AI Product Manager · Montréal, Canada

VarunManthapuri.

I build products that make money.

Zero-to-one MVPs in Addis Ababa. Market expansions across Europe and North America. Enterprise products at Morgan Stanley. 8+ years, 4 continents, 5 industries — always from idea to shipped, adopted, and monetized.

See the work LinkedIn
Years in Product
Continents shipped on
Product launches
Proj. ARR — EU expansion

Selected Work

Impact, measured

Morgan Stanley · via Virtusa · 2025 – Present

The reporting platform 50+ departments at a global bank now run on

Owning product strategy and rollout for a mission-critical internal platform migration — aligning stakeholders across 6+ divisions, sequencing adoption for 50+ departments, eliminating major infrastructure cost, and lifting how the whole organization reports and works.

50+
Departments onboarded, 6+ divisions
80+ TB
Infrastructure cost eliminated
+30%
Reporting & work efficiency
+25%
Sprint efficiency

Perform (Total Performance Consulting LLC) · AI Fintech SaaS · 2024 – 2025

Six AI payments & invoicing products, shipped into three new markets

Program-managed product and GTM for a US-based AI fintech platform — orchestrating 8+ cross-functional teams to launch 35+ high-impact initiatives across 6 core products, and leading change and risk management for the platform's expansion into Europe.

$3.25M
Projected ARR — European expansion
35+
Initiatives launched in 6 months
6
Core products, 3 int'l markets
+35%
Sprint productivity (team of 4)

Avesdo · Proptech TMS · 2022 – 2023

A deposits product and public API that opened two new revenue lines

Owned 4 products serving 5 personas. Led UI/UX and development of the Deposits Collection product, and drove the APIs & Webhooks strategy that opened a new integration revenue stream — while lifting the North Star Metric and retention.

$300k
API/Webhooks revenue in 6 months
$400k
Proj. revenue — Deposits product
+32%
North Star Metric in 1 year
+53%
Repeat clients

Taskmoby · Marketplace · Addis Ababa · 2020 – 2021

A marketplace rebuilt zero-to-one, then productized for B2B

Supervised a team of 4 rebuilding the web platform, pricing app and mobile apps from the ground up — then expanded the consumer marketplace into an entirely new B2B line in one of the world's toughest operating markets.

50k
Registered users
1,500+
Jobs created on platform
10+
B2B clients signed in 6 months
$50k+
New B2B revenue

The Journey

BOM → BER → DXB → ADD → YYZ → YUL
YUL

May 2025 – Present · Montréal, Canada · Contract, Hybrid

Senior Product Consultant

Morgan Stanley (via Virtusa)

  • Leading agile product management for enterprise internal tooling used across the bank.
  • Spearheading a platform migration product for 6+ divisions and 50+ departments.
ATL

Jun 2024 – Feb 2025 · Atlanta, USA · Contract, Remote

Program Manager — Product

Perform (Total Performance Consulting LLC) · AI Fintech SaaS

  • Led GTM strategy for 35+ initiatives across 6 core products in 3 international markets.
  • Drove change, risk and operational management for European expansion (proj. $3.25M ARR).
YXE

Jan 2024 – May 2024 · Saskatoon, Canada · Full-time

Senior Product Manager

MyKey Global Accommodations

  • Led a team of 4 to eliminate user-flow inefficiencies — sprint productivity up 35%.
  • Partnered with 5+ cross-functional teams on new revenue products (proj. ~$2.5M annual revenue).
YYZ

May 2022 – Dec 2023 · Toronto, Canada · Full-time, Remote

Product Manager

Avesdo · Real-Estate Transaction Management

  • Managed 4 products across 5 personas; sprint productivity up 23%, NSM up 32%.
  • Shipped Deposits Collection and API/Webhooks products — $700k combined revenue impact.
BER

Dec 2021 – Apr 2022 · Berlin, Germany · Contract, Remote

Product Management Consultant

Product People · Clients incl. Zalando & OneFootball

  • Advocated IT solutions with prioritized MVP planning — potential savings of €1.5M across departments.
  • Overhauled workflows with 20+ stakeholders, lifting supply-chain efficiency by 31%.
ADD

Feb 2020 – Nov 2021 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia · Full-time

Product Manager

Taskmoby · Services Marketplace

  • Rebuilt web, pricing and mobile products — 50k registered users, 1,500+ jobs created.
  • Expanded into B2B: 10+ clients and $50k+ revenue in 6 months.
BER

Feb 2018 – Jan 2020 · Berlin, Germany · Full-time

Associate Product Manager

Konfidio & ArchiTangle

  • Blockchain and Web3 product development — from provenance solutions to identity management.

What Teams Say

From LinkedIn recommendations

Product colleagues at Zalando credited Varun's attention to detail with helping the team avoid risks more than once and steer a new domain's strategy toward a successful proof of concept.

— Product team collaborator · Zalando engagement

A partner on a complex internal Zalando product described his discovery work — defining problems by finding gaps in existing processes — as crucial to setting the right foundation for a new tool, calling him a high-impact addition to any product team.

— Engineering collaborator · Zalando engagement

The Toolkit

Craft × Stack

Product Craft

  • Product Vision & Strategy
  • Roadmapping & Lifecycle
  • Go-To-Market Strategy
  • Discovery & Market Research
  • Scrum & Agile Delivery
  • A/B Testing

Tools

  • Jira Suite · ProductBoard
  • ClickUp · Aha! · Asana
  • Figma · Miro · Whimsical
  • Google Analytics · Pendo
  • Postman API · Confluence

Domains

  • Fintech · Payments · Invoicing
  • Proptech · Marketplaces
  • Enterprise SaaS · B2B
  • Blockchain · Web3
  • Cloud — Azure · GCP

Certifications

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner®
  • Lean Six Sigma — Green Belt
  • McKinsey Forward Program
  • Software PM Specialization — U. of Alberta

Education & Honours

Engineering × Business

2017 – 2019 · Berlin

MSc in Management — ESMT Berlin

Specialization in Finance & Investments · Allianz merit scholarship · Master's thesis on Self-Sovereign Identity management on blockchain.

2013 – 2017 · Mumbai

B.Tech, Civil Engineering — IIT Bombay

Fast-track degree program · University Badminton Secretary & team member · Department Secretary.

Oct 2020 – Feb 2021 · Online

Software Product Management Specialization — University of Alberta

Six-course specialization covering software product management practice — agile planning, requirements, and client needs.

Winner
Best Social Impact Project — ESMT Berlin
Top project of 18 — improved efficiency of a waste-sorting center in Addis Ababa, managing ~20 workers on the ground.
Winner
Facebook × Henkel Business Hackathon
First place for a product expansion proposal for the Schwarzkopf line.
Winner
Blockchain 4 Business Hackathon
Blockchain-based provenance solution for nuclear mining supply chains.
Winner
Nivea Dubai Apprentice Challenge
Selected from 2,000 applicants for an international internship via a cosmetics case study.
Runner-up
Transform Maharashtra
2nd place for a waste-management solution presented to the Maharashtra government.

Open to AI PM & Product Leadership roles

Let's build
what's next.

varunm0594@gmail.com +1 343 204 8171 LinkedIn