Director of Technical Program Management, Tekion
$202.4-269.9k
+ Stock options
4+ days a week in office (Pleasanton, CA)
Cloud-native platform for the automotive retail industry
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Cloud-native platform for the automotive retail industry
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$202.4-269.9k
+ Stock options
4+ days a week in office (Pleasanton, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world's best business applications in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a forward-thinking leader with deep experience in program leadership, team development, and delivering technical outcomes at scale
- 12+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, or product delivery, including 5+ years in leadership roles
- Proven track record of building and leading TPM teams in high-growth SaaS or enterprise environments
- Strong understanding of system architecture, software engineering processes, agile frameworks, and program governance
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational change management skills
- Experience influencing C-level stakeholders and driving cross-functional consensus
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced certifications (e.g., PMP, PgMP, SAFe) preferred
What the job involves
- The Director, Technical Program Management leads the vision, strategy, and execution of Tekion’s technical program management function. This role is responsible for driving cross-functional alignment, scaling TPM processes, and enabling the successful delivery of mission-critical initiatives across the company
- As a key leader, the Director partners with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and executive stakeholders to ensure operational excellence and strategic execution
- Own the strategy, structure, and leadership of the Technical Program Management organization across multiple business and product areas
- Lead the delivery of enterprise-wide programs with cross-functional scope, including architecture modernization, product launches, infrastructure scale, and compliance
- Drive standardization of program frameworks, governance, metrics, and tools to ensure consistent and scalable execution
- Partner with senior leadership across Product, Engineering, Security, and Business Operations to align priorities and drive accountability
- Build and mentor a high-performing team of TPMs, supporting their development and execution capacity
- Communicate program status, risks, and outcomes to executive leadership, driving visibility and stakeholder alignment
- Champion continuous improvement, agility, and innovation in program delivery
- Job Complexity: Oversees the execution of highly complex, cross-functional technical programs with strategic business impact
- Required Supervision: Operates with full independence; accountable for TPM function vision, performance, and alignment with company goals
- Expertise: Enterprise-level expert in technical delivery, program governance, and stakeholder leadership; sets operational standards for program success
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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