AutoNation Mobility is looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to bring collaboration and effective execution to our product roadmap. Working with passionate and creative cross-functional teams, the Senior Technical Product Manager will play a critical role in delivering against our product vision.
As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will be working with a high performing team developing exciting products for customers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring our potentially industry changing solutions to market: articulating the roadmap for our technical product development teams, defining requirements and prioritization, and connecting our development strategy to our business plan. You will own both long-term strategic planning for technical teams and near term development plans.
For this role we are looking for an experienced Technical Product Manager that has worked closely with both internal and outsourced technical teams in the past, to join an exciting new team within AutoNation working to build a best-in-class product. Our team is fast paced, highly collaborative and is organized like a startup. Ideal candidates will have a proven ability to roll up their sleeves and deliver results in ambiguous environments.
AutoNation Mobility
Mobility is a recently established business unit and a major strategic pillar behind AutoNation’s strategy to unlock new horizons of growth. AutoNation Mobility is developing products and services to address the needs created from several trends such as 1) the shift from vehicle ownership to vehicle access; 2) the electrification of vehicles; 3) the shift to digital car shopping experiences and 4) the increasing importance of fleets.
Mobility will launch new models of vehicle ownership that provide consumers with more flexible, and convenient ways to access vehicles (compared to financing or leasing), at fair and transparent prices delivered through a seamless digital user experience. AutoNation can leverage its extensive vehicle inventory, nationwide coverage, parts and service, logistics, reconditioning, marketing, and fleet management infrastructure to offer consumers a seamless digital product experience while driving operational excellence and efficiency at every step of the value chain.
About Product Management at Mobility
We are a small team of entrepreneurs, operators and technologists excited about building new businesses that cater to the future of mobility and automotive. Creative problem solving and simplifying complexity is core to our product philosophy. You’ll have a chance to solve complex customer & product problems working with cross-functional teams, while building ecosystem solutions and systems at scale. We believe in the power of collaboration and keeping the customer at the center of every decision.
How your skills and passion will come to life at AutoNation Mobility:
- Lead technical strategy, planning and execution across the product lifecycle
- Work day-to-day in a cross-functional team of engineering, design, and operations to build and test new experiences that will have a direct impact on our members
- Proactively identify opportunities to 10x the customer experience
- Balance customer experience and business impact with speed and quality; solve for business outcomes while remaining customer-focused
- Lead demos, reviews and workshops to drive collaboration and alignment
- Be autonomous. Take full ownership of your work and drive your personal development. And take responsibility for every detail, every step of the way
Responsibilities
- You will own both long term strategic planning for technical teams and near-term development plans
- Working closely with technical development teams on feature definition, development prioritization to maximize product success
- Articulating how product features impact downstream adoption and support our overall product strategy
- Driving cross-functional success, from goal setting across teams, through design, testing and adoption
- Leading multi-functional teams through both tactical and strategic decision points, understanding dependencies, tradeoffs, risks and mitigations
- Communicating risks, updates and forward-looking plans to senior leadership and partner teams
- Defining strategy for the long term while executing against near term priorities
- Constantly identify opportunities for improvement, adding roadmap items and validating hypotheses rapidly
- Write concise communication for senior leadership, focusing on recent progress and major decisions made, defining measures of success, where you see risks and how you plan to mitigate them
Qualifications
For this role we are looking for an experienced Technical Product Manager that has worked closely with technical teams in their past, to join an exciting startup team building a best-in-class product
5+ years of technical product management experience, including direct work with technical teams
Experience managing cross functional projects, translating needs across groups
Able to collect, analyze and present data to support project goals and initiatives
Systems thinking; you think about the big picture while executing efficiently on immediate priorities