
Thomas Fenrich
Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse
Werdegang
Berufserfahrung von Thomas Fenrich
- Bis heute 1 Jahr und 8 Monate, seit 2025
Fractional CPO & AI Advisor
(Fractional - Multiple)
Advising growth-stage and mid-market companies on product strategy, operating-model transformation, AI-enabled workflow redesign, and scale-up execution.
- 2020 - 2025
VP, Product Management and Chief Digital Officer
IKEA
Held dual remit as VP Product for US Growth and Acting CDO for US digital org, growing from 5 to ~200 FTEs across Product/Design, Engineering, Data/Analytics, plus Program/Release Management). Owned US digital P&L with ~$50M annual product/tech budget. Co-chaired US Digital Board, sat on Country Management and store retail boards. Scaled US digital revenue from ~$900M to ~$1.8B, grew channel from 11% to 28%; improved CVR from 0.76% to 2.4% (>3x), raised profit 300bps.
Senior product leader for Expedia Group’s Platform & Marketplaces Content portfolio with global remit across 70+ markets and consumer flagship brands (Expedia, Hotels.com, etc.); led the product team within a ~500-person portfolio, reporting to an SVP under the CPO. Delivered ~$90M in annual value; achieved up to 15%+ conversion rate uplift across key journeys, with sustained improvements on SERP, PDP, ranking, filtering, and ads surfaces.
- 2014 - 2018
VP, Product Management - Head of Media Solutions (Watson Cloud)
The Weather Company (An IBM Watson Business)
Led growth execution at global consumer scale for Weather’s Media Solutions, reaching 200M+ MAUs and increasing international share from <10% to ~50% of traffic with eight-figure P&L, lifting international organic revenue from <3% to ~12%+ of the portfolio (up to 170%+ YoY growth; 3% → 11% operating margin) with EMEA/Latam partnership rev share. Built operating model for scale (170+ locales), creating configurable platform capabilities and repeatable deployment processes, reducing per-market cost 85%.
- 2013 - 2013
Director of Product Management - Enterprise
Rosetta Stone
Established a product team for development of cloud-based learning content platform and mobile apps for commercial enterprise deployments in shift from on-prem to SaaS subscriptions to grow B2B revenue from 8% to 20% to ~$55M.
- 2010 - 2013
Sr. Manager, Product Management – Marketing Infrastructure, Events Platform
Salesforce
Led product teams for Salesforce's marketing lead automation infrastructure and Events Platform: $2B+ lead attribution, 150%+ attendance growth. Managed two-sided marketplace ISV partner-onboarding technology program.
Developed cloud-based content infrastructure and publishing product platform on Hadoop employing ML for categorization, ranking, image recognition, personalization, for 700M+ MAUs across 20+ markets, with rev of ~$200M.
- 2003 - 2004
Consultant, Corporate Communications and Marketing
Symantec
Led international development for CMS implementation and redesign of corporate website providing new marketing, publishing, personalization, and search capabilities for over 20 markets.
Led engineering group of ~50 in web development, content management, and localization for company’s 20+ web properties and marketing sites.
Sprachen
Englisch
C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)
Deutsch
C1 (Fließend)
Französisch
C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)
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