Summary:

ABOUT US:

We are fast-paced, forward thinking and driven by data.
We are accelerating the used car industry.
We are looking for creative, talented, hard-working individuals to join us.
Buckle up. It’s going to be a great ride.

Based in Chicago, DRIVIN (powered by KAR) is accelerating the used car industry by bringing data and technology together in a spectacular, first-of-its-kind fashion to help dealers acquire the right cars, at the right price, right now. We are committed to delivering data-driven solutions with a high-touch, personalized level of service to each of our clients.

We are looking for world-class individuals to join our team of creative technologists, forward-thinking sales and marketing professionals, entrepreneurial hackers and visionary data scientists. We are committed to offering our employees top benefits and perks, including medical, dental, vision, tech subsidies, and much more.

We are looking for people that will help us create a culture that is exciting, empowering, motivating and challenging. Are you interested in learning more?

THE ROLE:

The Product Owner is a true connoisseur of our business: understanding each team and its impact on the company, the problems we face, and the potential solutions that we can build to improve our core key performance indicators. The Product Owner is not just a problem solver, but a problem finder; someone who proactively seeks out potential problems to solve and their relative impacts on the company should we solve them. The Product Owner truly owns the product: building a Vision, Roadmap and Backlog for future development that deliver viable, usable and feasible solution for the end user. We are looking for agile team leaders with the right balance of qualitative and quantitative skillsets to create an achieve their visions, building better experiences for internal users and customers alike.

Job Description:

THE RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Develop a product Vision, showing the future impact of your product and its effect on the company
• Build and maintain a prioritized Product Roadmap aligned to your Vision, showing the company how you are going to make your Vision a reality by creating features within your product
• Lead an Agile development team through both Discovery and Execution, creating using stories and executing your backlog
• Create product strategies and apply data to make informed business decisions
• Gain a fundamental understanding of the full user experience, understanding critical paths and dependencies from your key stakeholders
• Communicate the product features with business partners, focusing on the direct impact on the business KPIs
• Lead, manage and collaborate with cross-functional teams, business partners and stakeholders to improve your product
• Collaborate with developers on the product team to build a core platform that can be utilized throughout the organization
• Prioritize capabilities that benefit the varying needs of users across a heterogenous organization

THE REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree  
• ~7 years of experience in customer-facing, technology related business as a product owner or developer within an Agile environment
• Proven success developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies
• Proven success tracking impact of product releases with data, showing ROI metrics and movement across company KPIs
• Demonstrated ability to work across an organization, incorporating feedback from internal stakeholders within Operations, Finance, Marketing and Sales
• Strong communicator (both written and oral), and comfortable in front of varying audiences from engineer to C-level executive -- including tailoring the level of detail for the audience
• Excellent time management skills and able to manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment