Job Description
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
Our marketplace is only as powerful as the data that fuels it. We are looking for a Product Manager to lead the Inventory Platform, a vital asset which powers our comprehensive, real-time view of the millions of vehicles for sale.
You aren’t just managing a database; you are ensuring our products and our teams have the “gold standard” of truth required to drive consumer engagement and dealer decision making by wrangling the messy world of automotive data. As a Platform PM, your primary customers are our internal product teams, but your job is to build trust with every user. By making our inventory data rich, accurate, and easily accessible, you enable the entire organization to ship features faster—helping dealers make smarter moves and consumers navigate a daunting process with confidence.
Do you have a passion for getting to the heart of what customers are trying to accomplish and how we can help them? Do you feel a sense of accomplishment turning your insights from a vision into reality? Are you excited by the possibilities of how AI can help improve and augment our data like never before? Look no further, we’d love to talk to you about the role.
What you’ll do
- Define the “Data-as-a-Product” Vision: Own the roadmap for our core inventory platform, delivering data excellence by driving accuracy, detail, and accessibility.
- Pioneer AI/ML Solutions: Identify opportunities to use AI to improve data normalization, extract hidden vehicle features, and predict missing attributes.
- Enable Velocity: Your North Star is Speed to Market. Build the APIs, schemas, and self-service tools that allow internal product teams to launch new features without being slowed down by data complexity.
- Guardian of Trust: Ensure our data is so reliable that it can power a new suite of products with increasingly higher stakes for our dealers, giving them the confidence needed to run their businesses based on our insights.
- Strategic Collaboration: Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics teams to understand and solve our evolving needs and ensure our data remains a competitive advantage.
What you’ll bring
- 3+ years of Product Management experience, specifically within platform, data, or automotive product environments.
- The “Systems Thinker” Mindset: You enjoy the complexity of how a single data point cascades through a massive ecosystem and can predict the second-order effects of your decisions.
- AI Fluency: You have a working understanding (or deep curiosity) of how LLMs and ML models can be applied to data processing at scale.
- Internal Customer Obsession: You treat internal developers with the same empathy and rigor that you would an external consumer, striving to make their experience seamless.
- Clear Communication: You can translate complex data architecture into a compelling vision for executives while speaking the “language of logic” with engineers.
- Analytical Rigor: Proficiency in analytical and creative problem solving with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
- Resilience & Autonomy: You thrive in fast-paced environments where the problems are unstructured and the “right” answer requires both data and intuition.
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Position Pay Range
$123,000—$154,000 USD
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
