Varun Sehgal

CEO

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia17 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years in Product and Technical Program Management.
  • Led product initiatives in FinTech and B2C SaaS.
  • Expert in building high-performance teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Product Management leader in Fintech and B2C SaaS sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct Strategy

Other Skills

User ResearchGTM PlanningMonetization StrategyUser ExperienceData AnalyticsDigital BankingFinancial ServicesCoachingCurriculum DevelopmentUser GrowthOperational EfficiencyCustomer ExperienceRisk ManagementConsultingProgram Management

About

An extensive hands-on experience of 15+ years, building high performance teams and delivering stellar business outcomes in Product Management & Technical Program Management space, across the Consumer Internet landscape in Growth Stage Startups and MNCs alike, through strong partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders, CXOs/Executives and external vendors/partners. Working alongside some of the brightest minds in FinTech, Retail and B2C SaaS organizations, in addition to gathering the crucial domain knowledge, have come to learn a ton of important skills that have made all the difference. Some of these skills include: Discovery ♣ User Behavior Research ♣ Competitive Benchmarking ♣ User Interviews ♣ Focus Groups ♣ Usability Testing ♣ Data Analytics ♣ Hypothesis based A/B Testing Development (Agile) ♣ UX Design ♣ User Stories & Wireframing ♣ Backlog Management ♣ Managing Trade-offs ♣ Sprint & Release Planning Reporting ♣ Metrics Dashboarding ♣ Tools/Reporting & Analysis Technical ♣ System Design ♣ RESTful Microservices ♣ Web/App Interfaces Leadership ♣ Product Vision ♣ Product Strategy ♣ Stakeholder Management ♣ Team Development ♣ Operational Excellence ♣ Influencing ♣ Product Marketing Always game to talk about new products, play squash or cricket, or discuss photography!

Experience

Dyspach

Chief Product Officer

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Citro

Head of Product

Jul 2023Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Led B2C Product Management initiatives at Citro (an AMP corporate funded venture focused on improving life for Australians over 50).
  • » Shaped product strategy, roadmap and execution across content, rewards, and financial services pillars.
  • » Built, launched, and scaled Citro's rewards platform underpinned by Australia’s first PayTo-enabled Rewards Debit Card.
  • » Piloted card-less rewards experience in New Zealand to test international expansion.
  • » Empowered the team to leverage product analytics and user research to inform product enhancements, test growth hacks and double down on winners.
  • » Drove GTM planning, monetization strategy, and new product discovery in collaboration with executive leadership and the board.
Product ManagementProduct StrategyUser ResearchGTM PlanningMonetization Strategy

Finder

Principal Product Manager

Apr 2022Feb 2023 · 10 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Led B2C Product Management initiatives across Wallet and Personal Finance at Finder (Australia’s most visited Financial Comparison platform having 4Mn+ monthly visits and 400K+ app users)
  • » Credit Score and Chance of Approval: Increased monthly User Revenue from <90K to >150K by increasing the surface area for Comparisons and simplifying user journeys for Credit Score and Chance of Approval on the Finder App.
  • » Finder Earn: Scaled AUM by 300% to 21Mn+ b/w Jun-Oct’22 before shutting it down as a product due to unfavorable market conditions.
  • » Crypto Trading:
  • a. Increased the number of coins available for trading from 2 to 300+ to effect an increase in trading revenue by >35%.
  • b. Enhanced protection against loss making trades eating into spreads (margins) by integrating with Binance crypto-exchange and bringing USD crypto-pairs for better market depth.
  • c. Introduced run-time spread calculations and real-time crypto-exchange selection for each order to reduce volatility/risk.
  • » Login/Signup/KYC:
  • a. Improved User Activation by 11% by reducing the time spent by users on KYC for Finder Wallet & Credit Score by almost 27%.
  • b. Simplifying the Activation user journey by partnering with other product teams across Finder to enable Single Sign On (SSO).
Product ManagementUser ExperienceData AnalyticsProduct Strategy

Freecharge

Senior Director of Product Management

Jun 2018Jun 2022 · 4 yrs · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

  • Led Product Management initiatives in Consumer Financial Services vertical at Freecharge (FinTech arm of Axis Bank) that has 2.4Mn+ MAUs and 130K+ Merchants
  • Highlights:
  • » Neo-Bank: An open-API based digital banking platform with banking services, financial goals manager, financial health monitor, and an integrated rewards framework based on financial fitness
  • » Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL): Digital micro-lending product aimed at solving the problem of access to money for users
  • » Industry’s 1st fully digital platform for buying Mutual Funds (200+ Funds, 15+ AMCs & growing)
  • » Digital Gold: Enabled buying/selling of Digital Gold as an investment instrument
Product ManagementDigital BankingFinancial ServicesProduct Strategy

