Roadmap

On this episode, Miguel, Daniel and Ebs chat to Pete about their roles as Delivery Leads at Auto Trader. They discuss how delivery collaborate across product & tech, establishing relationships, and things not to worry about working in delivery.

On this episode, Rach speaks to Julia, Senior Product Manager at Intercom, about her learnings from bringing Intercom's Generative AI Chatbot "fin" to life.

On this episode, Pete chats to Helen, Alice and Jason about Auto Trader's Diverse Talent Accelerator programme. Alice and Jason share their experiences of going through the programme, and Helen highlights her experiences as a programme facilitator.

On this episode, Auto Trader's COO Catherine Faiers talks to Pete about Auto Trader's transformation from a magazine to digital business, the businesses purpose and scale, and reflecting on standouts from 2023 so far.

Season 1 of Roadmap is a wrap! We've explored career journeys, test engineering, accessibility to apps, and only just scratched the surface. Thanks to everyone who's listened, and a special thanks to all the guests who've told their stories. Stay tuned for Season 2, releases start in October! 

On this episode, Rach is joined by Damian and Rachel to discuss the importance of ensuring vulnerable customers are considered when building products. They share stories from their experience collaborating on the Auto Trader automotive finance product, integrating compliance into product teams, and building 'healthy tensions' between compliance & product.

On this episode of Roadmap, Pete talks to Catherine, Steve and Michael to give an overview of how the data and analytics community at Auto Trader work as part of cross-functional development teams.

With Auto Trader's 8th cohort of Apprentices starting in September, Pete talks to Mark, Charlotte & Luke about their experiences on and supporting engineering apprenticeships.

On this episode of Roadmap, Pete talks to Paul, Sam and Harriet about how we're building a more personalised experience for the 3m monthly users of the Auto Trader app.

On this episode of Roadmap, Rachael talks to Calum Wiggins, Group Product Manager at the BBC. They chat through the importance of focusing on growing yourself and others through mentoring, feedback & coaching, and advice for moving into a product leader role.

On this episode, Pete talks to Hannah, Biswa & Neil about the shift from manual regression to automated testing, ensuring quality products, and navigating their careers as test engineers.

On this episode, Rachael speaks to Amanda and Scott about product marketing. They discuss the collaboration between product & marketing, their experiences working together on a recent project, and the importance of inviting everyone to the 'product marketing party'!

On this episode of Roadmap, Pete chats to Polly & David about their journey from joining Auto Trader as bright eyes and bushy tailed engineering & sales graduates in the early 2010s to being senior product managers.

On this episode of Roadmap, Pete chats to Dolapo (Del) and Peter about their experiences moving into managing API and data products at Auto Trader. They discuss the differences managing data products vs. 'traditional' user facing products, working with third party development teams, and collaborating closely with data science and engineering.

On this episode of Roadmap, Pete is joined by Nat, Rach & Stu from our Accessibility working group at Auto Trader. They discuss Auto Trader's accessibility journey so far, why considering accessibility is so important when building products, and some top tips on promoting awareness and education around accessibility.

On this episode of Roadmap, we hear stories from Maggie's journey from product consultancy into an in house role at Auto Trader and the good, bad & ugly of consultancy versus in-house.

Welcome to our very first episode of Roadmap, a platform for people at Auto Trader and beyond to share their stories of building products and have lively conversations about the things they're truly passionate about. On our first episode of Roadmap, Pete, Karolina & Ben talk about whether 'Auto Trader is a Product?', the journey the business has been on over the years, and an overv...