Product Manager, Consumer
Who we are
At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.
What we do
The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!
Role overview
Autolist is looking for a highly motivated Consumer Product Manager to join the team. The product team is highly cross-functional, and requires strong analytical skills, creative problem solving, and a passion for innovation. You’ll be solving impactful consumer problems and improving the car finding and buying experience for millions of car shoppers
About Autolist
For most people, shopping for a vehicle is an experience we’d rather forget. Navigating a sea of endless options, spending hours at the dealership and negotiating toe-to-toe with a dealer who does all this every day leaves automotive shoppers feeling exhausted and overwhelmed while hopeful, but not sure, they got a vehicle in good condition for a fair price.
Autolist is on a mission to rewire the automotive industry by making it easier for everyone to find and get a vehicle they love. We are creating an on-demand automotive shopping experience for every stage of the automotive life cycle - buying, selling, owning - and we’re well on our way. As an independent brand and subsidiary of CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG) we’re a startup within the worldwide category leader in automotive shopping helping millions of monthly users via our award-winning apps and web shopping platforms. Our efforts to streamline the automotive shopping experience is supported by a strong passion to empower people with the knowledge and experience they need for everything automotive, a commitment to equity, inclusion, and belonging, and world-class benefits.
About the team
The product and design team is a passionate, highly collaborative, entrepreneurial group dedicated to driving product innovation forward within Autolist and CarGurus. We work closely with engineering, marketing, and business/ops to seek and build solutions to meaningful and difficult problems within the automotive shopping experience. We believe in autonomy, self-motivation, pride of ownership, and team collaboration to help make Autolist and CarGurus the largest automotive marketplace in the world.
About the automotive industry
More than 35 million used cars are bought and sold annually in the US and over 90% are sold to consumers through dealers. As one of the most highly considered and expensive purchases made by consumers over the course of a lifetime, the $2 Trillion Global Automotive Market is one of the largest yet least modernized industries in the US.
What you'll do
- Drive the ideation, planning, development, and launch of products and features in support of core product and growth goals
- Collaborate with product, engineering, design, marketing, and operations teams to build solutions that deliver increasing value to automotive shoppers
- Use a variety of testing techniques to generate insights and make data-driven choices
- Be a strong advocate for users by achieving deep understanding and empathy through ongoing customer development, user research, and competitive analysis and translate those insights into impactful product hypotheses
What you'll bring
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 3+ years of product management or product adjacent experience, including experience working with product developers
- Bias for execution; you focus on defining the right MVP, making difficult trade-offs and shipping effective features
- Detail-oriented mindset; you believe that a great product is the sum of an inordinate number of small, thoughtful decisions
- Ability to analyze data from a variety of sources to identify key insights, pinpoint optimization opportunities, and inform product decisions
- Experience with SQL, Google Analytics, Snowflake, Looker
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and presentation experience
- Tenacious self-starter with the ability to work independently
- A minimum of 2+ years of experience in product management at a consumer internet company with a proven track record of successful, consumer-facing product launches
- Excellent product sense and thoughtfulness about the dynamics of a product ecosystem. You regularly keep up with new products to learn how they grow and work
Working at CarGurus
We reward our Gurus’ curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.
We welcome all
CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential—starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That’s why we hope you’ll apply even if you don’t check every box listed in the job description. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus.
Additional information
US employees must provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation. #LI-Hybrid