About Tekion:
Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.
About the Role
We are seeking a dynamic Manager/Lead PM, Product to lead product strategy and development of CDP (Customer Data Platform). You will drive our product vision for Customer Data Platform (CDP). As a senior leader, you will champion collaboration and influence cross-functional teams to deliver customer centric solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- CDP Roadmap & Vision: Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our CDP, aligned to company goals and customer needs.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with Engineering, Data Science, Sales, Customer Success, and external partners to ensure alignment and effective delivery.
- Voice of the Customer: Deeply understand user personas (dealers/OEMs), pain points, data workflows, and market trends to inform product decisions.
- Product Design & Requirements: Translate market/user insights into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for development teams.
- Data Governance & Compliance: Ensure CDP meets security, privacy, and regulatory (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) requirements.
- Performance Measurement: Define KPIs, monitor adoption, and iterate to deliver measurable business and customer value.
- Go-to-Market: Collaborate in launch, enablement, and success of new features with Marketing, Sales, and Support.
- Team Leadership: Mentor and guide associate/junior product managers.
Qualifications:
- Experience: 7+ years in SaaS product management, with 3+ years leading CDP, CRM, or data infrastructure products (Automotive SaaS strongly preferred).
- Expertise: Deep understanding of CDP concepts: identity resolution, data integration, segmentation, analytics, data privacy, API ecosystems.
- Technical Acumen: Adept at working with data teams (ETL, data lakes, cloud platforms) and understanding technical tradeoffs.
- Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with automotive retail/OEM data flows, dealership management systems (DMS) is a plus.
- Stakeholder Management: Proven track record interfacing with customers, sales, and engineering teams.
- Communication: Exceptional communication, presentation, and documentation skills.
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience with product-led growth (PLG) models.
- Background in B2B enterprise SaaS platforms.
- Prior experience with scaling data products in regulated industries.
Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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What We Do
At Tekion, we believe that business applications don’t have to be boring. In fact, they should be simple, fun and cool! They should be as delightful to use as your favorite social or consumer application, yet powerful enough to seamlessly and efficiently run global businesses that provide unparalleled consumer experience without compromise.
Founded by visionary entrepreneur and innovator Jay Vijayan, we are building the world’s best business applications on the cloud starting with the automotive retail industry. We inherently use cutting-edge technologies like big data, machine learning/AI, and human computer interaction (voice, touch, vision, sensors and IoT). We are inventing new technology along the way to overcome barriers and solve big problems, all while having a blast doing it!
Our flagship product offering, Automotive Retail Cloud ™- an industry-first cloud-native retail platform, including all functionalities of a Dealer Management System (DMS) launched recently.
