Varun Arora

CEO

India15 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product management for fintech innovations.
  • Expert in fraud management and risk assessment.
  • Proven track record in launching scalable products.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Management expert with a strong focus on fraud prevention and growth strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementBusiness StrategyProject ManagementDesign Engineering

Other Skills

FintechGrowth HackerFraud & RiskFinancial ServicesPaymentsEcommerceFraud ManagementMobile Platform StrategyData AnalyticsMicroprocessor DesignBenchmarkingComputer ArchitectureDebuggingCC++

Experience

15 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Makemytrip

Vice President - Product Management

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

Product Management

Google

Manager - Trust & Safety Google Shopping

Aug 2019Jan 2020 · 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Freecharge

Director - Product management - Growth, Payments

Dec 2015Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Fintech | Growth Hacker | Fraud & Risk | Financial Services | Payments, Ecommerce
  • Head - Growth, Transit, Fraud & Risk, User Onboarding
  • Responsible for creating/driving product roadmap and contributing to business strategy
  • Responsible for growth of core businesses i.e. Recharges, Merchants, Deals, Unified Payments Interface (BHIM UPI)
  • Responsible for retention products i.e. PayLater, Reminders, Deals, Coupons
  • Experienced in launching complex and highly scalable products from scratch i.e. Merchant Tokenization, Fraud Management System, Wallet, Identity Management System,
FintechGrowth HackerFraud & RiskFinancial ServicesPaymentsEcommerce+2

Snapdeal

Product Management - Payments, User Onboarding and Management

Apr 2015Nov 2015 · 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Responsible for creating the fastest 1-click checkout/payment solution across Snapdeal group of companies (Snapdeal, FreeCharge, Shopo, Exclusively)
  • Responsible for single login/sign-up experience across Snapdeal group of companies

Ge

2 roles

ITLP

Jun 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Mobile Platform Strategy, Product Manager, GE Capital-SBI Cards JV
  • Business Strategy: Conceptualized mobile platform strategy for board approval
  • Vendor Engagement: Engaged vendors to implement channel agnostic business logic layer, mobile apps
  • Execution Roadmap: Tracked & executed project plan to increase customer reach & drive down cost
  • Process Design: Developed process maps for easy implementation of complex credit card business process
  • Data warehouse implementation for Siebel CRM, Project Manager, GE Capital-SBI Joint Venture
  • Project Management: Led a team of six for datawarehouse implementation of Financial services Siebel CRM
  • Process Simplification: Simplified backend design to reduce data exchange processes by 85%
  • Stakeholder Management: Led business process design, with multiple App owners, to timely completion
  • Project Execution: Delivered zero defect CRM basic customer foundation design, cutover & production support
  • Vendor selection: Evaluated proposals & worked with sourcing to onboard vendor under a week
  • High Performance Computing Datacenter Optimization, Tech Consultant, GE Corporate
  • Data Analytics: Identified key issues hampering performance of GE’s biggest Linux compute cluster
  • Global Dashboard Design: Enabled BI reporting for monitoring of compute resources across all regions
  • User Experience: Designed, led initiatives to improve end-user experience of IT applications
  • Resource Optimization: Achieved savings of ~$1mn by optimizing compute resource utilization
  • Change Management: Proposed and facilitated fundamental change in compute performance metrics
  • Project Management: Implemented secured architecture network changes for over 60 GE sites
  • Asset Management: Consolidated 3 GE India datacenters into 1 with zero downtime & savings of $0.9mn
Mobile Platform StrategyProject ManagementData Analytics

Intern - IT Leadership Program

May 2012Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Best ITLP Summer Intern Award 2012

Nvidia

Design Engineer

Aug 2008May 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

  • Microprocessor design and development along with benchmarking
  • Responsible for Release Management
  • Led a team of 34 engineers to manage mobile chip development test suite
  • Owned low power design for improving chip efficiency by 40%
  • Automation: Managed multi-location, multi-platform, multi-application testing automation environment
  • Project Execution: Delivered comparative performance reports to improve branding of graphics processors
Microprocessor DesignBenchmarkingDesign Engineering

Lg electronics

Intern Product Quality Assurance - Digital Display Media

Jun 2006Jul 2006 · 1 mo · Greater Noida

  • Consulted on improving the quality assurance methodology in the Digital Display Media department
  • Gained in-depth understanding of quality assurance techniques used for digital display media across industry

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Delhi College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Jan 2004Jan 2008

The Mother's International School

Computer Science

Jan 1994Jan 2004

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