Senior Product Manager, Tekion
$190.8k
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
End-to-end cloud native automotive platform
Job no longer available
End-to-end cloud native automotive platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$190.8k
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world's best business applications in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- MS in Human-Computer Interaction or closely related field
- 2 years of experience in similar duties emphasizing product management, user research, requirement gathering and analysis, developing and revising system designs
What the job involves
- Conduct user research with automotive dealerships to understand the nature of their business workflows and the requirements necessary to streamline them by creating protocols and implementing research studies, such as interviews, contextual inquiries, analysis of secondary data, etc
- Conduct market research on competitive products to identify key market gaps and opportunities
- Leverage the information gathered through research to translate users’ business requirements into product requirements to create workflows, wireframes, and prototypes to explore different solutions for the business problems
- Convert the product requirements and designs into Software Requirement Specifications (SRS)
- Produce reports for the leadership team summarizing business intelligence data and technology trends to make recommendations for business strategy
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 over both dealers and industry partners.
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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
(Co-Founder & CEO)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
(Co-Founder & COO)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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