Product Manager, Connected Vehicle Platform

Ikon Technologies builds dealer-first software and hardware that helps dealerships operate with less friction and retain customers long after the sale—through lot management, connected vehicle / telematics systems, and smart marketing.

Our mission is to revolutionize automotive selling, buying, and ownership through a superior connected vehicle experience. Headquartered in Arlington, TX, Ikon has reached a major milestone: ~1 million vehicles protected/installed as of December 2, 2025.

Build the product platform powering
-1 million connected vehicles—turning telematics, dealer-branded mobile experiences, and data into measurable dealership revenue and increased customer lifetime value. This is staff-level ownership at real-world scale.

We are hiring a Staff Product Manager to own and evolve Ikon’s Connected Vehicle Platform—the system that connects vehicles, dealers, and drivers through installed telematics, data products, and a dealer-branded mobile experience. This is a senior individual contributor role for a product leader who operates like a GM of a platform area: setting strategy, aligning executive stakeholders, driving difficult tradeoffs with engineering, and delivering measurable improvements in adoption and revenue.

If you’ve built platform products at companies like Stripe, Twilio, or other large-scale tech environments—and want deeper end-to-end ownership in a platform that spans hardware, vehicles, data, and mobile—this role is designed for you.

What You’ll Own

Ikon’s platform sits at the intersection of:

• Telematics / IoT vehicle signals and privacy-aware data flows
• Dealer-branded connected car mobile experiences
• Lifecycle engagement and service retention
• Dealer operational outcomes and customer lifetime value

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for the Connected Vehicle Platform, grounded in measurable business outcomes
• Lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, design, data, support, sales/GTM, and executive stakeholders
• Own platform capabilities such as APIs, event flows, instrumentation, observability, data quality, privacy-by-design, and system reliability expectations
• Define success metrics and build instrumentation plans to measure adoption, retention, and revenue impact
• Conduct dealership and end-user discovery to validate needs and refine product direction
• Influence go-to-market strategy including packaging, positioning, and launch plans
• Drive execution excellence: write high-quality PRDs, prioritize effectively, manage tradeoffs, and deliver iterative, measurable outcomes

Must-Have Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience (or equivalent technical/product leadership) with ownership of complex products from concept through launch
• Demonstrated success leading multi-team initiatives in ambiguous environments, influencing technical roadmaps, and aligning senior stakeholders
• Strong technical fluency with APIs, event-driven systems, data flows, system performance, reliability, and instrumentation
• Proven data-driven product approach with experience defining KPIs, owning dashboards, and making prioritization decisions based on measurable impact
• Experience building B2B products and/or platform ecosystems (APIs, internal platforms, developer experience)
• Experience with IoT, telematics, or connected device ecosystems (hardware + software + data integration)
• Experience with mobile product experiences and lifecycle engagement loops (notifications, retention, reminders, etc.)
• Experience working with privacy, consent, and sensitive data (e.g., location or regulated data environments)
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to create structured narratives and executive-ready documentation
• Automotive retail or dealership ecosystem experience (DMS, service retention, F&I workflows) is helpful but not required