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VARUN KUMAR SINGH
Product Manager
Bangalore,Karnataka
Summary
Creative Senior Product Manager offering 6+ years of success in product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Data driven and strategic with proven history of development and enhancement of products and product launch.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Product Manager
Jobvite
Bangalore, India, India
02.2021 - Current
- PM for Integration teams responsible for new development and manage changes to 350+ integrations
- Research for UX / UI revamp of product - customer research, user persona development, and business plan creation, to enable self configuration of 85%+ use cases
- Led Jobvite - PeopleSoft integration, created feature specs and design, product demo and discussion with tech team to get feature created and coordination with sales to sell the feature (6 deals closed)
- Led Jobvite - LinkedIn RSC Integration, creation of feature specs, discussion with tech team for feature development, created release documentation and coordinated with marketing team for the feature promotion
- Mentor a Product Manager, and guide him to extract best ROI from his list of priorities
Product Manager
PowerSchool
Bangalore, India, US, India
11.2019 - 02.2021
- PM for Applicant Tracking products (ATS, ATE and IG), SchoolSpring job board and Candidate Assessment, products which manage hiring for 1.2 million jobs in USA (35% market share in K-12)
- Led integration of ATS & IG products with SchoolSpring job board for automated real-time job posting, directing applicants to a single job board, 1st Adopter - North Carolina State
- Led design phase of revamped school district / consortium level job board, with location driven ability to find a job at a school near you (similar to Airbnb), 1st adopter - Iowa State
- Added DoE Florida certifications to ATE to enhance applicant filtering for Florida school districts, making it easier to find teachers with required certifications to teach
- Led Implementation of MS (Azure) and Google IDP’s based SSO and AppSwitcher (enhanced UX and real time data sync) to reduce 20% data entry time spend on talent products
- Research for 2021 business cases - Mobile App for ATS, AI based identification of best candidates at each hiring level, improve applicant experience with one click apply and map view for jobs in SchoolSpring
Product Manager
Cropin
Bangalore, India, India
01.2018 - 11.2019
- Developed new features for SmartFarm, which helped increase revenue from $0.5M to $4.5M in 2 years (SaaS Agri ERP product that generates close to 75% of company’s sales)
- Analyzed competitive landscape, did SWOT analysis for our products, identified priority features per vertical (greenhouse, seed, plantation, seasonal) and per region for better product targeting
- Created API strategy, identified set of features that can be exposed as API’s to our customers, helped in increasing customer retention to 90% (increased barriers to exit)
- Researched and identified data & product changes and led the implementation phase to ensure CropIn products are GDPR compliant
- Introduced features to manage crop seed R&D, which helped the product to expand to a new vertical, helped bring in 3 new MNC seed companies, up-sell to existing seed customers
- Managed an additional product – AcreSquare, a B2B2C app for farmers, identified and designed features which had first proof of concept sale in India (Canara Bank) and Brazil (Toyota – NovaAgri)
Product Manager
Infosys (Client : AstraZeneca)
Manchester, UK, UK, India
04.2013 - 06.2015
- Worked with marketing, business and engineering teams to analyze benefits vs cost, plan, build and launch high quality in-house enterprise product and product features (which won Gartner awards)
- Managed P&L for business intelligence division, responsible to get incremental contracts by helping pre-sales and creation of RFP documents
- Led an 8-member team of developers, UI and UX designers, mentored them, could get 50% more work done
Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Infosys
Pune, India
01.2012 - 03.2013
- Engineered a new competitive intelligence product with web and iOS app front-end to analyze data using BI tools by integrating worldwide sales data for 11,000 competitors using external data sets
- Coded new metrics with complex calculations, created dynamic reports / dashboards enabling company vs competitor’s comparisons, eliminating future changes; reducing operational costs by 25
Business Intelligence Developer
Infosys
Pune, India
06.2009 - 12.2011
- Maintained and enhanced finance & operations systems for clients, systems that recorded over $25B in sales per year, and ensured 99.8% availability for smooth business operations
Education
MBA - Business Administration
Goizueta Business School, Emory University
Atlanta, USA 07.2015 - 05.2017
B.Tech - Information Technology
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
Durgapur, India 08.2005 - 05.2009
Skills
Product Management
Program Management
User Persona Creation
Business Planning
Software
Aha / Roadmunk
SQL
Pendo
Figma
Postman
Additional Information
Canada PR application in progress
Timeline
Product Manager
Jobvite
02.2021 - Current
Product Manager
PowerSchool
11.2019 - 02.2021
Product Manager
Cropin
01.2018 - 11.2019
MBA - Business Administration
Goizueta Business School, Emory University
07.2015 - 05.2017
Product Manager
Infosys (Client : AstraZeneca)
04.2013 - 06.2015
Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Infosys
01.2012 - 03.2013
Business Intelligence Developer
Infosys
06.2009 - 12.2011
B.Tech - Information Technology
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
08.2005 - 05.2009