Jun 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Varun leads consumer apps vertical for Digital Team as part of Leadership. He is responsible for:
• Strategising integration, solution and GTM for consumer and super app approach.
• Building and driving Product Roadmap which includes revenue models and journeys.
• Building strategies, sourcing, budget planning and Business case approval process.
• Controlling changes and highlighting risks.
• Communication to stakeholders including CXO's.
• E2E Solution and Architecture review.
• Implementation of best practices and improvement programs.
• Understanding and representing user needs.
• Monitoring the market and developing competitive analyses.
• Defining a vision for a product.
• Aligning stakeholders around the vision for the product.
• Prioritising product features and capabilities.
• Running programs
• Developing product team

Oct 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

• As a Digital Transformation Lead, Varun is responsible for:
• Prioritizes features by ranking them against the strategic goals and initiatives.
• Setting up strategy for creating world class agile team. Create product life cycle and backlog for new features.
• Bridging gaps between different functions within the company and aligning all of the teams involved namely marketing, sales, and customer support.
• Articulate the business value to the product team so they understand the intent behind the new product release.
• Responsible for defining the release process and coordinating all of the activities required to bring the product to market.
• Developed Go To Market strategy to have minimum customer drop offs.
• Introduced DevOps and Testing Automation which saved 94% time of deployment and testing cycle.
• Increased TNPS and ratings by 40% and Reduced Production issues and crashes to 99.95%.
• Digitally Transformed journeys which were manual. Handled 2 major apps in parallel for delivery and introduced best practices.

Oct 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Working in a role of Product and Program Manager for the “My Idea” mobile app. Have been instrumental in the conception, solution design, UI/UX design and continuous evolution of the mobile application. Have played the key role in multiple vendor integrations related to payments, legacy systems etc. Was the instrumental player for raising the ratings from 4.0 to 4.4 for Playstore and 4.3 to 4.8 in Apple store.

Jun 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Varun is working as a Product Manager. Roles and responsibilities which Varun handles are:
• Understand the Problem statement and its Domain
• Market Research with the help Primary and Secondary research techniques.
• List down all Product Features and figure out the MVP
• Creating Roadmap and Priority list of features.
• Maintaining a healthy Product Backlog
• Product Management
• Understanding technical challenges and try to overcome them.
• Making sure of capturing each data point.

Nov 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Varun was working here as Business Analyst and his roles and responsibilities were :
• Requirements Gathering and Elicitation
• Client Communication
• Team Management
• Project Management
• Product Defination
• Product Management
• Risk Analysis
• Gap Analysis
• Process building
• Delivery
• Consulting
• Have experience on working with technologies like RoR, JavaScript, Anglar JS, Node JS, PHP and Java. Also worked on GIS and Jenkins tools.
• Sound knowledge of tools like JIRA, MS-Office, Basecamp, Google Docs, Agile Methodologies, Scrum Ceremonies, Sprint Planning and Executions.

Dec 2012 – Jul 2013 · 7 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Role: Solutions Specialist
• Based on the requirement of the clients, be it the Corporates or High Profile Service based businesses Varun designed Learning and Development Solutions to cater the needs of different Domains. Addition to this he conducted Product Demos with VP's, CXO's and President's of the company's.
• Varun was involved right from the initial Client Meetings and even at times setting the meetings himself. The first requirement draft is created over the meetings. Varun was also involved in the proposal creation and taking Financial Decisions as well. Post this the entire process till delivery was handles by Varun himself.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• Requirements Gathering
• Consulting and Solutions
• Product Demo
• Project Management
• Delivery and Maintenance

Jan 2011 – Apr 2011 · 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Varun technically supported Microsoft Windows XP, 2000 and 7 customers in the USA region. He helped them in removing malicious programs and viruses. He also helped them in installing windows and removing every type of errors and glitches which appears in their system.