Product Manager

Job Description
Edmunds offers flexibility to work fully remote, from our Edquarters, or a combination of both
At Edmunds we're driven to make car buying easier. Ever since we began publishing printed car guides in the 60's, the company has been in the business of trust, innovating ways to empower and support car shoppers. When Edmunds launched the car industry's first Internet site in 1994, we established a leadership position online and have never looked back. Now, as one of the most trusted review sites on the Internet, millions of visitors use our research, shopping and buying tools every month to make an easy and informed decision on their next car. For consumers, we bring peace of mind. For dealers, we make tools to help them solve their problems and sell more cars. How do we do it, you ask? The key ingredients are our enthusiastic employees, progressive company culture and cutting-edge technology. Want to join the team? Read on to find out how!
What You're Applying For:
Edmunds.com is looking for a self-driven Product Manager to join our Appraisals Business Unit which is responsible for creating, launching and growing new Vehicle Appraisal products for consumers and dealers. The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of hands-on product experience conceptualizing, building and growing B2C and/or B2B software products, and have the ability to thrive in a dynamic environment where change is both expected and welcomed.
As a Product Manager, you will:

• Be a primary subject matter expert for your products
  • Gain a deep functional and technical understanding of Edmunds Dealer Appraisal product suite
  • Understand the key business metrics that contribute to the success of your product and the factors that drive them
  • Conduct interviews and research to gain deep empathy for your customers
  • Represent your products not only to external customers (dealer partners) but also to internal stakeholders such as our executive team, sales team, account management team, customer care, etc.
• Iteratively launch new features to our customers
  • Support product development efforts within an agile development environment to define, build and launch consumer facing features for our Dealer Appraisal products. This includes gathering requirements, writing user stories, accepting completed features, and supporting rollout to production.
  • Assess product enhancement requests from stakeholders to prioritize them, and determine how to best introduce them to the product
  • Articulate business and customer value to development and design teams and use it to guide prioritization
  • Partner with our UX & design team to design delightful customer experiences
  • Construct, launch, and evaluate well-defined A/B tests to make continual product improvements.
• Support our existing trade-in tool products
  • Act as a first point of contact for Edmunds Dealer Appraisal products for escalations and feedback from sales, operations and dealers○ Troubleshoot issues to identify a path to timely resolution, while considering long term solutions that will improve the resilience of the product and our ability to serve our customers
  • Manage open line of communication between the dealer operations team and sales team on reported issues or product enhancements optimizations

What You Need:

• 2+ years product management experience with software/web development projects, including:
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams of 5-15 people using Agile scrum and Kanban software development methodologies
  • Experience prioritizing, writing, and testing user stories
• Working knowledge of Google Apps (docs, sheets, slides), Atlassian JIRA, and Slack
• Strong analytics skills and exposure to product analytics tools such as Tableau, Amplitude, or Google Analytics, or similar. SQL skills are a plus.
• Strong presentation, communication, coordination, and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, while using your resourcefulness and experience to ask for help from the right people when you need it
• Ability to navigate and adapt quickly to ambiguity and change
• Knowledge of the automotive industry is a plus.

The compensation range for this position is $111,000-$141,000 per year. The base pay will take into account internal equity as well as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. In addition, Edmunds offers full-time employees a comprehensive total rewards package including the benefits listed below.
Edmunds Perks:

• Flexible time off
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Comprehensive Health Benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Employees) and Health Savings Accounts (Employee and Employer Contributions)
• 401K Plan with company matching at 100%, up to 6% of eligible salary with immediate vesting
• Stock purchase program
• CarMax vehicle discount
• Up to 4 months Paid Parental Leave
• HeartCash matches employee donations to the causes that are important to them
• 2 Days of Paid Time Off for time to dedicate to social impact causes
• FitCash covers a portion of gym or fitness activity fees
• Well being sessions and events such as yoga, meditation and walking challenges
• On-going career development sessions and an annual learning event
• Pet insurance
• Sabbatical leave
• Education Reimbursement
• Pre-tax spending accounts for qualified transportation expenses
• Plus a coffee bar, frozen yogurt and more!

Working @ Edmunds.com:
Employees think it's a pretty great place to work and some pretty impressive publications think it is too: we have been recognized as one of the best places to work by Fortune Magazine, Great Places to Work, LA Business Journal, Newsweek, Computerworld, Built in LA, Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week Magazine, and Architectural Record. We've also been identified as one of the best workplaces specifically in Technology, for Diversity and Asian Americans, and as a Newsweek Most Loved Workplace for LGBTQ+ employees. If you're interested in learning more and joining our mission, we'd love to hear from you!
E dmunds will consider for employment qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws.
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