The Senior Product Manager will play a key role in defining the company’s strategic product direction and executing on that vision. The successful candidate will excel in three areas – creating, validating, and championing a vision for the direction of your products; managing delivery; and partnering with marketing and sales to capture market value.

This role works closely with other product managers, designers, engineers, and go-to-market teams. Cars is a two-sided marketplace, which requires balancing the needs of other product portfolios and working with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the entire marketplace is successful.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead with an inspiring vision and strategy for your products.
  • Create a roadmap based on that vision and strategy.
  • Validate problems, opportunities, and solutions with customers / users.
  • Monitor overall portfolio health, complete product life cycle analyses; make recommendations to drive ROI, including grow, maintain, kill recommendations.
  • Maintain regular customer / user contact and a strong understanding of the value your products are delivering

Required Skills:

  • Entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for developing new products.
  • Excellent judgment, advocacy, communication, and prioritization skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to create a product vision and strategy that adds significant business value and to generate buy-in for it internally and externally.
  • Critical thinking skills to quickly make and measure decisions across products during planning and execution.
  • Strong business & financial acumen to set the right goals and targets.
  • Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively with peers, senior leaders, and cross-functional teams.
    Required Experience:
  • 5+ years of experience in product management.

Bonus:

  • E-commerce / marketplace experience.
  • Digital media business experience.
  • Auto experience.