Product & Technology: The Eras Tour

In this episode of Roadmap, Ben S chats to Ben Mc and Chris to give a whistle-stop tour through the different eras of Product & Technology at Autotrader. They discuss the principles for how technology teams are organised, the challenges faced as the community has grown, and how the operating model has changed to overcome these challenges.

On this episode of Roadmap, Pete chats to Gina and Sam about Checks - Autotrader's one-stop-shop for pipeline tests and synthetic monitoring. They discuss why they built Checks, how they approached it, and the tangible benefits that Checks is already providing teams across product and technology at Autotrader.

In this episode Rosie chats with Steve Maile (Director of Product & Technology, Funky Pigeon) about how eCommerce websites can tap into the power of experimentation.From A/B testing and CRO to building a culture of experimentation, Steve shares insight and learnings from his career.

In this live episode, Ben Smith chats with Tom Armitage and Dustin Hayden about their journeys astrophysics and neuroscience to working on experimentation and modelling as Data Scientists at Autotrader.They talk through their recent experience in writing and presenting a technical paper which presents a generalised approach to Bayesian A/B testing, expanding what’s possible with the data we collect from our experiments at Autotrader and giving us more powerful, flexible insights.

On this live episode of Roadmap, Pete is joined by Alison Ross (Chief People & Operations Officer at Autotrader) and Matt Holmes (Director at 'kin). Matt is a designer who was part of designing Autotrader's First Street office and more recently has helped in designing of the new offices at Circle Square.Matt and Alison reflect on the big move to First Street back in 2014, including the design decisions made at the time, such as why we opted to crane vehicles into the office, and deciding against slides and ball-pits... They discuss the journey we've been on as a business since 2014 and how that's reflected in changes to our office environment, and look forward to the exciting next chapter in Circle Square.

On this episode, Rach chats to Adil, Sneior product manager at the Financial Times and founder of Productology.onlineProductology is a 6 week, interactive and complete bootcamp course that helps empower and build a new generation of Product Manager pioneers to learn, experiment and deliver.Adil talks through his experiences of being a founder alongside a busy day job including successes so far and key learnings.

On this episode, Rosie chats to Alys and Charlotte from Autotrader's Analytics team about how they've been working to raise the profile of their community.They talk about why this was important to them, where they startedhttps://www.meetup.com/herplusdatamcr/ (next meet up 11 September)https://www.meetup.com/pydata-manchester/ (being hosted at Autotrader on 25 September)

Ever wondered what it takes to design products for the toughest customers - your own colleagues? In this episode, Pete dives into Service Design with Maggie and Paul from the CX team.From balancing user feedback to managing expectations, Maggie and Paul share what colleagues really need, lessons learned, and the unique creativity required to build solutions that work for your team.

On this week's episode of Roadmap, Pete is joined by Jacey Normand.Jacey has had an illustrious career, from working in Parliament, Congress, being a BBC Presenter for over 20 years, to more recently going freelance as a coach and presenting for the 'Being the Standard' Group, founded by Kevin Sinfield.Pete and Jacey chat about the importance of being outside your comfort zone, why better people make better leaders, and Pete's future career as a mountain bike influencer ;)

In this episode Rosie catches up with Ilias, Hannah and Fauziya from our LGBT+ network to understand what pride means to them, why Autotrader participates, and how things are shaping up for the Manchester 2025 parade.