Associate Principal People Business Partner, Tekion

Product and Engineering

$159.5-238.5k

Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office (Pleasanton, CA)

Tekion

End-to-end cloud native automotive platform

Be an early applicant

Tekion

End-to-end cloud native automotive platform

1001+ employees

RetailB2BCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

$159.5-238.5k

Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

5 days a week in office (Pleasanton, CA)

1001+ employees

RetailB2BCloud Computing

Company mission

To build the world's best business applications in the cloud.

Company mission

To build the world's best business applications in the cloud.

Top investors

25% employee growth in 12 months

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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Benefits

  • Stock Options
  • Silicon Valley Startup Environment
  • Focus on Work/Life Balance
  • Recognition Culture
  • Health and Wellness
  • Unparalleled Career Development

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jul 2024

$200m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Oct 2021

$250m

SERIES D

Total funding: $635.1m

This company has top investors

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.