Tamás Boldog Email & Phone Number

Budapest, Hungary

Together with 8 other Product Manager, 3 Product Areas and 8 Product Engineering teams we are responsible for all Data and Intelligence related at Emarsys.

Budapest, Hungary

My goal at Emarsys is to help us yet again distrust the online marketing industry both by having a world-class product organisation as well as having a strong product strategy.Being one of the Product Area Director I am responsible for the strategical direction of an area focusing on Data management and the impact of 4 teams in the area. 4 teams, who are led by 3 Product Managers reporting to me. Next to these 4 teams and the area, I am also leading one other team as a Product Manager, who is working on one of the strategical elements of Emarsys data management.

Budapest

- Lead 2 squads built up from different disciplines (Engineering, UX, Marketing, Data, Product) to align with the higher level goals and other teams plans- Continuously set up the direction for these squads to maximise their impact on travellers- Create and run squad's strategy, value milestones (Roadmap), experiments.- Run and improve reporting inside the tribe around OKRs, and help squads to align toward company OKRs.Tranformation:- Combined Search: Merge 3 verticals into one combined search flow to 3x flight to hotel cross sell on mobile web and apps.0 -> 1 products:- Price Prediction: Help low intent users to retain better (3x push subscription), and increase booking rate for high intent users- User Generated Content: Build up a Tripadvisor like review feature inside the Skyscanner app, based on an acquired product and stack to validate (and disprove) that such a vertical can help improve app retention.- Branch.io integration to boost app acquisition by utilising the mobile web traffic.Redesign:- New Brand adaptation: Rebrand the App and apply sparkles, to achieve a successful lunch of a new brand leading toward App store highlights, Press highlights without any harm to app metrics.- New App Profile: Refresh the look and feel of the profile section leading toward better value proposition for creating an account. 2 digit increase in both signup and login rate.- Android Search header redesign: UX improvements on the Flight search headr leading toward an increased booking rate. Experimentation leading toward new goals being funded, some examples:- Recent Searches: Increase funnel conversion, by making it simple to access and continue last searches.- Personalised App onboard and deep-linking: Tooling for app deeplingking and experiment with a personalised app onboarding.- Cross linking flight and hotels: to prove that users do need flight and hotel results before making a booking

Budapest

30 people, 3 squads, 1 site -> 100 people, 10 Squads, 4 locations around the EU:Integrate an app development team after an acquisition from a culture and process PoV.Grow the team in Budapest as well as create new app development teams on other sites to distribute and scale app development.Company level- Create a Tribe Operation Cookbook a guideline for effective tribe operation.- Develop and deliver company wide Lean and Agile trainings.- Present on meetups and conferences.- Work on System level solutions. (example: engineering vacancy process for the company)- Project Management for bigger projects. (example: Company Update)Tribe level- Being responsible for Tribe Operation.- Create and maintain planning and delivery processes to help autonomy and accountability.- Facilitate leadership discussions. (example 2 day Product Manager Offsite)- Facilitate bottom-up initiatives. (example: Agile Guild)- Facilitate company-level initiatives on the tribe level. (example Engineering Principles)Squad (Team) level:- Work together with teams to continuously improve. (interim Scrum Master, interim squad lead)- Maintain a high level of team health by continuous evaluation and actions.- Coach and Mentor teams and team leads toward a more effective work environment.- Facilitate Squads start and restarts.Personal level:- Teaching Agile and Lean based values and practices, by holding workshops.- Mentoring Scrum Masters, Squad Leads, Product Owners and Squad Members.- Coaching people.- Help other Agile Coaches to solve the challenges they face, and to improve.- Help line managers to become better people managers.

My role was a mixture of Agile Team Leader, Delivery Manager and Agile Coach. I was responsible for two development teams, but I was also leading the whole product development team by influence. I was also taking part in company level decisions.As an Agile Team Leader / Scrum Master:- Coordinate a product development department (30 people) by influence and examples- Help in team to team collaboration, and conflict handling in a distributed location product development team- Help to make our product development transparent, by communicating progress, and reporting- Be a team leader for different teams like: Devops, System Test, Core feature development, Low level linux development and networking, and product security- Lead meetings: Backlog refinements, Feature plannings, Sprint plannings, Team Retrospectives, Daily Standups, Reviews- Be a Shiled for my teams, to protect them from unnececery interruptions and stress- Be the line manager of the team members- Give teammate reviews by collecting team member thoughts, and also by organising review meetings for the team, to develop each others- Hold face to face meeting for team members- Mentoring, Career Coaching the team members- Help in motivation of the team, and the members- Organise Team Buildings- Hold agile trainings for the team members- Support the recruitmentAs an Agile Coach:- Facilitating company level Agile Improvement Community- Help to crate and implement company Mission-Vision-Culture- Facilitating management level retrospectives - Struggling against becoming slow, inefficient, bureaucratic company while it dynamically grows- Take part in creating, implementing, and using evaluation methodologies- Organising Hachkaton, and other challenges- Help other teams, and leadersAs a Project manager:- Internal project management like introduction of JIRA (100 people, 5 department)

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Bsc, Economy And Management

Bsc + Msc, Computer Science And Engineering