Award and Achievements: Product Portfolio

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Varun Garg

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur


Phone: (+91) 9928840497 | Email: [email protected] | Product Portfolio

AWARD AND ACHIEVEMENTS


• Distinguished as a Top Fellow of NextLeap Product Management fellowship, ranking in top 5% among 700+ members across 4 cohorts.
• Awarded 1st Prize in Product Teardown & Won Social Media Challenge in The Product Folks' competition among 1000+ Participants.
• Awarded Growth Booster for successful integration of Trade Emerge in InstaBIZ Mobile App, essential corporate banking applications.
• Achieved Department Rank 3 [B. Arch, '21] batch with standout academic performance i.e. A/A+ grades in 45+ institute courses
EDUCATION AND SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT
Program Institution % / CGPA Year
Bachelors’ Major Degree
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 8.72/10 (Dept. Rank = 3rd) 2021
B. Arch (Hons.)
Micro-Specialization
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 9.25/10 2021
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
IIT-JEE (Advanced) IIT Council – Joint Admissions Board 99.2 %ile (out of 1.2 Mn+ aspirants) 2016
XII (CBSE) Sanskriti the School, Ajmer 90.4% (School Rank 1) 2015
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Trade Emerge | Problem framing; Strategy; ideation; Design; Tech Developments; Beta Testing, User Analytics, Marketing
ICICI Bank
Awarded ‘Growth Booster’ by ICICI Bank | Product and Team won CELENTs Award [‘22], ‘Game Changers’ Award;
Product Played Active Role in 0 to 1 product development of Trade Emerge-Industry-first B2B solution curated for Trade SMEs;
Manager • Led integrations on flagship ICICI products CIB, TOL, InstaBIZ, increasing traffic by 33% and user conversions by 20%
• Orchestrated successful deployment of 40+ sprints & user stories collaborating with multiple product stakeholders
• Co-conducted 30 user interviews for problem discovery and validation, partnering with market research agency
• Meticulously drafted 8 PRDs capturing identified product opportunities; presented PRDs to cross-functional teams
• Generated weekly user insights reports & analyzed traffic, digital marketing campaigns via Google Analytics, VWO
• Created FY-24 product strategy & quarterly roadmaps, envisaged to achieve 2X growth in new banking customers
Mumbai, India
(July’21 –Present) Trade Online & Allied Digital Platform| Conversational, Generative AI-based Chatbot Integration; API design & Testing
[23 Months] • Leading integration of NLP - BERT based Chatbot on TOL, reducing person-hrs. spent by 30% in query resolution
• Co-designed workflows & implemented 3 REST APIs under API Suite, conducted extensive API testing on Postman
• Strengthened chatbot Knowledge Base/Trained Set pushing new FAQs & incorporating phrasings for existing set

TJA Inc. Design and Construction | Project Management; Design; Analysis; Simulations Client & Vendor Coordination
Project
Awarded Recommendations letters from Mr. T. Jersey & Ms. R. Huang for exceptional performance and work ethics
Coordinator
• Designed buildings for 4 major clients in California, overseeing high-value projects exceeding $1 million in value.
• Conferred with consultants & engineers to achieve 20% reductions in energy usage and dead load for sustainability.
San Francisco • Negotiated with products vendors to taper construction costs by ≥ 10% via recommending sustainable products
Bay Area, USA
• Partnered with architects to ideate designs, delivering presentations, ensuring Bay Area city authorities permits.
(Dec’19 – July’20)

Memory Point Product Management and Research | product discovery, research, and growth; product strategy; UI/UX design
Product Intern
• Contributed to product building event schema for 6 screens for Mixpanel event tracking, UI/UX design on Figma
Remote • Devised strategies for acquiring initial 1000 users for product, explored monetization opportunities for Application
(May’21 – Jul’21)
FELLOWSHIP AND COMPETITIONS
Coveted as NextLeap’s Top Product Management Fellow [‘23] on 1st attempt at Graduation Project in May among
Product 700+ participants, and 135+ submissions among 4 participating learning cohorts
Manager • Successfully completed 12 Week+ Intensive PM course, involving 15+ Hand-on assignments and 8+ Product Cases
Fellowship • Tackled industry-relevant problems i.e., enhancing quality of Instagram Reels; increase Netflix’s onboarding of new users

Product 1st Prize [‘23] in VAMA App Product Teardown; Winner [’23] in Social Media Challenge among 1000+ global
Teardown participants, 100+ submissions, accumulating cash prize of ₹ 43k in the coveted The Product Folks competition
Challenge • Amplified user retention & engagement rates by devising product strategies, revamping user experience of VAMA App
EXPERTISE AND INTERESTS
• Apps: Figma, Whimsical, Postman, JIRA, Google Analytics, VWO, CRMNext, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite
Relevant Skills • Tech: C/C++, HTML, SQL; Books: Hooked, Tech Simplified, Making of CEO, Cracking PM Interview, Design of Everything
• Participated in 3 Major Corporate Cricket Tournaments in Mumbai [’21 to ‘23], and internal ICICI Bank [‘22] League
• Represented Ajmer District in U-16 State-Level Cricket [‘13], squad selected from pool of 500+ U-16 cricketers in Ajmer
Sports and
• Active member of Indian Music Club in school, won major Inter-School and Inter-House singing competition
Social
• Volunteered for NSS [‘16], contributed via road construction, irrigation, flood relief collection for underprivileged
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