Senior Product Manager

Be essential at Cars Commerce

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.  

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challenge and Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we're obsessive about the employee experience. We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.

Senior Product Manager, Unified Value Demonstration 

About this Role

As a Senior Product Manager at Cars Commerce, you will help solve challenges unique to our platform by working with a cross-functional group of designers, engineers, researchers, and analysts to refine the customer value demonstration vision and execute a best-in-class product roadmap (including defining, validating, and prioritizing epics/initiatives). In your role, you will have ample opportunities to connect with our end customers as well as develop a deep empathy for client-facing teams and their unique needs.

As a Senior Product Manager, you are a creative problem solver, a role model to other Product Managers, and an executor driven by positive outcomes for our internal & external users of various reporting platforms. 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.

Essential Functions

• Define and deliver a roadmap to deliver a rich visual presentation of data-driven stories that will drive insights and help our customers make the right decisions not just for their investment with Cars Commerce platform, but also for their overall marketing spend.
• Continue to the coordinated development of our various reporting platforms to provide a best-in-class solution to support value demonstration and drive business growth for Cars Commerce products. 
• 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 toward 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 (client-facing teams) and external (Dealers, OEMs) stakeholders.
• 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 alig