Lead Product Manager

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

Tekion’s Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) powers all partner-facing integrations through a robust API Platform. We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to drive the evolution of this platform and own its roadmap, adoption, and ecosystem impact. If you’re passionate about API-first ecosystems, integration scalability, and building great developer and partner experiences — we’d love to talk to you. 

Key Responsibilities

As the Lead PM for the APC Platform, you will: 

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for APC’s integration platform — including standard products like APIs, Webhooks, Data Feeds and more. 
• Define and track key product success metrics (adoption, performance, time-to-integrate, etc.) to evolve the platform. 
• Collaborate with Tekion’s architecture panel to define and evolve best practices, governance guidelines, and platform capabilities for APIs and integration products. 
• Work closely with all internal Application Teams to support consistent, scalable, and secure API development across the organization. 
• Monitor adoption, reliability, and usage trends for all integration products — proactively identify and address friction areas or high-volume issues. 
• Champion a platform mindset, delivering a consistent experience across partners, internal product teams, and support teams. 
• Ensure transparency and visibility into the status of APIs, Webhooks, and other integration features for internal client-facing teams and partners. 
• Continuously improve internal processes, including product development lifecycle, documentation, and certification workflows. 
• Work with Sales, Solution Engineering, and Customer Success to help design integration solutions for new clients using our standard integration products. 
• Partner with Marketing and Enablement teams to market our APIs and Webhooks, and ensure Sales and Support teams are well-trained. 
• Contribute to developer experience and partner onboarding by driving enhancements across developer documentation, API usability, and the partner integration lifecycle. 

Skills and Experience

• 6–10 years of total product management experience, with at least 3–4 years focused on API Platforms, Developer Tooling, or SaaS Platforms.
• Strong domain experience with OpenAPI, webhooks, event-driven architectures, and multi-tenant B2B SaaS platforms.
• Solid technical acumen — ability to collaborate closely with architects and engineers, with a deep understanding of REST APIs, versioning, rate limits, and schema governance.
• Proven experience working cross-functionally across product, engineering, architecture, customer success, sales, marketing, and partner teams.
• Skilled at identifying and resolving integration adoption challenges, driving API usability improvements, and simplifying onboarding at scale.
• Exceptional communication skills, with experience leading internal Confluence pages, product documentation, and developer-facing content.
• Based in Bangalore, with flexibility to collaborate and coordinate with global teams across the US, Canada, and the UK. 

Preferred Skills

• Partner with Security and Legal teams to ensure API policies are compliant with regional regulations (e.g., SOC2, GDPR). 
• Identify opportunities to productize commonly repeated integration patterns or workflows into reusable templates or SDKs. 
• Influence platform evangelism and developer outreach through demos, tech talks, and external documentation standards (like OpenAPI, AsyncAPI). 

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Generous stock options
• Medical Insurance coverage
• Work with some ofthe brightestmindsfrom Silicon Valley’s most dominant and successful Companies

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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