Varun Sridhar

Varun Sridhar

New York City, NY

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Experience

  • VP of ProductMarch 2022 – Present
    Gynger Inc.New York City, NY
    • Strategy & Execution: Joined as employee #3 to lead the end-to-end product lifecycle for an AI-powered financing and payments platform. Scaled the product from initial launch to nearing 8-figures in revenue.
    • Embedded Financing: Deployed the financing suite in early 2023, underpinned by a proprietary underwriting engine, that has facilitated 9-figure originations by leveraging AI to streamline decisioning.
    • Product Expansion: Led the mid-2024 launch of a revenue automation suite, enabling tech vendors to offer flexible payment options to their customers.
    • Platform & Growth: Unified AR workflows into a single platform, leveraging deep ERP and CRM integrations to streamline the quote-to-cash process, driving multi-X topline growth.
  • Vice President and Lead PM, Banking Tech2021 – 2022
    Morgan StanleyNew York City, NY
    • Scaled the Tailored Lending platform to support high 9-figure annual revenue, driving a 26% CAGR by optimizing credit workflows and digital borrower experiences.
    • Led a multi-platform global initiative to transition the multi-billion dollar loan book to Fed-mandated Alternative Reference Rates (SOFR), ensuring regulatory compliance and mitigating systemic risk.
  • Product Manager, Banking Tech2015 – 2020
    Morgan StanleyNew York City, NY ; Montreal, QC
    • Increased revenue $5M+ annually by launching a multi-collateral loan product.
    • Delivered a reduction of 60% in loan booking time via servicing workflow automation and API integrations.
    • Drove 40% YoY loan volume growth by deploying new loan origination system.
  • Tech and Data Business Analyst, InternSummer 2014
    Morgan StanleyNew York City, NY
    • Wrote a PRD for a Wealth Management application that was to be used by 16000+ Financial Advisors.

Skills and Expertise

AI Product: LLM prompting & Eval design, Agent workflow architecture, LangSmith, Claude Code, Rapid prototyping

Technical Skills: Python, SQL, GraphQL, API tools, Figma, Retool, JIRA

Product Leadership: Strategy & Roadmapping, Zero-to-one launch, Team management, Stakeholder alignment, Risk & Compliance

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania2013 – 2015

    Masters in Systems Engineering, GPA: 3.94/4.0

  • The Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaFall 2014

    Research Assistant

    • Built machine learning models to predict TV show viewership trends using scraped social network data.
  • Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi2009 – 2013

    B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, First Division with Distinction

  • Carnegie Mellon UniversitySummer 2012

    Summer Research Intern, Electrical and Computer Engineering

    • Developed a feature extraction algorithm achieving 96% classification accuracy on low-resolution images.