{"id":3964024,"url":"https://alion.io/job/tekion-senior-product-manager-8","title":"Senior Product Manager","company":{"id":804,"name":"Tekion","domain":"tekion.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/tekion","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":19,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.842,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":47,"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chennai, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"Function Calling","optional":false},{"name":"Human-in-the-Loop","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":true},{"name":"SQL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T11:18:20Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T20:11:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"About Tekion:\nPositively 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.\nRole Overview\nWe are looking for a technically strong Senior Product Manager with hands-on experience building and launching AI-powered B2B enterprise products.\nYou will own product strategy, roadmap, and execution for intelligent products and platform capabilities that solve complex customer and operational problems. Working closely with Engineering, AI/ML, Design, and Data teams, you will take capabilities from discovery and prototyping through production deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.\nThis role requires strong technical judgment, an understanding of enterprise workflows, and demonstrated AI product development experience-not just familiarity with AI tools.\nKey Responsibilities\nProduct Strategy & Ownership\nOwn the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, aligning enterprise customer needs with business priorities.\n\nLead customer discovery to identify high-value problems and determine where AI, deterministic workflows, or a combination of both provides the best solution.\n\nTranslate complex requirements into clear PRDs, user journeys, feature specifications, user stories, and measurable acceptance criteria.\n\nPrioritize initiatives based on customer impact, technical feasibility, dependencies, risk, and delivery effort.\n\nOwn the product lifecycle from concept and validation through launch, adoption, and ongoing optimization.\n\nAI Product Development\nLead the development of AI-powered experiences, including LLM-based applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic workflows.\n\nPartner with AI/ML and Engineering teams on model selection, grounding, tool integrations, orchestration, and human-in-the-loop controls.\n\nDefine agent behaviors, intent routing, skill specifications, policy configurations, permissions, and fallback mechanisms.\n\nEstablish evaluation frameworks and curated golden datasets to assess accuracy, task completion, reliability, safety, and edge-case handling.\n\nDefine release criteria and production monitoring, balancing output quality, latency, inference cost, and user experience.\n\nUse customer feedback, evaluation results, and production insights to continuously improve AI capabilities.\n\nTechnical Product Leadership\nCollaborate with Engineering on scalable services, Java-based microservices, Kafka event pipelines, and agentic platform integrations.\n\nReview system designs, API specifications, data models, and integration flows to clarify requirements and evaluate trade-offs.\n\nDefine API requirements, data contracts, authentication and authorization needs, and failure-handling expectations.\n\nPartner with platform and data teams on schemas, instrumentation, observability, and integration dependencies.\n\nEnsure enterprise requirements-including security, privacy, access controls, reliability, scalability, and auditability-are incorporated into product decisions.\n\nParticipate in technical troubleshooting and root-cause discussions with engineering teams.\n\nDelivery, Measurement & Adoption\nOwn backlog prioritization and partner with engineering Scrum teams to deliver outcome-focused releases.\n\nDefine and track KPIs across adoption, task success, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, AI quality, and cost.\n\nValidate solutions through prototypes, experiments, pilot programs, and customer feedback.\n\nDrive launch readiness, stakeholder communication, user enablement, and change management.\n\nCommunicate roadmap decisions, dependencies, risks, and technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nRequired Skills & Qualifications\n5+ years of Product Management experience, with ownership of technically complex products.\n\nB2B enterprise product management experience is a must, including experience addressing complex workflows, integrations, and the needs of multiple stakeholders.\n\nProven experience building and shipping AI/ML-powered products into production, with direct ownership of discovery, requirements, evaluation, launch, and measurable outcomes.\n\nStrong practical understanding of LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, tool calling, and AI limitations and failure modes.\n\nExperience defining AI evaluation criteria, test scenarios, quality benchmarks, and production feedback loops.\n\nStrong technical fluency across distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data platforms.\n\nHands-on experience working with RESTful APIs, webhooks, authentication mechanisms, and enterprise integrations.\n\nAbility to read and discuss architecture diagrams, API documentation, data models, and technical specifications with engineering teams.\n\nStrong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with experience defining KPIs and using data to guide product decisions.\n\nExcellent written communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills.\n\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nGood to Have\nExperience building campaign management or CRM products.\n\nExperience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent orchestration, and reusable AI tools or skills.\n\nExperience authoring PRD-as-Code artifacts, including intent definitions, skill specifications, and policy configurations.\n\nFamiliarity with Java-based services, Kafka, cloud infrastructure, and AI observability tools.\n\nExperience with AI security, privacy, prompt-injection risks, and responsible AI practices.\n\nAbility to use SQL, API testing tools, and workflow automation tools to validate assumptions and investigate issues.\n\nPrior experience in automotive retail, dealer technology, or enterprise operational workflows.\n\nCurrent Tekion Employees: Please apply via the Internal Job Board in Ashby.\nNote: Tekion recently transitioned to a new recruiting tool and we appreciate your patience and feedback as we adjust to our new system!\nTekion 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.\nFor more information on our privacy practices, please refer to our Applicant Privacy Notice here.\nImportant: Tekion will only contact candidates from an @ tekion.com email address or through our applicant tracking system (). We may also work with authorized recruiting partners from time to time. Tekion and its recruiting partners will never ask you to pay fees or send money for applications, interviews, training, or onboarding. If you receive a message that seems suspicious, please do not respond or share personal or financial information.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7905,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Automotive Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-09T13:15:34Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/tekion-senior-product-manager-8","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/tekion-senior-product-manager-8.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T21:41:44Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":45818,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":804},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=804"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftekion-senior-product-manager-8"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ftekion-senior-product-manager-8"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ftekion-senior-product-manager-8"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/tekion-senior-product-manager-8\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftekion-senior-product-manager-8"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3964024}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"tekion.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3964024},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}