Varun Taneja

Product Manager

Delhi, Delhi, India15 yrs 3 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led AI-driven product initiatives impacting over 10 million users.
Spearheaded UPI development aligning with national financial goals.
Managed cross-functional teams for high-impact product launches.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned product leader in SaaS and Fintech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementArtificial Intelligence (ai)User Experience Design (ued)Program ManagementGo-to-market StrategyProduct Strategy

Other Skills

Computer VisionProduct DesignProduct Lifecycle ManagementPrompt EngineeringPrompt tuningStakeholder ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipTeam ManagementTeam BuildingGlobal Cross-Functional Team LeadershipStrategic VisionB2CBusiness-to-Business (B2B)LeadershipProduct Vision

About

Seasoned product leader with 16 years of experience driving impact across B2C and B2B products in video, productivity, and fintech domains. I’ve led end-to-end product strategy and execution — from discovery to launch — at global organizations like Microsoft, Paytm, and PayU. At Microsoft, I’ve owned high-impact initiatives across AI led video creation and streaming platforms, shaping user experiences for over 10 million users. In earlier roles, I launched mobile-first consumer products and led digital payment innovations during company's high growth years. I’ve worked closely with data science teams to integrate AI/ML capabilities that support business goals — such as content personalization, automation, and smarter user workflows. Strengths include: - Building product-market fit from the ground up - Driving global, cross-functional alignment - Delivering growth through thoughtful roadmap planning - Balancing business needs with user-centric design

Experience

15 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

9 mos

Current Experience

Adobe

Senior Product Manager

Sep 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Gen-AI ad creation with Adobe's Firefly model

Microsoft

3 roles

Senior Product Manager

Jun 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Lead IDC PM for Copilot Clips - short AI generated video reels, grounded on enterprise content.
Lead PM for iOS Clipchamp B2C mobile app- Clipchamp is default video editor for M365 apps

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Computer VisionProduct ManagementProduct DesignProduct Lifecycle ManagementPrompt Engineering+21

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Nov 2019 – May 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Lead PM for Video platform migration
Led a team of developers, designers and vendors to create a migration tool that enabled Microsoft's 30K customers on platform, transfer their 70M videos (8PB data) and 10M users.
Evaluated a build vs buy vs hire decision and drove alignment with internal stakeholders before creating the migration tool

Product ManagementProgram ManagementStakeholder ManagementTeam ManagementTeam BuildingProduct Strategy+2

Program Manager II

Apr 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

Founding PM on Office mobile app for Android and iOS, a 170M MAU app that was built entirely out of India.
Responsible for GTM of the app. Defined strategy targeting distribution channels and Pre-install deals with Samsung, Xiaomi. Introduced free monthly trials, and worked with marketing to define launch plan & outline content strategy

Go-to-Market StrategyStakeholder ManagementCross-functional Collaborations

Paytm

Senior Product Manager

Feb 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida Area, India

As part of payment gateway business, spearheaded UPI development aligning Paytm’s roadmap with national financial infrastructure initiatives
In Payments bank launched the first debit card. Building card issuance on app and designing its settlement and reconciliation for online and POS usage.

Product ManagementCross-team CollaborationProduct StrategyStakeholder ManagementTeam Management

Payu india

3 roles

Senior Product Manager

Apr 2016 – Jan 2017 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

- Designed a real-time decisioning engine to route the transaction on best payment rails based on transaction cost, approval and fraud rates

Product ManagementTeam ManagementProduct StrategyStakeholder EngagementCross-Functional Team Building

Product Manager

Jan 2014 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

Owned merchant experiences; paperless digital onboarding to reduce go-live, self-serve KPI dashboard to reduce customer queries
Designed and executed direct bank integration by-passing card network, this improved transaction cost and approval rates.

Product ManagementCross-functional Coordination

Product Management Intern

Jul 2013 – Aug 2013 · 1 mo

Got PPO for analyzing PayU money's online path to improve customer conversion. Recommendation led to change in company's mid-term strategies.

Delhi metro rail corporation ltd

Assistant Manager, Train Operational Maintenance

May 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Responsible for timely dispatch and smooth running of train of Line-6 (Central Secretariat- Badarpur) in Delhi Metro network.
Managed maintenance operations for 30 trains carrying 650 million passengers annually for Delhi Metro’s prominent train depot using process
Project managed the commissioning of 15 trains before schedule time to meet Commonwealth Games deadline as for Jawarlal Nehru stadium was prominent metro station on Line-6

Tata consultancy services

Assistant Systems Engineer

Jun 2008 – Jul 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

- Worked as business analyst and gathered client requirements to design Functional Specification documents for a platform change project. Analyzed the legacy application code to derive key insights which reduced project time by 10 %