Technical Product Manager, Developer Experience

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
As the Technical Product Manager supporting Developer Experience within Engineering Platform, you will be responsible for helping to modernize our technology platforms that help make our developers more efficient and scale our engineering teams. You will create vision, drive requirements, the roadmap, and support the team by propelling critical initiatives that will fuel our ability to innovate, move quickly, and stay ahead of the competition. That will start with driving completion and adoption of our authorization service initiative, drive the requirements and associated initiative for a new jobs framework, and support acceleration of engineering teams adopting self-service AWS capabilities. You will also be part of a team of technical product managers who collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to deliver products and systems that directly impact the success of the entire engineering organization.
What you'll do

• Build a strong partnership with the Engineering Platform teams to support their service-oriented position within the organization.
• Gain a deep understanding of our platform, infrastructure technology, development challenges, and the unique challenges we face as a rapidly growing company.
• Co-own the team's vision and roadmap; generate buy-in and facilitate cross-functional collaboration with a wide range of technical stakeholders.
• Ensure that prioritization of work aligns with high-level strategies and business objectives.
• Maintain high levels of engagement with stakeholders through various forms of written and verbal communication, including roadmaps, project plans, status reports, and executive presentations.

What you'll Bring

• 4+ years of product management experience, including working with engineering teams. Prior engineering background is a plus.
• An understanding of ephemeral environments including Kubernetes.
• A passion for improving the developer experience through platform offering that focus on developer workflows, environments, and build & delivery processes
• Experience gathering requirements from customers while filtering into strategic direction.
• Strong judgment to prioritize various incoming and generated requirements based on value-add to the organization.
• Strong team player with high emotional intelligence and the ability to bring people together across varying personality types and work styles
• Tenacious self-starter with the ability to work independently, particularly in a highly cross-functional or matrixed environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A drive to advocate for adoption of frameworks, tooling, and environments being built out by the centralized team.
• The capability to Influence platform transformations by working closely with critical stakeholders.

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 also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus. #LI-Hybrid