Upgrad.com

Advisor | Coach

Jan 2018Dec 2018 · 11 mos · India

  • » Created an engaging and immersive learning experience for UpGrad's customers (working professionals) by working as an SME for their online courses targeted at working professionals.
  • » Recognized and appreciated by 'UpGrad' for making a valuable contribution to the success of UpGrad's flagship program 'Post Graduate Diploma in Software Development'.
CoachingCurriculum Development

Zomato

Director of Product Management

Nov 2017Jun 2018 · 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Led Product Management initiatives for the Online Ordering unit at Zomato (India’s largest FoodTech platform) contributing to both User Growth and Operational Efficiency.
  • Highlights:
  • » User Growth: Contributed to increase in daily orders from 120K to 300K by introducing ecommerce inspired Combos & Bestsellers with Faster Checkout, Similar Restaurants, and Hygiene Ratings
  • » Operational Efficiency: 29% cost saving by introducing Driver Tracking, Order Queuing for Drivers, Pool-Order Delivery for Runnr (Zomato’s own fleet) Orders, and Tips on Runnr delivered orders
Product ManagementUser GrowthOperational Efficiency

Snapdeal

Associate Director

Apr 2015Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Led several new Product Management initiatives in Customer Experience and Risk & Fraud verticals at Snapdeal (India’s 3rd largest eCommerce marketplace)
  • Highlights:
  • » Reduced CPS from >30% to <10% by implementing market-leading & industry best-practice solns.
  • » Achieved industry-best Returns Experience ratings: 82% refunds in <48 hrs. & 89% CSAT score
  • » Mitigated Risk and Fraud by reducing and keeping the Monetary Loss across the Product Value Chain to <2% of Gross Merchandising Value
  • » Order Tracking System: Enabled step-by-step tracking from ‘placed’ to ‘delivered’ order states
  • » Communication Management System: Unified system for all E-Mails/SMS/App-Notifications
  • » Predictive Escalation Management: Reduced customer escalations by proactively catching exceptions (soft internal breaches) and automating alerts & actions to prevent SLA breaches
  • » Returns Experience Control Room: A total overhaul of systems, operations & processes associated with return-order journey – redefining & implementing SLAs, processes & auto-resolution controls
  • » Call Centre Upgrade: Implemented several IVR changes to ensure automated responses to queries, Automated scripts for Call Centre agents to address high freq. customer issues effectively in one go
  • » Risk & Fraud Control Tower: A system that gathers actionable intelligence, which is then fed into operational fraud-control processes – catching potential threats by assigning a fraud affinity score developed using clustering frameworks & adaptive machine learning algorithms
Product ManagementCustomer ExperienceRisk Management

Career launcher

Consultant

Jun 2012Jul 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Chandigarh Area, India

  • » Coached M.S./M.B.A./Law aspirants reach their full potential by helping them understand nuances of Quantitative Aptitude for various competitive examinations including CAT, GMAT, GRE, CLAT, etc.
  • » Taught basic and advanced concepts of Quantitative Aptitude, Data Intelligence, and Logical Reasoning to several batches of students in an open and constructive classroom-based-learning environment.
  • » Mentored students, helping augment various soft skills and personality traits, to give them a higher chance of cracking the admissions process at various educational institutes of repute.
CoachingQuantitative Aptitude

Infosys

Consultant

Jun 2010Apr 2015 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Chandigarh Area, India

  • Provided consulting and program management expertise for 14 Asia-Pacific subsidiaries of the Fortune-500 Pharma major.
  • Highlights:
  • » Implemented 100+ feature enhancements in total
  • » Established 3rd party interface setup worth CHF 1.08 Million
  • » Managed migration for 3000+ existing interfaces from FTP to sFTP worth USD 1.12 Million
  • » Implemented a solution for Sales Order Automation, Order Quantity Optimization and Back Order based Fulfillment between manufacturing plants and select warehouses of the AUS subsidiary
ConsultingProgram Management

Samsung india electronics ltd.

Software Engineer

Aug 2006May 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos · Noida Area, India

  • » Implemented a turnkey project ‘Gene Registry’ for Samsung’s own ‘Bada Operating System’, while working as a software engineer
  • » Enabled faster registry operations (create/search/delete registry keys) than Windows Registry
Software DevelopmentProject Management

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

MBA — Information Technology

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Punjab Engineering College

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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