Group Product Manager

Accountabilities:

Product strategy and roadmap: Contribute to the overall product strategy and own the roadmap for a connected group of products and initiatives, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and portfolio priorities.
Investment and prioritization: Evaluate product opportunities, manage investment trade-offs, and clearly communicate risks, opportunity costs, and potential impacts on revenue and profitability.
Market and customer insights: Use competitive research, industry trends, customer feedback, and product analytics to identify opportunities and prioritize initiatives across the product group.
Performance measurement: Establish and monitor key performance indicators, including product adoption, engagement, conversion, retention, and revenue contribution, to evaluate product success.
People management and development: Directly manage, coach, and mentor Product Managers and Associate Product Managers, establishing clear expectations, supporting professional development, and maintaining accountability for results.
Talent development: Partner with product leadership on recruitment, onboarding, performance management, regular one-on-one meetings, skills assessments, and individual development plans.
AI adoption and enablement: Promote AI fluency across the product team by establishing expectations for AI-assisted workflows and coaching team members on defining, developing, and evaluating AI-powered features.
AI product strategy: Collaborate with Product Development leadership to determine where AI capabilities can create the greatest value and establish priorities for their implementation.
Responsible AI management: Apply established AI evaluation, release, and responsible development standards across the product group, ensuring appropriate testing coverage, output quality, reliability, and cost management.
Emerging AI technologies: Help define requirements for emerging AI protocols, including Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AI agent experiences, working with Engineering to determine the appropriate data, actions, and permissions.
Prototyping and validation: Develop practical product prototypes to test concepts, validate assumptions, and gather feedback from customers and internal stakeholders.
Product delivery: Oversee product development from initial concept through launch, working closely with Engineering and UX leaders to ensure successful execution and delivery.
Technical collaboration: Engage with Engineering as a technical partner, evaluating architecture, performance, implementation options, and scalability considerations early in the development process.
Product reliability and security: Maintain high standards for platform stability, performance, and security, ensuring that reliability improvements receive appropriate prioritization alongside new product features.
Cross-functional coordination: Coordinate dependencies and priorities with other Product Managers and product leaders to ensure consistency and alignment across product groups.
Hands-on product leadership: Take direct ownership of critical initiatives when needed, contributing to discovery, product definition, prototyping, and execution.
Go-to-market collaboration: Partner with Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Support, and Operations to coordinate product launches, prepare internal teams, support adoption, and evaluate post-launch performance.
Requirements:
Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Marketing, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Product management experience: At least 8 years of experience in SaaS product management, including ownership of complex initiatives within Agile development environments.
People leadership: Demonstrated experience formally managing or mentoring Product Managers, with measurable evidence of team development and professional growth.
Portfolio management: Proven ability to define and execute product strategy across a group of related products, balancing competing priorities and delivering measurable business outcomes.
Technical product expertise: Strong technical product management background and a practical understanding of how websites are developed, rendered, and optimized.
Web technologies: Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and structured data formats such as Schema.org and JSON-LD, including their impact on SEO, accessibility, website performance, and visibility in AI-powered search.
AI tools and workflows: Hands-on experience using AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Lovable, or Figma AI to develop prototypes, automate workflows, and accelerate product discovery and execution.
AI product development: Experience defining AI-powered product features, establishing success criteria, and evaluating output quality, accuracy, reliability, and operational costs.
Data-driven decision-making: Strong analytical skills and experience using product analytics platforms such as GA4 and Pendo to guide prioritization and measure performance.
Stakeholder management: Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders, communicate complex ideas effectively, and build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, UX, and commercial teams.
Product management tools: Proficiency with product development and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Miro.
Leadership qualities: Strong organizational, communication, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives and support teams through changing priorities.
Preferred industry experience: Background in automotive retail technology, dealership software, digital retailing, content management systems (CMS), customer relationship management (CRM), or automotive marketing solutions.
Advanced AI experience: Familiarity with MCP-based integrations, AI agent experiences, and emerging AI-powered product capabilities.
Additional management experience: At least 2 years of people management experience, ideally overseeing Product Managers, is preferred.
Recruitment experience: Previous involvement in hiring Product Managers and conducting structured interviews is an advantage.
Consumer experience expertise: Familiarity with online shopping journeys, lead generation funnels, conversion optimization, and marketing attribution.
Professional development: Formal training or certifications in product management or people leadership are considered beneficial.
Location eligibility: Candidates must reside in the United States and be authorized to work there.
Benefits:
Competitive annual salary: Targeted base salary range of $106,400–$161,400, depending on experience, qualifications, training, and other job-related factors.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Company-matched 401(k) retirement savings plan.
Flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick leave.
Six weeks of paid parental leave.
Eight paid national holidays.
Company-paid basic life insurance.
Optional supplemental life insurance.
Voluntary short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Voluntary pet insurance.
Optional Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for healthcare and dependent care.
Remote working arrangement within the United States.
Opportunity to lead a growing product team and influence strategic product decisions.
Exposure to emerging AI technologies and innovative SaaS product development.
Collaborative and inclusive working environment.
Opportunities for professional growth, leadership development, and career progression.