The Appraisal Lane seeks a Product Owner to assist in creating and managing our product suite. As a Product Owner, you will influence product direction with critical insights. You will work to support initiatives within our growing B2B and B2C communities. Your vision will be utilized by engaged users to meet and exceed their expectations. We would like applicants who:
- Understand technology
- Exhibit the intuitive thinking and instinct needed to stay one step ahead of an emerging market
- Possess sharp analytical and problem solving skills
- Maintain excellent organization
- Display passion for creating cutting-edge products
- Have great ideas and instincts
Who You Are
- You have a proven track record in a product owner role for a minimum of 3 years
- You demonstrate successful management and development of quality products and can define product roadmaps and long-term plans
- You have worked as a Product Owner on high performing teams - building and deploying mass-market and/or enterprise level applications
- You possess experience working within an agile framework for local and/or remote teams
- You communicate concepts and ideas to stakeholders and influence decision making at all levels within an organization
- You effectively partner with design teams to drive continued product improvement
- You understand analytics driven product development
- You are passionate about developing innovative products with an innovative team
Your Portfolio
- In addition to your resume, please prepare examples of your work in the form of flowcharts, wireframes, documentation, and/ or live examples.
On the Job
After 1 month, you will:
- Observe day-to-day processes
- Get to know teammates both in Austin and our Uruguay office
- Use our software and provide feedback
- Participe in current initiatives and get familiar with the product
- Attend and actively participate in Scrum rituals
- Attend process retrospectives and give insights
After 3 months, you will:
- Belong to a scrum team
- Manage your teams roadmap, backlog, sprints, demos, and standups
- Understand your automated coverage and audit this coverage with QA
- Manage releases and release communication
- Have a refined feature funnel and system for prioritization
- Build and manage relationships with influential users
- Understand your product metrics and make decisions based on insight they provide
After 6 months, you will:
- Have clear communication and channels for receiving structured feedback
- Know what you are measuring and a means to collect those metrics
- Have an outstanding relationship built on trust with your team
- Focus on support and training
Who We Are
At The Appraisal Lane (TAL), we’re innovating the used vehicle valuation process. A used vehicle is worth what someone is willing to pay for it, so valuing a vehicle on-the-spot is a real challenge that translates to missed valuations and opportunities for car dealers, and sometimes poor experiences for consumers trading in their vehicles. Traditional valuation services offer dealers and consumers ranges and estimates on vehicles based solely on market data and transactions. Often a vehicles history and condition are averaged in leaving a void the buyer needs to fill.
The Appraisal Lane has set out to help dealers and consumers by introducing a transparent process with all parties best interest in mind. Submitters collect an appraisals information VIA an app and submit the information to our team of live appraisers. Appraisers work each appraisal virtually—reviewing the data submitted by the individual requesting the appraisal, market data, assess the vehicles history and condition while communicating any questions to the submitter. As a result, we are able to provide a cash value in under 15 minutes.
Voted the 4th fastest growing technology company and the 3rd best startup in Austin by the Austin Business Journal, it’s no surprise that our company has experienced rapid growth. As a result, we are hiring visionaries who can drive new product development and contribute pioneering ideas to our team. TAL values its collaborative community and strives to provide a tight-knit, “work family” environment.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Medical, dental and vision covered 100% for employee
- 401k
- Generous holiday and PTO package
- Free covered parking
- Fully stocked kitchen
- Access to breakfast and lunch food trucks year-round
- On-site gym access
This is a full-time position at our corporate office located near 2222/360 in Austin, Texas.
Applications with portfolio links will be considered first!