Sr. Product Manager (Platform)

As a Senior Product Manager, Commerce Platform at Cars Commerce, you will help deliver on our vision to provide local automotive retailers with a streamlined platform offering of interoperable components that enable retail media and vertical software solutions.  You are a strategic partner to other Cars Commerce product teams and work collaboratively to define, create, and deliver critical platform capabilities that power automotive commerce experiences across our portfolio of products.  You will work with a cross-functional group of designers, engineers, researchers and analysts to form and execute a coherent and inspiring product roadmap (including defining, validating, and prioritizing epics/initiatives). You will support the definition of product goals and strategy and will advocate core product development principles across the business.

As a Senior Product Manager, you are a creative problem solver, a role model to other PMs, and an executor driven by positive outcomes for our users. You demonstrate trust in and dedication to our vision, mission and values. You have strong customer empathy and make product decisions based on both qualitative and quantitative customer and business data. You make decisions by optimizing for ROI and driving bottom-line/top-line performance. You have a passion for solving complex, multi-sided problems, developing strategies and roadmaps, and executing plans that create new value for our users and our business. You are a natural collaborator and communicator who has a track record of building positive relationships across a broad, diverse organization.

• Guide the creation of scalable, reusable platform solutions that enable Cars Commerce product teams to deliver differentiated and delightful experiences for car shoppers and our dealer and OEM partners.
• Champion a platform mindset across the organization and work effectively with senior engineering partners to advocate for best practices.
• Be a hands on coach, mentor and role model to more junior Product Managers, while also building best in class products for your customers.
• Consistently deliver high value and impactful work, on schedule.
• Drive real customer and business value that shows up internally and externally, regularly and predictably.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teammates to improve our processes and ensure team alignment towards goals.
• Contribute to team level KPIs/OKRs, define product KPIs/OKRs, and monitor/manage product health and achievement toward those KPIs/OKRs.
• Establish effective, trusting relationships with key internal and external partners.
• Establish yourself as an expert and thought leader in your specific product space.
• Communicate roadmaps, updates and key accomplishments effectively and broadly throughout the organization. 
• Work across other internal teams to establish clear interconnected roadmaps to align on intersection points. 

• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, or economics, or related field, or equivalent work experience. 
• At least 5 years of experience as a product manager in a SaaS environment, with a demonstrated track record of shipping successful API-driven platform products that required partnering with multiple teams, organizations, and/or companies.
• Demonstrated product sense with an in-depth understanding of UX design principles and product experimentation (i.e. A/B testing, User testing, etc.).
• You have experience working across the entire product process (strategy through to delivery) and have exceptional grasp of the fundamental principles of product management, lean product development and agile practices.
• Experience defining KPIs and product metrics and using them to drive decisions, and pairing that with a sense for how and when to balance data with intuition.

• MBA or other advanced degree.
• Experience working in e-commerce, retail, marketplaces, transportation, logistics, or a related sector.
• SQL, Tableau and/or other data analysis skills.

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