Senior Product Manager

Why Hearst Autos?

Hearst Autos connects car buyers, owners, and enthusiasts to the information they need, the experiences they crave, and the vehicles they love. As a division of Hearst Magazines, we offer the best of both worlds: a nimble, fast-paced entrepreneurial environment coupled with the career development opportunities and perks of an established company. 

Bring a Trailer is part of the Hearst Autos family. BaT Auctions are the best way to buy and sell classic, collector, and enthusiast vehicles. We curate vehicles submitted by our audience and craft transparent auction listings that present the vehicles as they are—without superlatives or dubious used-car-lot language. BaT's ever-growing community of knowledgeable users vets each listing so potential buyers can bid with confidence. 

Your Impact

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to build and expand on the experiences and tools powering the community, marketplace, and operations of the world’s foremost curated automotive auction marketplace and auto enthusiast community. You will report to the Director of Product and be responsible for BaT’s servicing and community ecosystem strategies, plans, and execution, in collaboration with your partners in Engineering and Product Design.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will ensure that product, business, and operations strategies and priorities align for your team and your stakeholders. You know how to foster collaborative and productive relationships across product, design, and engineering functions.

Ideal candidates possess big-picture vision yet the drive and attention to detail to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time with stakeholders and evangelizing their needs. You balance strategic thinking with outstanding execution – holding yourself and your team accountable to delivering successful outcomes. You quickly build credibility and partner.

This is a full-time, remote position with occasional travel required. Please note that we can only consider applicants from the following states: CA, CO, DE, FL, IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, NY, NC, NM, OH, PA, RI, TX, VA, WA, WI. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.

Things you will do

• Understand BaT as a business, end-to-end, at a deep level – how the various constituent groups in the marketplace, community, and within the company interact and drive the business
• Develop long-term and strategic business and product plans in collaboration with internal and external partners
• Define a strategy for our features and product experience informed by company objectives, a deep understanding of customer needs, and industry best practices.
• Lead critical projects with broad implications. Partner with technical and product leaders across BaT to align strategy and platform investments and work closely with design and engineering to create compelling, high-quality customer experiences.
• Use internal and external data to guide experimentation, decisions, opportunities and evaluation of success. 
• Partner with research, product design, and analytics teams to run quantitative experiments and analysis to test hypotheses and iteratively develop product capabilities.
• Communicate strategy, platform health, capabilities, winning and losing experimentation, and insights to a wide audience.

What we look for

• 6+ years of product management experience working in growth stage or large companies
• Passion for and interest in the car enthusiast community and industry
• Prior experience working with small development pods and ability to drive a roadmap independently 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate customer problems and drive alignment with cross-functional teams and leadership
• An analytical metrics-based approach to identifying, sizing, and solving problems
• Experience managing technical software products from kick-off to post-launch
• Excellent at identifying and prioritizing high impact initiatives
• A scrappy, get-things-done attitude to make your product and team successful
• The ability to turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid action plans
• Excellent at establishing cross-functional relationships, tapping into those relationships, and driving consensus to make progress