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Job Overview
Location
Illinois, USA
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
November 20, 2025
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Own the 2026 growth and scalability strategy for AccuTrade IMS (Inventory Management Solution), our newest product line purpose-built to revolutionize how dealerships manage, price, and turn inventory in real time.
- • Translate dealer pain points into a living, data-driven roadmap that balances high-impact customer value with bottom-line ROI, ensuring every sprint moves the needle on revenue, retention, and market share.
- • Lead a cross-functional squad of designers, engineers, researchers, analysts, sales, marketing, and operations to ship features that reduce days-on-lot, increase gross profit per unit, and create a frictionless trade-in to retail workflow.
- • Serve as the primary voice of the customer—spending 25-30 % of your time on dealer calls, ride-alongs, and NPS interviews—then synthesize qualitative insights with SQL-driven dashboards to prioritize epics that matter most.
- • Coach and mentor 2-3 junior Product Managers, running weekly story-critique sessions, OKR reviews, and career-development plans so the entire product organization levels up together.
- • Define, instrument, and monitor product KPIs (e.g., inventory turn velocity, appraisal-to-retail conversion, subscription ARR) and publish monthly business reviews that influence executive investment decisions.
- • Collaborate with external data, logistics, and remarketing partners to integrate APIs that feed real-time market pricing, transportation costs, and auction valuations directly into the IMS interface.
- • Partner with Sales Enablement to craft crisp value propositions, ROI calculators, and demo scripts that shorten the enterprise sales cycle and unlock six-figure expansion deals.
- • Work with Customer Onboarding and Support to streamline implementation playbooks, reduce time-to-first-value to under 14 days, and create self-service resources that scale without adding headcount.
- • Champion lean experimentation—running A/B tests, concierge MVPs, and rapid prototypes—to validate assumptions early, kill low-value bets quickly, and double-down on winners.
- • Establish yourself as the go-to thought leader for inventory management innovation by speaking at NADA, publishing blog posts, and hosting quarterly dealer advisory councils.
- • Communicate roadmap updates, trade-off decisions, and launch retrospectives across Cars Commerce’s matrixed organization, ensuring alignment with Cars.com, Dealer Inspire, and Dealerclub initiatives.
- • Model our “Rise Together” culture by actively seeking diverse perspectives, challenging assumptions respectfully, and taking ownership of outcomes—even when it means having hard conversations.
- • Drive continuous process improvement: refine story definition, tighten acceptance criteria, and evangelize agile ceremonies that keep teams focused, energized, and accountable.
🎯 Requirements
- • 7+ years as a Product Manager in a commercial SaaS environment with a demonstrable record of delivering double-digit revenue growth or cost savings across a full product line.
- • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Economics, or related field (MBA or advanced degree a plus).
- • Deep fluency in product management fundamentals: lean discovery, agile delivery, OKR setting, KPI instrumentation, and roadmap prioritization frameworks (RICE, MoSCoW, or similar).
- • Proven ability to translate complex customer workflows into simple, scalable software—ideally within automotive, e-commerce, marketplaces, or logistics sectors.
- • Hands-on experience with SQL, Tableau, or equivalent tools to query data, build dashboards, and make evidence-based decisions without waiting for analysts.
- • Track record of partnering with Sales and Marketing to craft value props, pricing models, and enablement assets that accelerate enterprise deals.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive base salary of $154,200–$192,750 plus annual performance bonus and equity refreshers.
- • Remote-first culture with a $1,000 new-hire stipend to build your ideal home office and quarterly connectivity reimbursements.
- • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans from day one, plus HSA/FSA and 401(k) with 4 % company match.
- • Generous PTO policy, nine paid holidays, one floating holiday, one volunteer day, and “Refuel” sabbaticals for service-based recognition.
Skills & Technologies
Product Management
Senior
Remote
Degree Required
About Cars.com Inc.
Cars.com Inc. operates a leading digital automotive marketplace connecting car shoppers with sellers across the United States. The platform offers new and used vehicle listings, dealer and private-seller inventory, reviews, pricing tools, financing options, and research content. Revenue comes from dealer subscriptions, advertising, and financing services. Headquartered in Chicago, the company serves consumers, automotive dealers, and manufacturers through websites and mobile applications, facilitating vehicle transactions and related services.
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