Staff Product Manager, Tekion
Accounting
$182.8-247.4k
+ Stock options
4 days a week in office (Pleasanton, CA)
Cloud-native platform for the automotive retail industry
Open for applications
Cloud-native platform for the automotive retail industry
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$182.8-247.4k
+ 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
- 8+ years of relevant work experience with at least 3 years as a product manager working with engineering and design teams
- Demonstrated track record of conceptualizing and launching scalable, user facing, B2B SaaS products
- Extensive experience with ERP applications in financial management including general ledger, payables, receivables, financial reporting, and controls
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills to effectively engage and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
- Leadership mindset with a talent for inspiring teams and solving complex problems innovatively
- Ability to work independently with a bias for action and an inclination to dive deep and execute on the product vision
Desirable
- Knowledge of dealership accounting and operations
- Experience working across geographies / time-zones
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent certification
What the job involves
- Tekion Automotive Retail Cloud connects all core operations of a dealership seamlessly. As a Staff Product Manager - Accounting, you will be responsible for financial products that CFOs, controllers, and accounting teams within dealerships use daily
- We empower our product teams to solve challenging customer and business problems in ways that delight our users
- You will take on a leadership role to drive innovation, define strategy, and execute initiatives that enhance our financial products
- Your insights will be instrumental in guiding cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional solutions in our quest to transform how the automotive industry operates
- Define product strategy maintain a prioritized roadmap that delivers maximum value to customers
- Be the voice of the customer: Actively engage end-users to develop a deep understanding of their objectives, workflows and pain-points
- Lead end-to-end product execution, from ideation and design to launch and continuous improvement
- Drive innovation and automation within dealerships’ financial management processes through market research and thought leadership
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, adjacent product teams, and GTM teams to bring new capabilities to life
- Create clear and comprehensive documentation to relay product requirements and expected outcomes to technical as well as non-technical stakeholders
- Build deep knowledge of the product functionality by leveraging internal resources and through hands-on use
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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