CDK is looking for highly technical Product Manager who has successfully led agile teams to deliver software and technology solutions. As the Product Manager for Vehicle Service, you will define the roadmap and manage execution of deliverables for our suite of products for automotive dealers and

technology partners. In that role, you will collaborate with teams and other stakeholders to ensure consistent and continuous delivery of value to customers.

As a member of the Vehicle Service Product Management team, the Product Manager will actively engage customers and other external & internal stakeholders to identify opportunities, set priorities, and manage a roadmap that achieves business and market objectives by increasing

addressable market and delighting customers.

The ideal candidate for this role has a background in enterprise software, strong technical and

business acumen, and ability to transform high level market needs into actionable requirements (user

stories).

Position Responsibilities & Essential functions

• Manage the entire product lifecycle, from planning & definition through development, launch, and retirement phases.
• Gather functional requirements from business stakeholders, collaborate with project team members to identify feature details and document specifications.
• Create, maintain and communicate the product roadmap for your product offerings.
• Author epics (big ideas), creating user stories and leading the sprint team ceremonies, which include daily stand-ups, planning sessions and working with your sprint teams to decompose user stories into development tasks.
• Identify market needs and maintain awareness of competitor offerings in order to articulate the associated business opportunities.
• Define solutions to meet the market need and create the business case justification for pursuing such initiatives. Create a compelling value proposition for your products and initiatives.
• Manage the development backlog for your sprint teams including authoring stories, managing grooming sessions, helping lead sprint team planning sessions, and running stand-up meetings, showcases and retrospective ceremonies enabling efficient and productive development efforts.
• Work as a key member of a Launch Team to coordinate all activities required to prepare the product for a successful launch including development and execution of launch plan.
• Collaborate with Business Unit leadership to understand and plan the operational requirements associated with launching and supporting your product including all activities required for service and IT/IS readiness.

Qualifications & Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or Engineering.
• Five years of Product Management and/or Product Planning experience.
• Previous experience in a Commercial Software, Systems, or Online Services company in a SaaS, Cloud leading-edge environment.
• Detail, action, and process oriented to drive projects and initiatives to completion.
• Ability to interact with customers to listen, organize, and champion projects.
• Proven ability to simplify inherently complex concepts and plan solutions necessary to iteratively address market needs.
• Excellent inter-personal skills with ability to negotiate and persuade team members and key decision makers.
• Strong track record of client collaboration and market assessment.
• Demonstrated record of turning ideas into realities.
• Exceptionally strong written and verbal communications with a strong aptitude for succinctly presenting thoughts and ideas to senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to listen and consider the points of view of others, collaborate and build consensus within cross-functional areas.
• Ability to effectively multi-task in a deadline driven atmosphere.
• Highly motivated 'go-getter' who is driven to achieve business results with the ability to remain positive and focused on moving forward, regardless of obstacles.
• Travel 15% of time to meet with customers and business partners.

• Experience working in an Agile software development environment, and with Agile tools such as Jira and TFS a plus.
• Knowledge of the automotive industry, dealership environment or product marketing area.
• Solid project management experience/skills.
• Experience in collaborating with offshore agile teams.

Compensation: $110,000 - $140,000

CDK Global is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Compensation packages are based on several factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, certifications, and work location. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.We offer Medical, dental, and vision benefits in addition to:

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401K Matching Program
• Tuition Reimbursement

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