Emre Tuncbilek
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Head of People, Culture and Happiness
London, England, United Kingdom
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Head of People, Culture and HappinessAppSamuraiMay 2018 - Current (8 years 5 months)App Samurai INC is a scale-up with 1 mission, 3 products (App Samurai, Interceptd, Storyly), 10 cities, and more than 60 Samurais around the world dedicated to making a revolutionary impact on mobile.
We are constantly hiring the brightest minds in the industry around the world. If you are one of the best at what you do, enjoy working with other people who create things, get things done without being micromanaged, enjoy working autonomously within small teams, then let's talk!- Co-FounderAmelos InteractiveDec 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 3 months)A self-publishing mobile free-to-play (f2p) games studio focusing on casual mobile games. It's a place with clear ambitious goals, iterative prototype and production cycles, strangely creative talent and a bunch of nano-drones flying around.
From initial prototype design to AI engine development, from soft-launch to performance marketing we are always in the all-hands-on-deck state. - People and Culture PartnerGolden Gate IONov 2016 - May 2018 (1 year 7 months)Dedicated to building and scaling up mobile media startups and mobile game studios.
I team up with co-founders to build a fun, scalable and investable company as an interim co-founder focused on alignment of people, culture, and the business model.
The primary principles are derived from the Lean Startup approach, Kanban, Scrum, OKRs, and Holacracy but the implementation is unique for each organization. The main purpose is to create an environment where a cross-disciplinary workflow feels like it's forming intuitively.
It's the hyper-growth StartupHR formula from Silicon Valley, adapted to specific market and talent conditions outside of the Valley.
The only prerequisite is to be curious and h - Chief People and Culture OfficerGram GamesSep 2015 - Nov 2016 (1 year 3 months)Acquired by Zynga, Gram Games is a mobile entertainment studio that had a significant part in invention of the hyper-casual genre of free to play (F2P) games.
Free-to-play (F2P) casual games require a special kind of creativity and culture. My mandate was to create the people and culture framework to scale up as the studio becomes a global enterprise for years to come.
We've adopted and iterated Objective Key Results (OKRs) framework to support our international growth while retaining our flat organizational structure and creative culture. This was achieved by a custom cultural design integrating different expectations from people in MENA, EMEA and the US. - Director of Talent ManagementSector Five Global Executive SearchAug 2011 - Sep 2015 (4 years 2 months)Based in Tokyo Japan with offices in Hawaii, California and Melbourne, Sector Five is a unique executive search and talent life-cycle consulting firm that specializes in cross-cultural technology, marketing and advertising executives in APAC, EMEA and the US.
- Salesforce CRM Analyst and Graduate Teaching AssistantHawaii Pacific UniversityJun 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 7 months)HPU is a non-profit university where I studied, taught courses as a teaching assistant, worked and later volunteered as an alumnus.
- TSales Planning AnalystTuncbilek ConsultingMar 2006 - May 2010 (4 years 3 months)
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- Master of Business Administration (M.B.A, Business AdministrationHawaii Pacific UniversityJan 2009 - Jan 2011 (2 years 1 month)
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- DDevelopment of HPU's First iPhone Application Concept
- CContributing Author at Hawaii Business MagazineWrote about various technology, trends and their impact on businesses in Hawaii, topics included social media marketing, non-profit marketing, gamification and business strategy.
http://blogs.hawaiibusiness.com/author/emre-tuncbilek/