Senior Director, Product Management

The Opportunity:

As Senior Director, Product Management, you’ll play a pivotal part in driving the company’s product strategy. You’ll be the coach and advocate for a team of product managers, and guide the whole roadmap from shaping to deployment while supporting your team to enhance our product experiences spanning Consumer, Dealer, and internal tooling/technology landscape. You’ll be responsible for the products that will fuel our future growth. You must be a motivated, innovative thinker with the ability to quickly grasp opportunities and apply exceptional product management skills to help the company capitalize on all business objectives.

How you’ll drive TRUECar’s success:

• Lead & develop a team of product managers aligned to the same vision & working highly efficiently within our product roadmap. 
• Align product suite with company vision: Partner with the executive teams to ensure all product portfolios are strategically aligned with the company’s overall vision, mission, and long-term goals, adjusting priorities across the suite as necessary.
• Oversee and facilitate collaboration between portfolio leads to ensure coherent and complementary development efforts, optimizing resource allocation and maximizing impact
• Offer high-level guidance and support to portfolio managers, ensuring alignment with company objectives, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement across the product suite
• Thrive in an extremely fast-paced environment, making hard decisions and trade-offs quickly while working with the team on iterating their way to innovative product solutions
• Deeply understand the needs and problems of our users and build innovative products to meet those needs
• Collaborate across multiple functional stakeholders – including engineering, design, finance, marketing, PR, sales, and legal – to ensure your teams can successfully launch and scale our products
• Build a deep system knowledge of the user impact of product features and define key metrics for success

Your Expertise:  

• 10+ years of experience in a high-level product role.
• Continuous improvement mentality; never satisfied
• Flexible and open-minded; proactively seeks input from others
• Entrepreneurial drive and spirit; enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
• Handles constructive criticism with ease; adapts easily and efficiently to change
• Proven ability to build strong, effective relationships across a broad set of stakeholders
• Able to influence and inspire a cross-functional team to reach ambitious goals
• Track record of successfully launching and growing products
• Balances outstanding user insight with high analytical rigor
• Driven to question assumptions and validate hypotheses
• Obsesses over getting the product details right but knows how to ship on time
• Deep understanding of multi-product environments and associated platforms and technology