Senior Product Manager, Tekion
$154.5-210k
Offers stock options
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
End-to-end, AI-native platform for automotive retail
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End-to-end, AI-native platform for automotive retail
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$154.5-210k
Offers stock options
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world's best business applications in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 5-7 years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, with direct exposure to professional services, customer success, or support tooling domains
- Post-Sales Domain Knowledge: Working understanding of PS delivery workflows, customer onboarding, CSM tooling, ticket management, SLA tracking, and escalation processes
- Technical Acumen: Strong ability to partner with engineering on system architecture, API integrations, and data flows. SQL familiarity or comfort working with data analysts to define KPIs and pull insights
- Execution & Ownership: Track record of driving product features end-to-end — from discovery to launch — with measurable outcomes and a bias for action
- Written & Verbal Communication: Strong documentation skills (PRDs, decision memos, stakeholder updates). Confident communicator across time zones with India-based teams and cross-functional teams
- Analytical Tools: Experience using JIRA, Confluence, Salesforce, or similar tools for backlog management, requirements tracking, and metric reporting
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Demonstrated effectiveness working in a matrixed global environment with engineering, design, operations, and senior leadership stakeholders
Desirable
- AI/ML Product Deployment: Experience shipping AI-powered features or workflow agents — such as LLM-based assistants, auto-classification systems, or intelligent routing — into enterprise product environments
- CIO / Internal Tools Experience: Prior experience building internal enterprise tooling in a product management capacity, especially for operations, delivery, or support teams at scale
- Platform Familiarity: Knowledge of platforms like Salesforce Service Cloud, Gainsight, Zendesk, ServiceNow, or low-code automation tools (e.g., UnifyApps) in a product or implementation context
- Automotive / DMS Domain: Exposure to automotive retail technology or DMS ecosystems is a plus but not required
- Agile Delivery: Hands-on Agile/Scrum experience — running standups, sprint reviews, backlog grooming — in a fast-paced engineering-integrated team
- Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline from a recognized institution — required
- MBA or equivalent management degree (PGDM accepted) from a recognized institution — required
- Certifications in AI/ML, Product Management (e.g., Product School, AIPMM), or Agile methodologies — preferred
What the job involves
- Product Roadmap Execution: Own the delivery roadmap for TOC initiatives across PS, CV, and Support. Break down strategic priorities into quarterly plans, sprints, and clearly scoped deliverables
- Requirements & Discovery: Conduct structured discovery with business stakeholders across PS, CS, and Support to document pain points, usage patterns, and workflow gaps. Translate insights into detailed PRDs and user stories
- AI & Workflow Automation: Identify and drive AI agent deployment opportunities — including intelligent ticket routing, PS delivery accelerators, and automated customer health signals — in close partnership with engineering
- Engineering Collaboration: Serve as the primary product interface for engineering squads. Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, clarify requirements, and sign off on acceptance criteria and QA
- Data & Metrics: Own product KPIs. Build dashboards in Databricks, Salesforce, or BI tools to monitor adoption, automation rates, and time-to-value across post-sales workflows
- Stakeholder Alignment: Coordinate with India-based product team and global business teams. Prepare clear written updates, roadmap reviews, and escalation briefs for senior leadership
- Tool & Platform Management: Manage backlog and feature lifecycle for internal tooling platforms. Contribute to decisions on third-party integrations and vendor-platform trade-offs relevant to the CIO portfolio
- Go-Live & Enablement: Support end-to-end product launches including UAT coordination, training material preparation, change communications, and adoption tracking post-release
Our take
Car dealerships suffer from an inefficiency problem. The paperwork and administration required to complete a sale requires dealers to manage a disjointed set of various software applications. Tekion is offering an enticing remedy - a cloud-based automotive retail system that integrates the various software applications in a single infrastructure.
Competition has been strong, with rivals CDK Global and Reynolds & Reynolds offering a competitive raft of features, and benefiting from strong prior relationships with dealerships. Tekion, however, has nevertheless secured customers for the software in 28 states - likely in part due to the efficiency of partnering with a single growing service as opposed to a disparate spread.
This momentum shows no signs of slowing either, as Tekion has attracted attention from major players like CMC, Chrysler and Chevrolet. By streamlining dealership operations into a single platform, the company is proving that even in a crowded market, innovation and simplicity can win. Its recent release of AI agents and an AI interface also shows it is moving with the times.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2024
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2021
$250m
SERIES D
Total funding: $635.1m
Company benefits
- Silicon Valley Startup Environment
- Stock Options
- Focus on Work/Life Balance
- Recognition Culture
- Health and Wellness
- Unparalleled Career Development
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Jay Vijayan
(CEO & Co-Founder)They started their career at Oracle, where they spent over 7 years in Management before spending 4 at VMware. They then worked at Tesla for 4 years, leaving their position as CIO to found Tekion in February 2016.
Guru Sankararaman
(COO & Co-Founder)After working as a Chief Architect at Cisco, they joined Tesla for 4 years. Initially they served as Director of Information Technology and then later became VP of Information Technology. Left this role to co-found Tekion in 2016.
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