Sr. Product Manager II

Cars.com Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Remote - United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• 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, our reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, 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.
• As a Lead Product Manager at CARS, you will own the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) product portfolio, including NCH (New Car Hub), NVI (New Vehicle Inventory), CPO (Certified Pre-Owned), and other OEM programs. This role will drive innovation and business-critical value delivery, uniquely combining core PM feature development, program management, and direct client engagement, requiring you to work fluidly between building great products and serving as a trusted partner to OEM clients and the OEM Sales team.
• As a Lead Product Manager, you are a creative problem solver, a role model to other PMs, and an executor driven by positive outcomes for our users and OEM partners. You bring deep customer empathy and make product decisions grounded in both qualitative and quantitative data. You balance feature development with program delivery and client commitments, and you are comfortable presenting roadmaps and product strategies to senior OEM executives. You have a passion for solving complex marketplace and automotive challenges, and a track record of building trusted relationships across diverse, matrixed organizations.
• What You’ll Own
• Own and deliver the product roadmap for the OEM portfolio, including NCH, NVI, CPO, and related OEM programs.
• Act as a hands-on coach, mentor, and role model to more junior Product Managers, while building best-in-class products for OEM clients and end users.
• Serve as the primary product point of contact for OEM clients leading client-facing presentations, QBRs, and roadmap reviews in partnership with the OEM Sales team.
• Partner closely with OEM Sales to translate client needs, deal commitments, and market feedback into clear product requirements and prioritized backlog items.
• Understand OEM partners’ and shoppers’ problems in detail; define and prioritize tradeoffs between scope, schedule, cost, and business benefit to keep engineering focused on the highest-impact work.
• Manage concurrent OEM programs across cross-functional teams (engineering, design, data science, analytics), maintaining clear program plans, milestones, and risk visibility.
• Consistently deliver high-value, impactful work on schedule across both feature development and program deliverables.
• Drive real customer and business value that shows up internally and externally, regularly and predictably.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teammates to improve processes and ensure team alignment toward goals.
• Contribute to team-level KPIs/OKRs; define OEM product KPIs/OKRs and monitor product health and performance against those metrics.
• Establish effective, trusting relationships with key OEM clients, the OEM Sales team, and internal stakeholders.
• Establish yourself as the internal expert and thought leader on the OEM product space.
• Communicate roadmaps, updates, and key accomplishments effectively and broadly throughout the organization.
• Work across internal teams to align on interconnected roadmaps and manage dependencies between OEM programs and platform investments.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 7 years of experience as a product manager (across mobile and web), with a history of delivering significant and meaningful business and customer outcomes across a full product line.
• Experience in the automotive industry, OEM, dealer technology, or adjacent automotive software/data platforms strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated product sense with an in-depth understanding of UX design principles and product experimentation (e.g., A/B testing, user testing).

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
• Generous PTO
• Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day

Skills & Technologies

Product Management

Senior

Remote

Degree Required

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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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