Varun Panesar Email & Phone Number

Budapest, Hungary

- Manage a team of 4 designers where I support, coach and drive their professional and personal growth. Foster a culture of continuous learning and design excellence. - Collaborate with product owners, engineers, and executive stakeholders across Europe and Latin America region to strategise and manage the entire product lifecycle, shaping the overall vision and roadmap, and guiding the direction of product development.- Lead the extensive company-wide design system called Accedo Reels, which will be implemented across current and future internal and external products.- Establish a research-oriented design culture that incorporates usability testing, qualitative and quantitive research to drive data-driven, conversion-focused product design and development. Establish res-ops with with internal product offering - Accedo Healthcheck.- Collaborate with the sales team to develop RFPs and RFQs for potential new clients, including strategising team structure and project estimations.- Streamline, establish and manage overall team operations on external and internal projects. - Lead delivery of successfully shipped products for a global Tier-1 OTT and Video operator clientele.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

- Brainstorm, collaborate, and lead Accedo’s brightest minds in the Asia Pacific region comprising a global team of Sr. Designers, Junior Designers and Product Managers to build great interfaces and strategies around it.- Led user experience design and strategy for a massive Tata Play Binge Project which involved design strategy, innovative concept development, architecture, wireframes, visual design, establishing design system and streamlined developer hand off.- Led the product design for Tata Play Application which involved implementation of micro-features which involved in increasing app revenue.- Led user experience design for improvised feature usage for Les Mills, New Zealand. This involved thorough user testing.- Successfully led the strategy and design for Accedo’s internal innovation project which will be launched globally. It is Accedo’s current top-rated product.

Delhi, India

• Established a luxury brand to make functional yet unconventional products.• Designing products with an unconventional approach to design.• Establishing the Brand which includes the entire process of Branding, Marketing & Sales.• Establishing the entire digital buying experience from the web.

Bengaluru, Singapore, Dubai

Worked as a consultant/contractor for a global clientele catering primarily to Banking and E-commerce.• User experience design and strategy for cross device and cross platform online home furnishings discovery and e-store called Design Owl.• Design and strategy for in-house banking applications with dynamic information for Cross-Device, Cross-Platform Applications for Cocoasmart.• Led, strategised and designed the Mobile Banking application design for Bank Muscat.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Led the most extensive user experience design project Trabliss from scratch, which is now aquired by Google.• Design, management & strategy of user experiences for multiple devices and platforms for a global clientele from the travel and hospitality industry.• Design and strategy for brands including brand identities and development of brand languages for digital and print.

Florida, Usa

Worked as a consultant to design identities and experiences for USA based companies and organisations.

Denison, Iowa, United States

Designed and executed Brand Identities, Packaging Design, Publication Design along with active participation in UX design projects.

Mumbai Area, India

Bachelor'S Degree, Graphic Design

Humanities/Humanistic Studies

Humanities