Varun R.
Bengaluru, India
Rising Talent
Product & Growth Manager (ex Y Combinator backed startup)
$40.00/hr
🚀Having spent more than 2 years at a YCombinator-backed high-growth startup ($1M+ Annual Recurring Revenue) as a founding member and product manager, I know the ins and outs of how to take things from 0 to 1 at an organization and then scale them up to become a category leader.
🌟My past experiences include:
● Led product development and sales for a B2B SaaS product, getting featured on Product Hunt products of the day two times (ranked #1 and #3 respectively)
● Setting up and running a successful B2B newsletter (for my previous company), read by 5,000+ startup founders every week.
● Setting up operations from scratch at a young organization, witnessing 60% month-on-month growth.
● Building multiple internal tools using Airtable & Retool to help operations teams.
● Founding and running a successful e-commerce brand clocking $10k+ MRR.
🎯I can help you with:
★ Product Management: Talking to users, managing tech sprints & design deadlines, working on new features and making sure they are shipped on time.
★ Operations & Project Management: I can help you make sure that everything in your project is streamlined and your team is hitting the KPIs consistently. Excellent at managing people, deadlines, and everything in between with over 2+ years of experience working closely with operations teams.
★ Being the generalist: If you're looking for someone who can join you and work on literally everything from Tech to Sales, I can be the master of many traits you're looking for.
★ Building stellar internal tools to help your organization scale up fast.
💪My strengths
★ Extreme sense of ownership - since I have spent most of my life working at startups, my default is to take complete ownership of the projects I am working on and make sure that they are functioning properly.
★ Punctuality and Honesty - I believe in delivering excellent quality work, on time, every time.
★ Quick learner - my curiosity to learn and pick up new things enables me to work on new things and get going with them faster than the rest of the people.
★ Experienced at scaling up a company - my experience as a founding member of a startup has helped me see different stages of a business/organization and I have spent decent time at all of those stages, absorbing all the learnings.
I have picked up freelancing very recently, and am looking forward to creating immense value for my clients through my work - doing my part in making them a category leader in their space.
Sounds like a fit? Here are the next steps:
🟢 Click the green ‘Invite to Job’ button in the top right-hand corner
💬 Drop me a message with a brief about your project and how can I contribute to it!
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- Leadership Skills
- Strategy
- Business Development
- Entrepreneurship
- Product Analytics
- Product Management
- JavaScript
- SQL
- Growth Hacking
- UI/UX Prototyping
- Data Analysis
- MySQL
- Airtable
- Agile Project Management
Varun R.
Bengaluru, India
Rising Talent
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Product & Growth Manager (ex Y Combinator backed startup)
Specializes in$40.00/hr
🚀Having spent more than 2 years at a YCombinator-backed high-growth startup ($1M+ Annual Recurring Revenue) as a founding member and product manager, I know the ins and outs of how to take things from 0 to 1 at an organization and then scale them up to become a category leader.
🌟My past experiences include:
● Led product development and sales for a B2B SaaS product, getting featured on Product Hunt products of the day two times (ranked #1 and #3 respectively)
● Setting up and running a successful B2B newsletter (for my previous company), read by 5,000+ startup founders every week.
● Setting up operations from scratch at a young organization, witnessing 60% month-on-month growth.
● Building multiple internal tools using Airtable & Retool to help operations teams.
● Founding and running a successful e-commerce brand clocking $10k+ MRR.
🎯I can help you with:
★ Product Management: Talking to users, managing tech sprints & design deadlines, working on new features and making sure they are shipped on time.
★ Operations & Project Management: I can help you make sure that everything in your project is streamlined and your team is hitting the KPIs consistently. Excellent at managing people, deadlines, and everything in between with over 2+ years of experience working closely with operations teams.
★ Being the generalist: If you're looking for someone who can join you and work on literally everything from Tech to Sales, I can be the master of many traits you're looking for.
★ Building stellar internal tools to help your organization scale up fast.
💪My strengths
★ Extreme sense of ownership - since I have spent most of my life working at startups, my default is to take complete ownership of the projects I am working on and make sure that they are functioning properly.
★ Punctuality and Honesty - I believe in delivering excellent quality work, on time, every time.
★ Quick learner - my curiosity to learn and pick up new things enables me to work on new things and get going with them faster than the rest of the people.
★ Experienced at scaling up a company - my experience as a founding member of a startup has helped me see different stages of a business/organization and I have spent decent time at all of those stages, absorbing all the learnings.
I have picked up freelancing very recently, and am looking forward to creating immense value for my clients through my work - doing my part in making them a category leader in their space.
Sounds like a fit? Here are the next steps:
🟢 Click the green ‘Invite to Job’ button in the top right-hand corner
💬 Drop me a message with a brief about your project and how can I contribute to it!
Work History
No items
Portfolio
Skills
- Leadership Skills
- Strategy
- Business Development
- Entrepreneurship
- Product Analytics
- Product Management
- JavaScript
- SQL
- Growth Hacking
- UI/UX Prototyping
- Data Analysis
- MySQL
- Airtable
- Agile Project Management
Hours per week
As Needed - Open to Offers
Testimonials
Endorsements from past clients
"If you're looking for a project manager who can deliver results with a smile, Varun is your guy. During his time at Weekday, Varun led multiple projects to success with his signature mix of precision and humor. He's the kind of person who can keep a team on track without ever taking himself too seriously. His communication skills are top-notch, and he knows how to balance the needs of stakeholders with the realities of project constraints. I can't recommend Varun enough -- if you're lucky enough to work with him, you're in for a treat."
Kaustubh W.
| Founder's Office
Growth & Product Manager
Mar 2023
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