Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tekion Corp is positively disrupting the automotive industry with its innovative cloud-native automotive platform. The Customer Success Consultant will engage with dealerships to assess performance, develop advancement plans, and facilitate high-stakes conversations, leveraging their expertise in dealership operations and the Tekion platform.
Responsibilities
- Conduct performance assessments using the Dealer Maturity Model diagnostic, identifying where each rooftop sits across the five-tier progression and the specific blockers preventing advancement
- Own the tier advancement plan for each account, translating DMM findings into a prioritized roadmap with clear milestones and measurable outcomes
- Partner with Customer Value Managers to integrate DMM findings into Customer Value Plans and Value Review conversations
- Identify and interpret industry metrics as value realization evidence
- Apply structured discovery methodology to every engagement. Diagnose before prescribing, and enter each account with a defined approach, not a pre-built agenda
- Frame problems in the dealer's language. Translate platform data and adoption gaps into business terms the dealer principal, GM, or department manager already uses
- Navigate resistance with diagnosis, not repetition. Identify the source of pushback and adapt the engagement approach accordingly
- Facilitate high-stakes conversations including value reviews, workflow redesign sessions, and change management discussions that require structured facilitation, not content delivery
- Maintain current mastery of the Tekion platform across all relevant modules
- Serve as the escalation resource for complex product questions that exceed CVM depth. This is a domain expert function, not a support function
- Design and deliver group enablement programs, including cohort sessions, virtual clinics, and workflow deep dives, that scale CVA impact beyond the 1:1 model
- Contribute to CVA playbook development, turning field patterns into repeatable methodology the full team can apply
Skills
- Direct experience in automotive dealership operations as a GM, controller, department manager, or equivalent role where you owned outcomes across multiple functions
- The ability to walk into any dealership and be immediately credible in a room of operators. Not because of what you say, but because of what you know
- Demonstrated fluency with DMS platforms and dealership technology. You do not need to be trained on what a desking tool is or what a deal jacket contains
- Structured consulting or advisory instincts, including the ability to diagnose a situation, build a recommendation, and guide a stakeholder to action
- Strong Executive Presence as they work with the top level Dealer Executives
- Prior experience with Tekion or a comparable DMS at an administrative or power user level
- Experience in a customer success, consulting, or enablement role within a SaaS or automotive technology environment
- Tekion ARC knowledge, Variable preferred, Fixed knowledge secondary. Internal CVA, PS or Support is the most likely resource
- Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau, Looker, Sigma, or Power BI
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Automotive Management, or related field; equivalent dealership operations experience accepted in lieu of degree
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and generous stock options
- 100% employer-paid top-of-the-line medical, dental and vision coverage
- Great benefits including unlimited PTO, parental leave and free snacks and beverages
- The opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds from Silicon Valley’s most dominant and successful companies
- Be part of an early stage, hyper-growth start-up with the opportunity to grow and prosper
- Work on the latest and coolest technologies – everything is home-grown and built ground-up
- A dynamic work environment with a strong sense of community and collaboration
- The open and transparent culture that encourages innovation, rewards performance and discourages hierarchy
- Exciting opportunities for career growth and development
- This position may be eligible for equity compensation, and/or a bonus or commission whereby total compensation may exceed base salary depending on individual or company performance
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