Lead Product Manager : Accounting

As a Lead Product Manager - Accounting at Tekion, you will be responsible for financial products used by CFOs, controllers, and accounting teams within dealerships. This leadership role involves driving innovation, defining strategy, and executing initiatives to enhance financial products. You will guide cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional solutions, transforming automotive industry operations through cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI.

Must Have

• Define product strategy and maintain a prioritized roadmap
• Actively engage end-users to understand objectives and pain-points
• Lead end-to-end product execution from ideation to launch
• Drive innovation and automation in financial management processes
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, and GTM teams
• Create clear and comprehensive product requirements documentation
• Build deep knowledge of product functionality through hands-on use
• 7+ years of relevant work experience as a product manager
• Demonstrated track record of launching scalable, user-facing, B2B SaaS products
• Extensive experience with ERP applications in financial management
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Leadership mindset with talent for inspiring teams and solving complex problems
• Ability to work independently with a bias for action

Good to Have

• Knowledge of dealership accounting and operations
• Experience working across geographies / time-zones
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent certification

About Tekion:

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.

Job Description

Automotive Retail Cloud connects all core operations of a dealership seamlessly. As a Lead Product Manager - Accounting, you will be responsible for financial products that CFOs, controllers, and accounting teams within dealerships use daily. We empower our product teams to solve challenging customer and business problems in ways that delight our users. You will take on a leadership role to drive innovation, define strategy, and execute initiatives that enhance our financial products. Your insights will be instrumental in guiding cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional solutions in our quest to transform how the automotive industry operates.

Key Responsibilities

• Define product strategy maintain a prioritized roadmap that delivers maximum value to customers
• Be the voice of the customer: Actively engage end-users to develop a deep understanding of their objectives, workflows and pain-points
• Lead end-to-end product execution, from ideation and design to launch and continuous improvement
• Drive innovation and automation within dealerships’ financial management processes through market research and thought leadership
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, adjacent product teams, and GTM teams to bring new capabilities to life
• Create clear and comprehensive documentation to relay product requirements and expected outcomes to technical as well as non-technical stakeholders
• Build deep knowledge of the product functionality by leveraging internal resources and through hands-on use

Skills and Experience

• 7+ years of relevant work experience as a product manager working with engineering and design teams
• Demonstrated track record of conceptualizing and launching scalable, user facing, B2B SaaS products
• Extensive experience with ERP applications in financial management including general ledger, payables, receivables, financial reporting, and controls
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills to effectively engage and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
• Leadership mindset with a talent for inspiring teams and solving complex problems innovatively
• Ability to work independently with a bias for action and an inclination to dive deep and execute on the product vision

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of dealership accounting and operations
• Experience working across geographies / time-zones
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent certification

Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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