Associate Principal Program Delivery Manager, Tekion
$176.6-294.3k
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Office located in Torrance, 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
$176.6-294.3k
More information about location
Office located in Torrance, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world's best business applications in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience; a master’s degree is preferred
- 8+ years of experience managing complex, large-scale programs, including leadership roles within PMOs or consulting experience with top-tier firms (e.g., Big 5)
- Demonstrated success in leading programs with significant technical and strategic complexity
- Exceptional client-facing and internal communication skills, including experience influencing senior and executive leadership
- Proven ability to manage multiple large-scale projects simultaneously while maintaining a high standard of quality and governance
- Strong technical acumen, with the ability to bridge communication between technical teams and business stakeholders
Desirable
- Deep expertise in the OEM and/or Automotive industry is highly desirable
- Experience leading globally distributed cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions
- Expertise in leveraging data-driven decision-making and quantitative analysis for prioritization and strategy development
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and define actionable paths to resolution
- Exceptional leadership skills, including stakeholder management, team mentoring, and conflict resolution
- Extensive experience with the Scaled Agile Framework, Scrum practices, and facilitating multi-team planning and execution
- Proven success in managing large-scale technical releases, including UAT planning, dependency tracking, and coordinating deployment activities
- Strong accountability, integrity, and a track record of delivering measurable results
What the job involves
- At Tekion, OEM Partner Implementation has continued to grow at an accelerated pace, requiring expanded leadership within our PMO organization
- As a Associate Principal Program Delivery Manager at the P6 level, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing complex, high-impact
- OEM partner implementations, driving strategic initiatives, and enhancing program governance
- This position requires strong leadership skills to influence cross-functional teams, senior executives, and external partners, ensuring seamless delivery of Tekion’s business objectives
- Serve as a strategic advisor and partner with the Business Development team to design and execute comprehensive program implementation roadmaps
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to align program strategies with product goals, ensuring timely delivery and effective communication with OEM partners and senior executives
- Provide leadership to Implementation teams to drive success in dealer onboarding and scalability across programs
- Act as the primary escalation point for program challenges, driving resolution in alignment with Tekion’s strategic goals
- Communicate effectively with senior leadership and executive stakeholders to present program updates, risks, and critical decisions
- Design and implement advanced governance frameworks, fostering efficiency, transparency, and accountability across all programs
- Mentor and guide PMO team members, fostering professional growth and capability development
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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