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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.
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Checks: Transforming Testing at Autotrader
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.
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How to win with experimentation
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.
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An Academic Adventure in A/B Testing
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.
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Farewell to First Street
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.
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Roadmap brings together passionate people who build products to have meaningful conversations about topics which matter to them. If you're in product, engineering, design, or you simply have an interest in tech, we hope you'll find these conversations useful.

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