Hi there, my name is

TAMÁS SZABÓ

(pronounced [ˈtɒmaːʃ ˈsɒboː])

I am a product manager with diverse experience who also created a profitable software business from scratch.

I am open to new opportunities in Vienna, Austria.

Experience

  • Product Manager

    Lensa

    May 2025 - Present

    • Owning product strategy for two key growth areas: traffic acquisition and the job recommendation engine.

    • Managing and mentoring two Product Owners as direct reports, coaching them on team leadership and product delivery.

    • Overseeing how Product Owners manage their respective cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

  • Technical Product Owner

    Crossover

    Oct 2024 - May 2025

    • Acting as the Product Manager for the talent sourcing and screening platform, overseeing changes and improvements.

    • Managed sourcing processes, including vendor selection and advertising platforms.

    • Directed the optimization of Google Ads campaigns, sourcing 20% of high-quality applicants.

    • Led the creation of the mobile version of the AI Interview Bot, achieving a 50% increase in pass rates for that segment.

    • Designed and oversaw the development of new solutions on the Salesforce platform to enhance business operations.

  • Founder

    Smart Oxen Tech

    Jun 2021 - Apr 2023

    • Built a software business that gained great traction and served over 200 accountants who paid monthly subscription fees.

    • Focused on customer acquisition and making small but meaningful product additions.

    • Explored the possibilities of utilizing SEO, Google Ads and Facebook Ads to grow a software product's audience

    • Sold this software company to a leading competitor.

  • Product Owner

    Lensa

    Dec 2018 - May 2021

    • Worked on nearly the entire stack of the job board system.

    • Increased conversion on landing pages (AB tests)

    • Optimized the job seeker matching engine

    • Conducted technical SEO-related experiments, optimizing for Google Jobs

    • Job posting acquisition system building from the ground up

    • Information extraction from job postings for better matching and searchability

    • Worked closely with the R&D team to discover new opportunities and turn the findings into scalable, reliable parts of the system

  • Product Owner / Project Manager

    Apertus Nonprofit

    May 2016 - Nov 2018

    • Largest project managed: building a learning management system for a postgraduate specialist training course for public servants from the ground up in 5 months, leading a 15-person team in cooperation with the National University of Public Service.

    • Built a content management system to manage 20 websites simultaneously

    • Created and maintained a system for faculty performance evaluation system

  • IT System Analyst

    Atoll Technologies

    Oct 2014 - Apr 2016

    • Contributed to diverse client projects across industries, focusing on business processes and software configuration.

    • Assisted project managers by reviewing requirement specifications.

    • Introduced CMDB solutions for large companies, including UPC, ERSTE, Vodafone, and Magyar Telekom:

    - Conducted interviews with service owners.

    - Facilitated business process changes to maintain datasets.

    - Configured software to meet specific client needs.

    • Tested new developments on the K&H insurance portal.

Blog

Sometimes I write about the parts of the job that don't come with a playbook: the decisions, trade-offs, and occasional dysfunction that shape how products actually get built.

Via Negativa: The Case for Subtracting Your Way to a Better Product by Tamás Szabó

Read on Substack

The Beginnings of My Accidental Entrepreneur Journey by Tamás Szabó

Read on Substack

Security Research

I occasionally do bug bounty hunting on the side, looking for security vulnerabilities in real-world products and reporting them responsibly.

It keeps me close to the technical side of software and gives me a different perspective on how products break in unexpected ways.