Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with local and national workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies nationally.

Our Support teams work with multiple departments in a dynamic environment that promotes flexibility and autonomy, while offering the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of professionals. We work to comply with our company standards, exceed customer expectations and drive our Great Place to Work culture. Through the consistent delivery of quality services and understanding the needs of our business, we develop innovative improvements as we strive towards our company's Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals!

Outcomes and Activities:

• This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member.
• Partner with multiple engineering teams to enhance and manage internal or external products.
• Partner with internal and external customers to understand their needs and execute on value-added work to increase richness and usability of our products.
• Serve as the "voice of the customer" to the delivery team by representing and reinforcing the customer's perspective throughout product realization cycles.
• Partner with a cross-functional team of analysts, architects, engineers, testers, and others to develop and execute against product roadmaps and release plans.
• Own, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog.
• Collaborate with PMO/Agile to prioritize and maintain the product roadmap.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with subject matter experts, analysts, data scientists, and technology teams across Credit Acceptance to support our products.
• Act as the subject-matter expert for the data product and related data domains owned by the teams.
• Break down features into detailed stories consumable and testable by an agile team.
• Accept and review completed stories with a focus on product quality.
• Communicate release notes and product news and demo product changes to stakeholders.

Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.

• Customer-Centric: Fully understands and embraces the customer perspective and stays focused on desired outcomes to achieve product-market fit. Displays empathy and approaches problems from a customer's mindset before considering technical solutions. Deeply experienced in human centered design, design thinking and jobs to be done. Clearly defines customer benefits to accelerate decision making, understands how changes to the customer experience impacts backend processes and technologies and develops clear roadmaps that create pathways to action.
• Business-Focused: Integrates business analytics and operational excellence in every aspect of design and development. Analyzes data thru the lens of the customer and needs of the business and understands inputs, outputs and root causes. Utilizes a hypothesis-based experimentation mindset, iterates and tests hypotheses regularly and champions high impact outcomes.
• Technology-Driven: Leverages the best modern technologies to imagine, build and deliver revolutionary results. Collaborates effectively with technical and design teams to deliver amazing products to market efficiently with quality. Deeply understands end-to-end platforms and how changes impact the enterprise, applications and the overall technical ecosystem.
• Transformational Leader: Communicates, partners and influences across teams to deliver winning product experiences and outcomes. Serves as the visionary to set vision and direction across teams. Creates deep partnerships and trust through transparency and inspires partners to collaborate and win together. Embraces change and guides others in managing the impact of change.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar role. (Mid Level)
• 5+ years of experience in a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar role. (Senior)
• 4+ years of experience in a related product/industry. (Mid Level)
• 8+ years of experience in a related product/industry.
• Experience working closely with (and orchestrating across) engineering teams to deliver innovative digital products.
• In-depth knowledge of scrum and agile software development methodology.
• Proven ability to scope and author comprehensive business and technical product requirements.
• Strong analytic skills and instinct for success measurement/monitoring of delivered products.
• Demonstrated ability to be a highly functioning and influential leader on high-performing cross-functional teams.
• Deeply curious, open-minded, and creative thinker who loves to explore new areas and determine opportunities and recommend solutions.
• Excellent ability to communicate clear and consistent direction to team members, and to lead, motivate, and supervise project and/or working teams.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to learn, communicate, and influence across multiple disciplines.
• Proven ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple complex workstreams simultaneously

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or an analytical field
• Experience and understanding of consumer auto financing (or similar credit/lending business)
• Experience developing fintech products

Targeted Compensation: $126,000 - $192,000 base salary + an annual bonus plan.

This position is not currently open to individuals who require sponsorship now or in the future to work legally for Credit Acceptance, such as H-1b/ H-4 or F-1 OPT visa holders.

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Benefits

• Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work

Our Company Values:

To be successful in this role, Team Members need to be:

• Positive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on solutions
• Respectful by collaborating and actively listening
• Insightful by cultivating innovation, accumulating business and role specific knowledge, demonstrating self-awareness and making quality decisions
• Direct by effectively communicating and conveying courage
• Earnest by taking accountability, applying feedback and effectively planning and priority setting

Expectations:

• Remain compliant with our policies processes and legal guidelines
• All other duties as assigned
• Attendance as required by department

Advice!

We understand that your career search may look different than others. Our hiring team wants to make sure that this would be a fit not just for us, but for you long term. If you are actively looking or starting to explore new opportunities, send us your application!

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Required degrees must have been earned at institutions of Higher Education which are accredited by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or equivalent.

Credit Acceptance is dedicated to providing a safe and inclusive working environment for all. As part of our Culture of Compliance, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and value our culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of the person's age, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, criminal history, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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