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🚀 Varun Acharya

Product Designer

India7 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led design for popular games like BINGO and UNO.
Achieved significant user retention improvements.
Expert in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Designer with expertise in Gaming and Fintech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignUser Experience Design (ued)

Other Skills

Adobe Creative SuiteAdobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopAdobe XDAutoCADAutodesk Sketchbook ProCustomer Service ManagementDesignDesign PrinciplesDesign ThinkingEnglishFigma (Software)Framework DesignHTMLHindi

About

Varun Acharya is an experienced product designer with 7+ years of professional experience on both B2B & B2C. Proven track record of delivering visually appealing and seamless products that meet target customer expectations. Currently, he leads platform design for US, Brasil, and Nigeria at MPL, where he has built popular games like BINGO, UNO, and GIN RUMMY. Previously, he worked with Blackbuck & Vahak. With expertise in Figma & many Adobe tools, he brings a creative approach to product design and problem-solving. His global experience collaborating with teams from the US, Nigeria, Indonesia, Singapore, China, and Brasil has equipped him with a unique understanding of diverse user needs. Let's connect and explore opportunities to create impactful products together.

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Mobile premier league (mpl)

Senior Product Designer

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

✦ Led platform design for USA, Nigeria & Brazil, introducing bundles, offers, bonus boosters, and missions — driving a 18% lift in deposit conversions and a +12% increase in ARPPU.
✦ Improved Platforms FTUE (First-Time-User-Flow) flows for both US & Nigeria which seen up tick of 12-15% increase in PDAU & CPDAU compared to previous flow & 10% reduction in drop-offs during first deposit journey.
✦ Building internal tool DATA STUDIO, which helps our PMs, CLM team, revenue team, tech team, etc to analyse and create campaigns, analyse funnels and setting instrumentations. This Resulted in 40% faster campaign deployment, 30% reduction in funnel analysis time, and improved cross-team efficiency.
✦ Built GIN RUMMY ULTRA mutant RMG app for US audience which includes Home-screen, Lobby, Wallet, Profile, Gameplay/Unity UI and FTUE. In just the first three weeks of release, the app experienced 15% increase in depositor retention.
✦ Designed SPADES-GIN, a surrogate F2P app which hosts two games SPADES and GIN RUMMY, aim of this app is to convert users into MPL Pro members. Early prototypes indicate a 25% CTR on MPL Pro cross-promo surfaces.
✦ Owned end-to-end design & scaling of multiple games, managing a cross-functional team (2 illustrators, 1 motion designer, 2 Unity devs) to ship high-complexity titles (including patented mechanics):
Bingo skill (Classic 5x5 Tambola)
Draw4 (UNO card game)
Gin rummy (till Nov-2024)
Spades (till Nov-2024)
Whot
Poker puzzle
Block puzzle
✦ Building central formats like 1vN-Skillscore (for tournaments) and helping Beat-the-score (for game events), enabling plug-and-play scalability across 10+ casual games.
✦ Streamlined design org processes with the help of lead designers, improving team efficiency and speed!
Information architecture for multiple tournament formats
Use of AI to conduct MVP testing
Standardized GDD process for game designers
Setting up localisation processes

User Interface PrototypingHuman Machine InterfaceUser JourneysInteractive ProjectsFramework DesignVisual Design+27

Adplist.org

Design Mentor

Apr 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Designed.org

Design Mentor

Apr 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Blackbuck (zinka logistics solutions ltd)

Product Designer

Oct 2022 – Apr 2023 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

✦ Worked on BBPro Financial Services - which basically includes lending loan based on applicant’s credit score using Business Rules Engine (BRE), EKYC and various eligibility checks.
✦ Improving Blackbuck’s Credit Portal by updating based on user feedback and introducing automated checks which in turn makes hassle-free and efficient experience for CROs, BCM, ZCM and partner banks.
Prime Focus: Maintaining Information hierarchy and Design system tokens, Prototypes and Deployment.

User Interface DesignUser ResearchPrototypingInformation ArchitectureProduct Design

Vahak

2 roles

Product Designer

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Oct 2022 · 6 mos

Vahak is a platform by which users can book loads and lorries from a live transport marketplace with over 10 lakh+ GST and Aadhar-verified transporters
✦ Revamping user experience in both Loader's and Lorry owner's Listing/Detailed screens
✦ Re-imagining and responsible for Vahak Payment flow (Escrow) and its user journey
✦ Restructuring our Marketplace experience by conducting user-testing and then creating visually dynamic search tabs
✦ Refer and earn: Increased Onboarding rate by 10% and Referred User registration by 30%
✦ Ledgerbook: A feature where user gets an overview of pending payment to be received, sent and history of received and sent amount. Also acts as an indirect entry point for payment. Future scope includes bulk payment and payment reminders.

Framework DesignInteractive ProjectsProduct Design

UI/UX Designer

Jun 2021 – Apr 2022 · 10 mos

✦ Marketplace : Bid forms, Load/Lorry Posting forms, Dashboard for Listing screen (My load/My lorry), Detail screen & Transaction screen
✦ Payments : Bid Negotiation Flow, Payment(Advance/Balance) Negotiation flow, Payment flow including refund and cashback
✦ Gamification : (Leaderboard, Bank Account & KYC) Badges in Profile, Banners
✦ Creating Awareness : Storyboarding via Infography on benefits of Vahak Payments & adding KYC
✦ Design System : Iconography & Illustration
✦ Weekly meetings with Product team and tech team, Conducting Interviews with users, Hiring Interviews for product/UI designers, creating Flowcharts, Information Architecture, Wireframes, Prototypes and Deployment.

Information ArchitectureWireframingUser Experience Design (UED)

Freelance ux/ui designer

Freelance Designer

Mar 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Udupi, Karnataka, India

✦ Designed flowchart and basic UI for 2 mobile apps
✦ Brand designing such as Logo, Social Media Assets, Banners & Posters for 6 local companies.
✦ Also made a Character Design for the Game content creator, Illustrations and Digital Painting.

Elemental fixtures private limited - india

Designer

Sep 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Jigani, Bangalore

Here I was involved in conceptualisation & brainstorming on website and details screen for each physical products. Some of my activities include designing layouts, finalising, production follow up and deployment of site.