Tekion Corp is a company that is revolutionizing the automotive industry with its innovative cloud-native automotive platform. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to define and lead the vision and roadmap for their CRM platform, ensuring that customer needs are translated into actionable product requirements and delivering measurable business value.
Responsibilities:
- Partner to create a long-term product vision and strategy for the Automotive CRM portfolio
- Develop and communicate a clear product roadmap aligned with company objectives and customer needs
- Identify emerging trends in automotive retail, digital transformation, and CRM best practices to shape strategic initiatives
- Serve as the voice of the customer, ensuring dealer and partner feedback drives product priorities
- Build strong relationships with dealers and industry stakeholders to understand pain points, opportunities, and market shifts
- Translate customer insights into actionable product requirements
- Create and maintain product artifacts including BRDs, and ISDs, and internal and external-facing documentation
- Define native AI solutions that deliver new value to our customers and redefine the automotive CRM experience
- Lead discovery, business case development, and prioritization of new product initiatives
- Collaborate with product management, engineering, product architects, and data teams to deliver innovative and scalable CRM capabilities
- Define success metrics, monitor performance, and iterate to continuously improve product adoption and impact
- Stay current on automotive industry trends, certification requirements, competitive platforms, and regulatory developments affecting automotive retail technology
Requirements:
- 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years in an enterprise or B2B SaaS context managing integrations, APIs, or platform capabilities
- Deep automotive expertise with preferred experience in Automotive CRM
- Proven track record of defining and delivering successful SaaS or CRM product strategies
- Deep understanding of automotive retail, dealer operations, and OEM ecosystems
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and business case development skills
- Exceptional communication and storytelling abilities, with experience presenting and aligning with senior executives and external partners
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment with multiple priorities
- Hands-on expertise in building and applying LLM-driven capabilities to optimize CRM systems and marketing workflows
- Extensive experience optimizing CRM workflows and integrating marketing operations to drive campaign performance and customer engagement
- Demonstrated experience partnering directly with large enterprise customers or strategic partners in a client-facing product capacity
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentation and the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities across multiple partners and workstreams with minimal oversight
- Experience writing detailed product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams
- Comfort with data — able to define KPIs, interpret usage metrics, and use quantitative and qualitative signals to inform prioritization decisions
- Experience in either CRM Marketing, Service CRM, or CRM Lead Management
- Background in working with product-led and partner-led growth motions
- Exposure to AI-powered product features or data platform products
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree