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At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.  

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Senior Product Manager II

 

Job Description

About the role:

 

AccuTrade is looking for a Senior Product Manager who is a highly motivated individual with a background of bringing commercialized products to market in an online environment across a large sales team.  We are actively seeking a candidate to join our AccuTrade team as a Senior Product Manager II who will be focused on managing a soon-to-be-released product to our 1,000+ dealer customers.  This role will work with customers, technology, operations, sales, finance and marketing teams to ensure the launch and ongoing product management are successful.  This Senior PM II will be instrumental in increasing AccuTrade’s dealer market share and product growth.

 

As a Senior Product Manager II at AccuTrade, you are a creative problem solver, a role model to other PMs, and an executor driven by positive outcomes for our customers. 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 work with our technology team, bringing products and features to life through an iterative development cycle.  Once delivered, you will work with the sales, operations and marketing teams to launch such products and features across 1,000+ dealer customers as well as 200+ front-line sellers.  

 

This individual should posses very strong product development skill sets, working in a fast-paced online technical environment.  They should also have past experience in developing value messaging, communicating that message to customers and training teams.  Reporting value demonstration back to customers is also a critical portion of this role. Working with our Finance team, the Senior Product Manager II will determine optimal pricing in accordance to that demonstrated value.  In short, the product development portion of this role is only half the journey.  The other half is launching and scaling those products across a large customer base yet be simple enough to sell through a disparate sales channel.  

  

This role offers an exciting opportunity for individuals who are passionate about automotive technology, product development and bringing products to market that can stand the tests of time. 

 

Essential job functions:

 

• Product Development: Ability to listen to dealer customer needs and translate them into optimal product features that can scale.  Become a subject matter expert in the AccuTrade product, understanding its functionality and capabilities thoroughly. Address dealer inquiries on new feature requests or feature requirements through curiosity and 1 to 1 interactions.  Working with our technical team in an agile environment to bring those features to life.
• Go-to-Market: Drive commercialized adoptio