Varun Paliwal
Product Manager
Bangalore
Summary
Agile Certified Product Management Leader with a strong experience of 11+ years worked across multiple domains such as e-commerce, retail, and energy clients like Jio Platform (JioMart-B2C- Web and Mobile app), Vmware (Docs Portal/CDF Program-Web) and ( Infosys- British Petroleum, Schlumberger, Citi Bank, General Electric and Income Tax) .
Empathetic customer advocate focused on translating high-level business needs and market intelligence into concrete product features, outcome-oriented business plans, and operations.
Earned reputation for a management style that motivates and promotes personal development and career growth, resulting in improved performance.
Motivated professional with extensive experience in product sales and distribution. Possesses unmatched leadership and strategy skills to maximize company revenue. Expertise in management, marketing strategies and merchandising.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Product Manager
Reliance Jio Platofrms, JioMart
Bangalore
11.2021 - Current
- JioMart (B2C) retail platform (Web, m-site and App), Role- PO/PM
- Innovate, conceptualised, design, launch and manage new products and programs for improving experience and increasing revenue with new customer experiences
- Development of Functional and Technical Epics, Use cases, User stories, wireframes
- As PO/PM worked with Business Users and Technical Architect to understand and analyse business requirements (RWT and SWT sessions)
- Worked on key components like Integration of logistic service partner (Xpressbees, Dunzo and QWIK), Business Vertical Integration (Zivame and Urban Ladder) and build verticals from scratch (JIT)
- Enable Key Features Delivery fee, review and ratings, UPI payment, Selection of Best logistics partner, Product Return logics(3P and 1P)
- Development of user stories includes requirement gathering, documentation and capture both functional and non-functional requirements
- Planned & scheduled releases (Product Maintenance, Feature, HotFixes) & tracked them from planning to delivery stage; followed by Release Announcements
- Use market and customer feedback, competitive analysis and business metrics to make informed decisions based on analytics data
- Improved collaboration with various cross functional stakeholder teams like Marketing, Sales, Business, customer care and Logistics team
- Extensively used Microsoft Azure Board, Sharepoint, Confluence to plan, track & monitor multiple releases.
- Skills: Cross-functional Collaborations · Product Strategy · Product Requirements · User Experience (UX)
Product Owner and Scrum Master
Vmware India Private Limited
Bangalore
09.2019 - 11.2021
- Drove the strategic planning, development and delivery of VMware Docs, the Release Notes Automation (RNA) Tool, and DocWorks, - a suite of products that powers the company’s content publishing platform globally. It is utilized by all VMware product teams for authoring and publishing product documentation. On a monthly basis, VMware Docs serves over a million customers across the globe.
* Engaged in conversations with external and internal users and partners, as well as analyzed competition and tracked the latest industry trends, to identify customer needs, maintain product-line agility and customer responsiveness.
* Ensured product strategies aligned with customer and stakeholder needs, including creating and communicating product-line roadmap, defining minimal viable product (MVP), prioritizing platform features, establishing KPIs, and measuring product adoption.
*Drove the strategic planning, development and delivery of VMware Docs, the Release Notes Automation (RNA) Tool, and DocWorks, - a suite of products that powers the company’s content publishing platform globally. It is utilized by all VMware product teams for authoring and publishing product documentation. On a monthly basis, VMware Docs serves over a million customers across the globe. * Engaged in conversations with external and internal users and partners, as well as analyzed competition and tracked the latest industry trends, to identify customer needs, maintain product-line agility and customer responsiveness. * Ensured product strategies aligned with customer and stakeholder needs, including creating and communicating product-line roadmap, defining minimal viable product (MVP), prioritizing platform features, establishing KPIs, and measuring product adoption. - Skills: Team Management · Strategic Roadmaps · Cross-functional Collaborations · Product Strategy · Product Requirements · User Experience (UX)
Business Analyst/Product Owner
Infosys
Bangalore
05.2012 - 09.2019
- Program – Income Tax 2.0
- Program – EdgeLINC, Client – GE Transportation
- Program – Field execution, Implementation and Management , Client – Schlumberger
- Program – BP SAP Migration, Client – British Petroleum
Education
B.E - Computer Science
R.G.P.V
Bhopal 07.2005 - 05.2009
MBA - Oil And Gas
University of Petroleum And Energy Studies
Dehradun 07.2010 - 05.2012
Skills
Agile Program/Project Management
Accomplishments
- Agile Scrum Tools- Microsoft Azure, Rally, JIRA, Confluecne
- Wireframe- Draw.io, Miro, Figma, Visio
- Analytics and Reporting- Tableau Reports, Adobe analytics reports, JIRA reports
- Database- SQL/Oracle
Certification
Certified Agile Project Management (Coursera)-2023
Additional Information
Linkedin Details- https://www.linkedin.com/in/varun-paliwal-8ab2b62b/
Timeline
Safe Agilist 6.0
11-2023
Certified Agile Project Management (Coursera)-2023
05-2023
Product Manager
Reliance Jio Platofrms, JioMart
11.2021 - Current
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by
11-2019
Product Owner and Scrum Master
Vmware India Private Limited
09.2019 - 11.2021
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) by Scrum Alliance.
03-2019
Business Analyst/Product Owner
Infosys
05.2012 - 09.2019
MBA - Oil And Gas
University of Petroleum And Energy Studies
07.2010 - 05.2012
B.E - Computer Science
R.G.P.V
07.2005 - 05.2009
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