Senior Product Manager

Company: CDK
Location: San Jose
Posted on: February 16, 2020

Job Description:

Job DescriptionPower the Possibilities The CDK Global technology team is looking for collaborative innovators who are passionate about making their mark on emerging enterprise software products. We're building and developing cloud technology for the automotive retail industry that will change the landscape for automotive dealers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the customers they serve. Be Part of Something Bigger Each year, more than three percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) is attributed to the auto industry, which flows through our customer, the auto dealer. It's time you joined an evolving marketplace where research and development investment is measured in the tens of billions. It's time you were a part of something bigger. We're expanding our workforce - engineers, architects, developers and more - onboarding early adopters who can optimize, pivot and keep pace with ever-evolving development roadmaps and applications. Join Our Team Growth potential, flexibility and material impact on the success and quality of a next-gen, enterprise software product make CDK an excellent choice for those who thrive in challenging, fast-paced engineering environments. The possibilities for impact are endless. We have exceptional opportunities to evolve our industry by driving change through new technology. If you're ready for high-impact, you're ready for CDK. This is a great time to join CDK Global with highly motivated teams to build industry changing platform for the automotive industry. Fortellis Automotive Commerce Exchange™ platform, a technology engine that enables seamless connections and greater collaboration to occur among everyone involved in serving automobile consumers, such as dealers, manufacturers, software developers, lenders and data providers. Fortellis is growing and expanding. We are looking for senior product manager for the platform. This person will work closely with internal and external teams to create platform roadmap, toplan what the teams will deliver and the timeline for implementation, to prioritize features by ranking them against the strategic goals and initiatives, to coordinate and interact with both internal and external customers, OEMs, ISVs and dealers. This is both strategic and tactical leadership position with innovation and execution mindset. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and leading the day-to-day efforts in executing the strategic technology vision. This position may require certain amount of travel. This position is based on San Jose, CA Key Responsibilities: * Create and maintain, in close collaboration with other team members, internal and external strategies and roadmaps for Fortellis platform. Work closely with a variety of stakeholders and cross functional teams to execute the roadmap by planning and prioritizing objectively. * Conduct research in collaboration with other CDK product teams, marketing teams and industry advisors to recommend new platform offerings and/or enhancements to current solutions. Identify technical and feature functional gaps based on overall platform goals and create a plan to meet those needs. * Meet regularly with all other product management peers and technology leads to gather requirements and identify robust, scalable secure platform solutions. * Work with sales and marketing teams to present the platform vision and features to potential customers and help promote the open platform mindset within the ecosystem. * Elicit, capture, analyze, refine and document business requirements and help engineering team to build user stories. Evolve as the voice of the customer to the agile scrum teams, articulate product expectations for product. Own, maintain, and prioritize the agile product backlog. * Convene and lead technical discussions with engineering as part of articulating and refining requirements and understanding engineering realities. * Other duties pertinent to product management as assigned. QUALIFICATIONS Basic Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, with 3-5 years of experience working in software product management. * Previous experience (2+ year) working with platform technologies in the support of externally facing applications. High degree of technical competency. * Results focus and ability to share the vision of a product with a team and stakeholders as well as achieve measurable results. * Proven working experience within a SAFe or agile methodology and utilizing agile practices * Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally. Preferred Qualifications: * Strong facilitation skills within the teams and ability to lead cross-functional teams with strong negotiation skills. * Extensive modern technology stack experience and history of facilitating discussion with engineering teams resulting in best product decisions for platforms. * Training and certification as a professional

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