Senior Product Manager- Post-Sales Platform & AI Automation

Tekion Corporation; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous stock options

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Snacks and beverages

Job summary

Tekion Corporation is seeking an experienced Product Manager to own the delivery roadmap for TOC initiatives across professional services, customer success, and support. You will lead discovery with cross-functional stakeholders, drive AI agent deployment, and collaborate with engineering on APIs, data flows, and KPI dashboards.

You will own end-to-end product features, align stakeholders across time zones, and enable successful go-lives with UAT and training materials.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline from a recognized institution is required.
• MBA or equivalent management degree from a recognized institution is required.
• Certifications in AI/ML, Product Management, or Agile methodologies are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery roadmap for TOC initiatives across PS, CV, and Support with quarterly plans and sprints.
• Conduct structured discovery with business stakeholders to document pain points, usage, and workflow gaps and translate into PRDs and user stories.
• Identify and drive AI agent deployment opportunities in partnership with engineering.
• Serve as primary product interface for engineering squads and facilitate sprint planning and acceptance criteria.
• Own product KPIs and build dashboards to monitor adoption and time-to-value across post-sales workflows.
• Coordinate with India-based product team and global business teams; prepare updates and escalation briefs for senior leadership.
• Manage backlog and feature lifecycle for internal tooling platforms and vendor-platform trade-offs for CIO portfolio.
• Support end-to-end product launches including UAT and adoption tracking post-release.

Skills

Agile Delivery

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Written & Verbal Communication

Data-Driven Decision Making

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline

MBA or equivalent management degree

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Salesforce

Salesforce Service Cloud

Gainsight

Zendesk

ServiceNow

UnifyApps

Job description

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.

Key Role & Responsibilities

Product Roadmap Execution:Own the delivery roadmap forTOCinitiatives across PS, CV, and Support. Break down strategic priorities into quarterly plans, sprints, and clearly scoped deliverables.

Requirements & Discovery:Conduct structured discovery with business stakeholders across PS, CS, and Support to document pain points, usage patterns, and workflow gaps. Translate insights into detailed PRDs and user stories.

AI & Workflow Automation:Identifyand drive AI agent deployment opportunities — including intelligent ticket routing, PS delivery accelerators, and automated customer health signals — in close partnership with engineering.

Engineering Collaboration:Serve as the primary product interface for engineering squads. Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming,clarifyrequirements, and sign off on acceptance criteria and QA.

Data & Metrics:Own product KPIs. Build dashboards in Databricks, Salesforce, or BI tools tomonitoradoption, automation rates, and time-to-value across post-sales workflows.

Stakeholder Alignment:Coordinate withIndia-based productteamand global business teams. Prepare clear written updates, roadmap reviews, and escalation briefs for senior leadership.

Tool & Platform Management:Manage backlog and feature lifecycle for internal tooling platforms. Contribute to decisions on third-party integrations and vendor-platform trade-offs relevant to the CIO portfolio.

Go-Live & Enablement:Support end-to-end product launches including UAT coordination, training material preparation, change communications, and adoption tracking post-release.

Basic Qualifications

Experience:5-7 yearsof product management experience in B2B SaaS, with direct exposure to professional services, customer success, orsupporttooling domains.

Post-Sales Domain Knowledge:Working understanding of PS delivery workflows, customer onboarding, CSM tooling, ticket management, SLA tracking, and escalation processes.

Technical Acumen:Strong ability to partner with engineering on system architecture, API integrations, and data flows. SQL familiarity or comfort working with data analysts to define KPIs and pull insights.

Execution & Ownership:Track record of driving product features end-to-end — from discovery to launch — with measurable outcomes and a bias for action.

Written & Verbal Communication:Strong documentation skills (PRDs, decision memos, stakeholder updates). Confident communicator across time zones withIndia-basedteamsand cross-functional teams.

Analytical Tools:Experience using JIRA, Confluence, Salesforce, or similar tools for backlog management, requirements tracking, and metric reporting.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:Demonstratedeffectiveness working in a matrixed global environment with engineering, design, operations, and senior leadership stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

AI/ML Product Deployment:Experience shipping AI-powered features or workflow agents — such as LLM-based assistants, auto-classification systems, or intelligent routing — into enterprise product environments.

CIO / Internal Tools Experience:Prior experience building internal enterprise tooling in a product management capacity, especially for operations, delivery, or support teams at scale.

Platform Familiarity:Knowledge of platforms like Salesforce Service Cloud, Gainsight, Zendesk, ServiceNow, or low-code automation tools (e.g.,UnifyApps) in a product or implementation context.

Automotive / DMS Domain:Exposure to automotive retail technology or DMS ecosystems is a plus but notrequired.

Agile Delivery:Hands-on Agile/Scrum experience — running standups, sprint reviews, backlog grooming — in a fast-paced engineering-integrated team.

Education: Bachelor’s or master’sdegree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline from a recognized institution —required.

MBA or equivalent management degree (PGDM accepted) from a recognized institution —required.

Certifications in AI/ML, Product Management (e.g., Product School, AIPMM), or Agile methodologies — preferred.

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 Silicon Valley’s most dominant andsuccessful companies

Be part of an early stage, hyper-growth start-up with the opportunity to grow and prosper

Work on the latest and coolest technologies – everything is home-grown and built ground-up

A dynamic work environment with a strong sense of community and collaboration

The open and transparent culture that encourages innovation, rewards performance and discourages hierarchy

Exciting opportunities for career growth and development

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