Product - Product Owner

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**Who we are**:
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
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Product Owner
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. 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 prioritise 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, you will be a core member of both the engineering and business teams. 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, optimising conversion rates and grow 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 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.
This is a full-time role based in our central Dublin office on a semi-flexible basis. As you will be collaborating closely with other team members, you will ideally be in the office around 3-4 days a week.
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 prioritise 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