Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ACV Auctions is a technology company that has revolutionized how dealers buy and sell cars online. They are seeking a Product Manager to lead their Data & Search platform, focusing on leveraging data capabilities to enhance buyer and seller experiences.
Responsibilities
- Own data products powering ML models, such as vehicle attributes, condition, and history
- Lead as the connective tissue between Engineering, Data Science, ML teams, and Commercial stakeholders
- Collaborate with engineering and data science teams on ML model feature definition and selection, ensuring inputs align with product goals, customer behavior, and measurable business outcomes
- Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to define, evaluate, and improve model performance metrics aligned to product outcomes and customer value
- Employ a hypothesis-driven approach to product development, converting ambiguity and assumptions into a clear framework for experimentation and validation via experimentation frameworks, including A/B testing, and evaluating offline versus online metrics to measure product and model performance
- Ensure data quality, coverage, and the reliability of underlying models and services that power critical product experiences and business decisions
- Translate complex data from multiple sources—including user behavior, seller performance, and model outputs—into actionable insights that drive product prioritization and innovation
- Improve inventory liquidity, pricing accuracy to drive trust and optimize the marketplace
- Identify high-leverage product opportunities through ranking improvements, data enrichment, and better use of signals to improve relevance, conversion, and customer outcomes
- Guide product strategy by evaluating and clearly communicating critical trade-offs between technical implementation and business value (e.g., performance vs. explainability)
- Define and own a 6–12 month roadmap across Data, Search, and ML-driven features
- Articulate and advocate for product strategy, roadmap, and business outcomes to executive leadership to secure buy-in and alignment
Skills
- 4+ years industry (Auto-tech) / Product Management experience
- Experience owning data-heavy or technically complex product areas, including data pipelines, schema and event design, platform integrations, and prioritizing product investments that improve data accessibility, usability, and business impact
- Strong understanding of modern data hygiene practices, including data quality management, governance, lineage, validation, and the processes required to ensure trusted, reliable, and scalable data assets across the organization
- Demonstrated success in identifying and implementing LLM-based solutions to augment user workflows, resulting in significant efficiency gains or enhanced capabilities
- Proven track record of leading the end-to-end delivery of complex, technical products, from ideation through to launch and iteration, consistently driving measurable business impact
- Ability to drive product strategy by translating complex data into actionable insights, which requires a strong quantitative toolkit including hands-on proficiency in SQL, rigorous experimentation design, and a deep understanding of metrics architecture
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering teams
- Agile experience and release planning prioritization skills
- Presentation skills - Ability to simplify complex data and technical systems
- Mentoring and coaching skills
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or similar). Advanced degrees are a plus
Benefits
- Multiple medical plans including a high deductible, low cost health plan
- Company-sponsored (paid) Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
- Comprehensive optional benefits such as Dental, Vision, Supplemental Life/AD&D, Legal/ID Protection, and Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
- Generous paid time off options, including uncapped vacation days, the greater of 3 paid sick days or in accordance with the applicable state or local paid sick leave law, 6 paid company holidays, 2 floating holidays, parental leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, voting leave, and other forms of paid leave as required by applicable law or regulation
- Employee Stock Purchase Program with additional opportunities to earn stock in the Company
- Retirement planning through the Company’s 401(k)
Company Overview
ACV is a high growth technology company that provides a vibrant digital marketplace for wholesale vehicle transactions and data services. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Buffalo, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.acvauctions.com/.