Product Owner

If you are looking for a career at a dynamic company with a people-first mindset and a deep culture of growth and autonomy, ACV is the right place for you! Competitive compensation packages and learning and development opportunities, ACV has what you need to advance to the next level in your career. We will continue to raise the bar every day by investing in our people and technology to help our customers succeed. We hire people who share our passion, bring innovative ideas to the table, and enjoy a collaborative atmosphere. ACV is a technology company that has revolutionized how dealers buy and sell cars online. We are transforming the automotive industry. ACV Auctions Inc. (ACV), has applied innovation and user-designed, data-driven applications and solutions. We are building the most trusted and efficient digital marketplace with data solutions for sourcing, selling, and managing used vehicles with transparency and comprehensive insights that were once unimaginable. We are disruptors of the industry and we want you to join us on our journey. ACV's network of brands includes ACV Auctions, ACV Transportation, ClearCar, MAX Digital, and ACV Capital within its Marketplace Products, as well as True360 and Data Services. ACV Auctions is opening its new India Development Center in Chennai, India, and we're looking for talented individuals to join our team. As we expand our platform, we're offering a wide range of exciting opportunities across various roles. At ACV, we put people first and believe in the principles of trust and transparency. If you are looking for an opportunity to work with the best minds in the industry and solve unique business and technology problems, look no further! Join us in shaping the future of the automotive marketplace! At ACV, we focus on the Health, Physical, Financial, Social, and Emotional Wellness of our Teammates and to support this, we offer industry-leading benefits and wellness programs. About Drive Inc. We're on a mission to change the way people think about buying and selling cars in Ireland and across Europe. Drive Inc., an ACV company, is a rapidly growing technology start-up in Dublin building digital products for customers across Ireland and beyond. More than 80% of Ireland's car dealers use our platforms to discover, buy, and sell vehicles to and from consumers and other trade dealers. We are also the company behind Nevo, Ireland's only dedicated platform to helping consumers make the jump to electric vehicles. Across our brands, we earn our revenue from auction commissions and fees, product subscriptions, referring leads, and partner advertising. Our revenues have been increasing at an exponential rate, and this is driving the expansion of our software engineering team. We're continuously innovating our brands, launching new products, and looking to move into different markets. To fuel this growth, we're looking for a Product Owner to join our software engineering team. We're still early on our journey, so now's a great time to join our team and have significant influence over our future. About the Role As a Product Owner, you will collaborate closely with our business stakeholders to understand their goals and translate and prioritize those needs into a digital product roadmap. Working alongside our software engineering teams and technology partners, you will communicate the detailed business requirements and ensure the right features get delivered and to a high quality. Reporting to our Chief Technology Officer in Ireland, you will be a core member of both the engineering and business teams both in Ireland and India. You'll work across all our brands, helping to shape their future direction. Using customer feedback combined with data-driven insights, you will identify ways to improve the experience of our users, optimizing conversion rates and growing our revenues. We strive for continuous improvement in everything we do. You will be helping to define and evolve the ways of working within the engineering team. You will bring your experience and creative ideas to help us find an increasingly effective and efficient approach to identifying, capturing, and delivering valuable functionality. We don't get everything right the first time, but you will help us reflect, adjust, and be better next time around. As we grow the team, you will be excited to share your expertise by coaching and mentoring others. We are looking for people who are inquisitive, confident exploring unfamiliar problems, strive for continuous improvement, and have a passion for learning. We don't have all the answers and don't expect you to know everything either. Our team culture is open, inclusive, and collaborative we tackle goals together. Seeking the best solution to a problem, we actively welcome ideas and opinions from everyone in the team. Your Skills and Experience As this is our first Product Owner role, we are looking for someone who has existing experience in a similar role. You will have worked with customer-facing digital platforms that involve some kind of transaction, such as eCommerce, trading platforms, or advertising lead generation. You can explain different techniques for defining and maintaining product roadmaps, along with the contexts in which they are most effective. You know how to prioritize these effectively using a range of different techniques. As a strong communicator, you are very comfortable running stakeholder workshops with both business and technical audiences. You are a good listener and capable of influencing others. You are familiar with agile methodology principles and the definition of user stories as a method of communicating business requirements to internal software engineering teams. You have experience-influenced opinions on how to adapt these methods when working with external technology partners. With a good appreciation of user-experience (UX), you can shape solutions that are easy and intuitive to use. You proactively identify different user personas and can see the world from their perspective to anticipate their specific needs. You're able to analyze data effectively and gain useful insights into user behaviors. You use these to influence the product roadmap and business requirements, able to measure how they have contributed to improved business performance. We have many automotive industry experts within our team already and they are eager to teach you everything you need to know for this role. Any existing industry knowledge is a bonus but it not necessary to be the successful candidate for this role. More about us The Drive Inc group comprising a number of Ireland's fastest-growing automotive technology brands: - TradeBid empowers Irish car dealerships, manufacturers & lease companies to buy and sell trade vehicles with over 1,200 trusted dealerships on the platform. - Tramovo is a white-label product that enables leading vehicle manufacturers to provide underwritten valuations for direct-to-consumer vehicle trade-ins. - Nevo is all things EV allowing consumers to become informed on the transition to electric vehicles and connect with retailers on the ever-growing list of makes and models. Our Values Trust & Transparency | People First | Positive Experiences | Calm Persistence | Never Settling #LI-RG1,