Sriram Varun Vobilisetty
Studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Works at Glean
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About Sriram Varun
Varun Vobilisetty is a Stanford GSB MBA (Class of 2026) and Product Manager at Glean, joining the enterprise admin team full-time after interning there during business school. Before GSB, he built and scaled Samsung's Bixby voice assistant from 100M to 200M users. Before that, he founded and grew the Robotics Club at IIT Kanpur into a world-championship-level humanoid robotics team — his first real lesson in turning ambitious ideas into working systems under pressure. At GSB, he leaned further into the intersection of AI and enterprise product, building several projects, while taking coursework in AI strategy and entrepreneurship. He's also spent his final year deeply embedded in the Stanford AI community — co-organizing Hack-Nation, a global AI hackathon spanning thousands of participants across multiple hubs, and hosting speaker sessions with leaders from Anthropic, Replit, and Glean.
Why do I coach?
I got into GSB because people coached me — read rough drafts, asked questions I hadn't asked myself, and pushed me to explain not just what I'd done but why it mattered. That changed the trajectory of my career, and I've wanted to pay it forward ever since. One of my mentors at Stanford, Professor Graham Weaver, first made the case to me that coaching is a skill, not just a gift — which is part of why I took a class on professional coaching at GSB to actually learn the craft instead of winging it. Coaching applicants is also how I keep that muscle in shape. Helping someone figure out what's actually distinctive in their story, then building the clearest path to communicate it, is product work in a different medium — same instinct, different canvas.
Work Experience
AI Product Manager
Glean
July 2026 - Present
Founding Product Manager
Allen digital
May 2023 - April 2024
Hiring Manager
Transforming access to digital learning in India - Steering the launch of ALLEN's next-gen education platform aiming to enhance learning experiences and outcomes of over 50M K-12 students across India. User Stories, User-centered Design and +6 skills
Product Manager
Samsung Electronics
June 2022 - May 2023
Driving the global expansion of Bixby, Samsung's AI voice assistant. - Led the feature development of Bixby Voice Shortcuts. - Responsible for steering collaborative development of flagship features among teams from 3 countries. Product Innovation, Generative AI and +8 skills
Software Engineer II
Samsung Electronics
October 2020 - June 2022
Built Bixby's Hint recommendation microservice to suggest personalized utterance suggestions to users to control devices in their smart home. Developed a prototype virtual device to automate testing on the Bixby Home Platform, eliminating manual testing on real devices. Refactored and optimized the internal 'voice intent' representation framework for Bixby. Reduced redundancy by 45%, saving hundreds in work-hours. SQL, Internet of Things (IoT) and +9 skills
Developer
Learning A-Z
June 2020 - October 2020
Taught introductory programming to 10,000+ high-schoolers and university students. Created 30+ video lectures, presentations and assignments for "Introduction to Progamming in C" available on Great Learning. Project Management and C (Programming Language)
Tech Intern
CampK12
May 2020 - October 2020
Taught 50+ K-12 students industry-relevant skills through block-based programming. - Developed interactive teaching methodologies benefitting 25,000+ K-12 students learning online during COVID-19. - Facilitated creation of 200+ innovative projects ranging from building a calculator to interactive AR games. - Awarded "Teaching excellence award" among 150+ educators across India. Project Management
Founder's Office Intern
IBHubs
November 2019 - December 2019
Worked at founder's office to ideate and protoype a new feature for IB Cricket - the world's most immersive VR cricket. Trained a deep learning model that takes in a user's selfie to generate a 3D face avatar to use for the character in-game. Mobile Application Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and +2 skills
Sriram Varun was also given offers to work at
Samsung Electronics
Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
MBA, Business Management
2024 - 2026
Arjay Miller Scholar (Top 10% of the class)
Aalto University
Exchange Studies, Computer Science
2019 - 2019
Grade: 3.5 Lead - Exchange students relations, ESN
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science
2016 - 2020
Grade: CGPA 9.5/10 (Distinction) Activities and societies: • Senior Executive, Entrepreneurship Cell • Secretary, Robotics Club • Core Team, Humanoid robotics team • Teaching Assistant for Fundamentals of Computing (Nov 2019 - Mar 2020) • Academic Mentor (May 2017 - Apr 2020) 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 (Top 5% in 900) for 𝟑 consecutive years
Sriram Varun was also personally admitted to
Tuck School of Business
MIT Sloan
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