Senior Product Solutions Marketing Manager, Tekion
$112.6-165.5k
Cloud-native platform for the automotive retail industry
Open for applications
Cloud-native platform for the automotive retail industry
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$112.6-165.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world's best business applications in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience in product marketing or solutions marketing, preferably in SaaS or the automotive industry
- Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Proven track record of driving successful marketing initiatives
- Ability to interpret data and market research for strategic decision-making
- Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills
Desirable
- Experience in automotive retail solutions or cloud platforms
- Proficiency in marketing automation and analytics tools
- Strong problem-solving and project management abilities
- Background in managing marketing budgets and optimizing ROI
What the job involves
- The Senior Product Solutions Marketing Manager is responsible for using their extensive automotive and product marketing experience to strategically define and communicate the value created by Tekion.
- This role will work closely with cross-functional teams, providing thought leadership and driving growth initiatives. The individual will report to the Senior Manager, Product Solutions Marketing
- Develop and oversee strategic product marketing plans to drive adoption and growth
- Partner with cross-functional teams to align marketing initiatives with business goals
- Manage end-to-end go-to-market strategies and lead product launch efforts
- Analyze market trends, competitive landscape, and customer insights to optimize positioning
- Mentor and guide team members, fostering collaboration and innovation
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 automative 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 benefitting 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. The company is sparking interest from the right places too, with partners including GMC, Chrysler, and Chevrolet.
If the founders can leverage their experience at Tesla in improving efficiency, the system could prove a highly competitive newcomer with real potential for global spread. A reduction in processing time and paperwork is a hard proposition for dealerships to refuse.
Freddie
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
- Competitive compensation and generous stock options
- 100% employer-paid top-of-the-line medical, dental and vision coverage
- Great benefits including unlimited PTO, parental leave and free snacks and beverages
- The opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds from the Silicon Valley’s most dominant and successful companies
- Be part of an early stage, hyper-growth startup with the opportunity to grow and prosper
- Work on the latest and coolest technologies – everything is home-grown and built ground-up
- Dynamic work environment with a strong sense of community and collaboration
- Open and transparent culture that encourages innovation, rewards performance and discourages hierarchy
- Exciting opportunities for career growth and development
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Jay Vijayan
(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
(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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