EBlock
EBlock is a leader in the wholesale automotive market, providing sellers and buyers with a streamlined digital platform that combines the energy and immediacy of a physical auction together with the convenience and efficiency of a digital one. EBlock is an online vehicle auction where vehicles are bought and sold in 60 seconds. Our technology gives automotive dealers the opportunity to inspect and sell vehicles in a live online auction from their own dealerships. Our goal at EBlock is to streamline and simplify the car buying, selling, and appraising process, and we believe our end-to-end solution is second to none in the industry. Through our EBlock and EDealer brands, E INC has built a reputation for creating a company—and a culture—that thrives on fearlessness, curiosity, and ingenuity. From Software Development to Sales to Client Services, our departments work together to help bring E INC’s vision to life. They function across both the EDealer and EBlock brands to create intuitive and inventive experiences for all our clients. Find out more at: https://eblock.com
Jobs by richard.schaaf
Vice President, Product
See Full ListingThe Vice President, Product will translate business strategies into product plans, drive the definition and execution of those plans from inception to launch, and optimize the products to deliver against key financial and strategic goals and core customer benefits to help E INC lead the transformation of automotive wholesale and retail. You will work closely with the Chief Product Officer and extended leadership team to drive strategy and execution of product priorities. This high impact role will have a direct link to our Company objectives and requires leadership, strategic direction, and the ability to build effective teams that can scale and execute.
What You Will Do
- Work with leadership in defining and articulating product vision for E INC tying retail and wholesale together with inventory and data
- Scale and lead teams related to Product Strategy, Product Management, Product Operations and User Experience
- Create and enable a culture of innovation and customer focus in collaboration with Engineering leadership
- Analyze and interpret market trends, competitive forces and technical developments in order to optimize new product development, differentiation and pricing
- Identify market opportunities and work across teams to perform build/buy/partner analysis
- Use data to inform decisions - Gather data to help guide intelligent change and ensure that we can monitor the results
- Be a voice of the customer internally to product teams, working with leadership to provide strategic direction
- Work with marketing to properly position products using a data-driven mindset
- Be a thought leader for developing and executing innovative growth strategies; thinking outside of existing ways of working / operating models
- 10+ years of experience in a product roles
- Strong customer focus with ability to build strategic, high-level relationships with E INC’s client base.
- Excellent leadership and mentoring skills, facilitates an atmosphere of open communication.
- Experience in the automotive industry an asset
- Comfortable presenting in person, via remote or in large groups
- Ability to work with a high sense of urgency in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Takes initiative to achieve company goals
- Easily seeks understanding
Vice President, Product
See Full ListingThe Vice President, Product will translate business strategies into product plans, drive the definition and execution of those plans from inception to launch, and optimize the products to deliver against key financial and strategic goals and core customer benefits to help E INC lead the transformation of automotive wholesale and retail. You will work closely with the Chief Product Officer and extended leadership team to drive strategy and execution of product priorities. This high impact role will have a direct link to our Company objectives and requires leadership, strategic direction, and the ability to build effective teams that can scale and execute.
What You Will Do
- Work with leadership in defining and articulating product vision for E INC tying retail and wholesale together with inventory and data
- Scale and lead teams related to Product Strategy, Product Management, Product Operations and User Experience
- Create and enable a culture of innovation and customer focus in collaboration with Engineering leadership
- Analyze and interpret market trends, competitive forces and technical developments in order to optimize new product development, differentiation and pricing
- Identify market opportunities and work across teams to perform build/buy/partner analysis
- Use data to inform decisions - Gather data to help guide intelligent change and ensure that we can monitor the results
- Be a voice of the customer internally to product teams, working with leadership to provide strategic direction
- Work with marketing to properly position products using a data-driven mindset
- Be a thought leader for developing and executing innovative growth strategies; thinking outside of existing ways of working / operating models
- 10+ years of experience in a product roles
- Strong customer focus with ability to build strategic, high-level relationships with E INC’s client base.
- Excellent leadership and mentoring skills, facilitates an atmosphere of open communication.
- Experience in the automotive industry an asset
- Comfortable presenting in person, via remote or in large groups
- Ability to work with a high sense of urgency in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Takes initiative to achieve company goals
- Easily seeks understanding
Market Research Specialist
See Full ListingThe E INC Market Intelligence team enables research and data-based strategic decision making across the organization. We are a group of highly skilled market researchers who consult with departments across the organization to ensure action oriented outcomes for research using our best in class research program.
We are seeking a Market Research Specialist with experience in competitive and market intelligence, analysis, and research. The ideal candidate for this position will have 2-3 years’ of experience in market research and will be responsible for providing analysis, reports, and recommendations with respect to market developments. This Analyst will own these end to end programs that help identify opportunities and gaps, as well as how we perform in our competitive set.
What You Will Do
- Conduct primary research. Gather and analyze industry, market and competitor intelligence.
- Produce ongoing management-facing deliverables with insights, implications, and recommendations that impact long-term competitive strategy, including management briefs, profiles and competitive alerts.
- Identify and analyze emerging threats, disruptive changes and potential opportunities within a fast-changing industry.
- Support departments across E Inc with deep understanding of competitive and marketplace trends, including:
- Product Management: understand competitors’ product features, business models, resources and capabilities; highlighting emerging market expectations and helping shape product roadmaps.
- Marketing: Understand competitors’ go-to-market strategies, brand positioning, product packaging and pricing strategy.
- Sales Ops: Understand competitors’ sales tactics and value proposition; develop competitive response strategy.
- Previous experience, including designing questionnaires and discussion guides, surveys, and conducting focus groups or 1:1 interview will be a plus
- Keep abreast of developments and best practices in the Competitive Intelligence field and maintain the knowledge necessary to retain professional competence
- Establish and maintain a closely aligned working partnership with internal partners across the organization, leveraging diverse and fragmented data sources to drive insights.
- 2+ years of business experience - some of that experience must include direct involvement with competitive analysis/research
- Demonstrated experience with qualitative and quantitative market research skills, including data analysis, data synthesis, SWOT analysis, and data driven recommendation
- Experience or knowledge with automotive dealership software would be an asset
- Strong interpersonal skills, including excellent writing and verbal communication are assumed. A self-starter and seeker of new ideas and initiatives, s/he will be able to ramp up quickly.
- Ability to design research to deliver data-driven outcomes that inform action
- Collaborate effectively and concisely communicate in verbal and written form
- Initiative and willingness to learn and drive innovation as it relates to research practices
- Nice to have skills are competitive win-loss analysis and data visualization/BI. In the absence of them, the candidate must be willing to learn and implement quickly.