Chief Innovation Officer

Eleven-year tenure at a boutique consultancy, rising to Chief Innovation Officer running enterprise IT system design, architecture and vendor management across an eight-industry portfolio including telecom, finance, education, energy and public sector. Conceived and launched Zain eSports end-to-end as their consultant, led the AOU Riyadh campus IT redesign, and built the internal project management software and RFP framework still used across the practice.

Core Capabilities

AI Platforms & Architecture

GenAI & Agentic AI Reference Architecture & Integration AI Delivery Frameworks (Claude Code) Prototyping (Windsurf) MLOps Awareness

Cloud, Data & Engineering

GCP AWS & Azure familiarity Data Architecture React React Native Supabase

Vendor & Governance

Vendor Partnerships Commercial Negotiation C-suite Engagement Roadmap & Portfolio Strategy Cross-functional Team Leadership

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