Own and develop product areas within the Pinewood.AI platform, ensuring they align with business goals, customer needs and product strategy.
Translate customer feedback, business requirements and market insight into clear product opportunities and requirements.
Lead discovery activity across assigned product areas, including user interviews, research, data analysis and stakeholder engagement.
Carry out horizon scanning across market trends, competitor activity, emerging technology and customer needs, using this insight to help shape product direction and strategy.
Own and prioritise the product backlog, balancing customer value, commercial impact, technical considerations and delivery capacity.
Define clear user stories, acceptance criteria, feature requirements and success measures.
Work closely with engineering, architecture, QA, UX and delivery teams to ensure requirements are understood and delivered effectively.
Lead, guide and support Associate Product Managers and Project Delivery Managers, ensuring their work is aligned to product priorities and delivery plans.
Contribute to roadmap development, helping to shape priorities and communicate product direction across the business.
Use data, customer insight and feedback to support decision-making and measure product impact.
Act as a key product contact for internal teams, including Account Management, Implementation, Partner Support, Engineering and wider business stakeholders.
Support product communication, including progress updates, release plans, feature benefits and delivery timelines.
Review and support feature sign-off, ensuring product changes meet customer needs, quality expectations and business objectives.
Build strong relationships with customers, dealers, partners and manufacturers to understand real-world use cases and validate product direction.
Requirements
Previous experience as a Product Manager within a software, SaaS or technology environment.
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Pinewood.AI is seeking a Senior Software Developer to build and enhance its enterprise automotive intelligence SaaS platform. The role requires hands-on C#, .NET, SQL, front-end, API integration, Azure, CI/CD, and full-l
Knowledge of automotive retail, dealership operations, Dealer Management Systems or enterprise software platforms.
Experience across relevant product areas such as vehicle sales, CRM, vehicle inventory, accounting, aftersales, F&I, reporting or operational systems would be beneficial
Strong understanding of the product lifecycle, from discovery and research through to delivery, release and value measurement.
Experience gathering, interpreting and prioritising customer, user and business requirements.
Confident writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria and translating complex needs into clear product requirements.
Able to think strategically about product direction, market trends and competitor activity, while still being comfortable working hands-on with delivery teams.
Experience leading, guiding or mentoring product, delivery or project-focused colleagues.
Comfortable managing multiple priorities and stakeholder expectations in a fast-paced environment.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data and insight to support decisions.
Commercially aware, with a focus on delivering customer value and measurable business outcomes.
Organised, proactive and detail-oriented, with the confidence to make decisions and explain prioritisation clearly.
Experience using tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Figma or similar.
Experience working in Agile environments, with familiarity in Scrum, Kanban, Lean or similar frameworks.
Why Join us? This is a chance to join a growing SaaS product team working on a complex enterprise platform used across the automotive retail industry. You’ll have real ownership of product areas, the opportunity to shape strategy and direction, and the space to turn customer insight, market trends and competitor activity into practical improvements that make a measurable difference for customers and the business.
Benefits:
Competitive salary based on experience
Bonus scheme
Share scheme
Hybrid working
25 days holiday plus all UK bank holidays
4x life assurance
Enhanced family-friendly leave - 5 months' full pay for maternity or adoption, plus 2 weeks' fully paid paternity/adoption leave and an extra 2 weeks to use as paid annual leave within 24 months of birth or adoption
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - free, confidential 24/7 support for you and your immediate family (including counselling, legal & financial advice, and wellbeing resources)
Ongoing training & professional development
Cycle to Work scheme - save up to 40% on bikes and accessories through salary sacrifice
Eyecare vouchers - free eye test and contribution towards prescription glasses
Regular social events
Employee recognition and awards
About Us
Our story began more than 20 years ago, but right from the start, it has been rooted in the specific needs of the automotive industry. As automotive professionals as well as technologists, we wanted to build practical technology solutions that were designed around how automotive businesses work, recognising what makes them different. Pinewood.AI is an unparalleled Automotive Intelligence Platform that enables automotive retail customers and OEMs to drive growth and profitability throughout every aspect of their business.
Pinewood’s cloud-based secure end-to-end ecosystem unlocks the value of every customer. Our vision is to be the full-service technology partner that helps automotive retailers and OEMs run more efficiently and increase revenue by making better commercial and business decisions more easily.
About Pinewood.AI
Software & SaaS332 employeesFounded 1981
Public UK automotive software company providing cloud dealer-management and intelligence platforms to retailers and vehicle manufacturers.