Experian Automotive Product Manager

Experian is the world's leading global information services company, unlocking the power of data to create more opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.  For five years in a row, we have been named in the Top 100 "World's Most Innovative Companies" by Forbes Magazine.  Fueled by best-in-class data and innovative technology we help businesses and consumers make smarter decisions and create a better tomorrow.

We are seeking a Product Manager to join the Experian Automotive Product team. You'll be responsible for product ownership in support of world class data driven solutions offered by Experian. Your role will be critical to revenue generation across 4 key sales channels including OEM, Strategy, Dealer, and Lender. Key strengths for this role are in developing data insights that show how our automotive technology products provide value to the clients. You will play a critical role in defining and executing reporting and business intelligence product features to drive success of our overall product strategy.

Our ideal candidate will be a detail-oriented, creative thinker with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. They should be able to clearly communicate with people at all levels. We are looking for an energetic self-starter with a high sense of urgency and good follow-through capabilities. They require the ability to manage multiple tasks in a rapidly changing environment, with excellent time management and organization skills. We are looking for a team player and positive influencer, this role requires many interactions cross-functionally with the ability to provide clear direction to our development team.

Responsibilities

• Works on Experian Automotive Data product lines (leveraging Vehicle History, Credit, Identity, and other Experian Data solutions).
• Work within Experian Data environments to apply automotive specific strategies, create reporting and dashboards to be leveraged to drive business strategy and provide enhanced industry level insights.
• Lead the effort to develop, collect and analyze metrics and continually improve reporting across platforms within Automotive Business Units. Establish requirements for data movement, modeling, aggregation, and infrastructure.
• Conducts VOC and stakeholder research for project requests and to define project scope and objectives.
• Solves problems at the detailed level with a strong understanding of data requirements and capabilities, focusing on client uses cases to develop next generation data analytics products.
• Act as a lead on key projects from original concept through final implementation with minimum guidance and make sure to deliver projects to completion on budget, on time and with high user satisfaction rate.
• Data driven approach with ability to establish metrics tracking and identify tactics to improve data quality, data accuracy, data management.
• Ability to resolve data issues through root cause analysis to identify short-term and long-term recommendations for potential remedy or improvement. 
• Collaborates with clients and other departments to create detailed data and functional requirements from SMEs and create business requirements, technical and function specifications, and user stories that will help develop our product capabilities.
• Teams with cross-functional departments and act as quarterback to support new analytics development projects for high-profile multi-channel product lines.
• Monitors activities and ensures adherence to company policy and federal laws and regulations.
• Works with other Product Managers on backlog prioritization, sprint planning and other agile development.
• Create performance metric reports for benchmarking using strong data visualization to provide clear value-added input that management or customers can render actionable insights with the information.
• Tracks ongoing progress and results for products and pilot programs.
• Actively engages in sales enablement activities as a product SME answering questions, supporting to create proposals, and presenting product demos, including products not directly within line.

• 5+ Automotive experience and industry knowledge required, including business analysis and/or product management
• Strong skills with Data Analysis, SQL, DB architecture
• Experience creating robust Tableau or other BI reporting and dashboards
• Familiarity with SAS, R, Python
• Ability to self-start coupled with having a results-driven approach
• Ability to take deep dives into disparate data sets to solve real world business problems
• Experienced with and comfortable in discussing a wide variety of vehicle and consumer credit lifecycle data and products, including permissible uses of DPPA and FCRA regulated data Preferred experience with Identity, Digital Retail, and Vehicle History Data Solutions
• Experience in agile product development lifecycle and demonstrates good story writing skills
• Experienced in all aspects of business and data analysis
• Hands-on experience in creating concept flows, uses cases, functional modeling.
• Strongly empathetic with varying customer types and how our products can satisfy their needs
• Willing to work within a team, handle feedback, and creatively engage and debate with colleagues
• Highly accountable, with a feeling of responsibility for every deliverable that the team provides
• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience)

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our goal is to create a thriving, inclusive and diverse team where people love their work and love working together. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion is essential to our purpose of creating a better tomorrow. We value the uniqueness of every individual and want you to bring your whole, authentic self to work. For us, this is The Power of YOU and it ensures that we live what we believe. 

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay range for this position is listed above.  Within this range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors such as job-related skills, experience and education.  This position is also eligible for a variable pay opportunity and a comprehensive benefits package which includes health, life and disability insurance, generous paid time off including paid parental and family care leave, an employee stock purchase plan and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

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