Gautham Varma

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product development for 65 online courses.
  • Achieved 20X user growth in online education.
  • Increased course completion rates significantly.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in EdTech and Fintech sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct Development

Other Skills

Agile FrameworksBusiness DevelopmentDecision MakingLeadershipMarket ResearchMarketing StrategyMicrosoft ExcelNegotiationProblem ManagementProblem SolvingProduct MarketingStakeholder ManagementStartup DevelopmentStrategic PlanningTeam Management

Experience

Phonepe

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Razorpay

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Associate Director, Product Management

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Oct 2022Oct 2023 · 1 yr

Senior Product Manager

May 2021Oct 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • NoCode Apps

Head digital works pvt ltd.

2 roles

Senior Product Manager

Apr 2020May 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Cricket.com | Ace2three

Product Manager

May 2017Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Twenty19.com

Product Manager: Online Courses

Jun 2014Apr 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Chennai Area

  • Product Development
  • Ideated product features/priority, enabled stakeholder buy in and drove launch activities for online courses business
  • Built a suite of 65 online courses in domains of software development, marketing, data analytics and designing
  • Facilitated online learning to 40,000 students across India over span of 2 years including several first time adopters
  • Collaborated with a team of 5 developers and designers to manage timelines, development & release
  • Used wire framing techniques and agile frameworks to launch features: dashboards, learning management system
  • Achieved an increase in completion rate of online courses from 15% to 40% (industry standard: 25%)
  • Attained an increase in customer satisfaction – 90% of users gave the courses an average 4+ rating on 5
  • Created and iterated process documents using best practices to standardize the content creation
  • Reduced the turnaround time in building of courses ~ 45 days to 30 days by creating a process to identify right fit experts
  • Growth Initiatives
  • Accomplished customer growth of ~ 20X – 2000 to 40,000 users for the courses division
  • Pitched, negotiated and partnered with 50+ industry experts working against market dynamics for content creation
  • Conceptualized and implemented a marketing strategy to offer bundled services leading to increase in revenues
  • Developed and ran a social media campaign “#Hungrytolearn” with Foodpanda to generate 6,000 user signups in 10 days
Product DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementAgile FrameworksMarketing StrategyProduct Management

Cognizant technology solutions

Senior Systems Executive

Dec 2012Jun 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Chennai Area

  • Worked with multiple clients in the IT Infrastructure domain to analyze and rectify network incidents at 1000+ locations
  • Reduced the turnaround time for incidents by 20% for the entire project
  • Monitored and analysed network data to predict and mitigate network failures using SQL and PLSQL
  • Delivered the best practices in incident and change management – helped retain the largest retail client for Cognizant

Education

Indian School of Business

Post Graduate Programme in Mangement

Jan 2016Jan 2017

Anna University Chennai

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Nungambakkam, Chennai

Jan 1994Jan 2008

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