Product Manager

Description:

Product Manager

The Role

Join a high-impact and rapidly evolving Pricing & Valuation product organization within JD Power, delivering industry-leading SaaS data and analytical solutions for our auto finance enterprise customers across the automotive financing and lending space. As a Product Manager within the Pricing/Valuation team, you will play a critical role in driving product enhancements, shaping new product opportunities, and ensuring strong alignment between our product roadmap and the needs of our customers.

This role combines elements of analytics, customer feedback, and cross functional execution. You will triage and analyze product issues, evaluate and scope new product ideas, and translate roadmap priorities into clear plans for our customer-facing teams. You will work closely with data science, engineering, and customer success to ensure our products deliver measurable value to clients.

The Impact You Will Have In This Role

Your problem-solving skills and ability to communicate complex information will directly influence product development/ideation and customer adoption. You will help ensure our products drive business and revenue growth, while also enabling our customers’ success in using our tools.

What You’ll Be Doing In This Role
 

• Support product issue triage by assessing severity, performing root-cause analysis, and coordinating with engineering and data science teams to ensure timely resolution.
• Manage and prioritize new product ideas by evaluating business impact, technical feasibility, and alignment with product strategy.
• Scope product enhancements and create clear requirements for new features and improvements.
• Maintain product roadmaps, ensuring visibility into timelines, dependencies, and key milestones.
• Synthesize customer feedback and usage insights to inform product decisions and advocate for user needs.
• Support go to market planning, ensuring teams are equipped with the context, messaging, and materials needed for successful launches, including client-facing use cases, demos and training.
   

Qualifications Of This Role
 

• BA/BS degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Finance, or related field required
• Strong background or familiarity with the automotive industry is highly preferred.
• Prior experience in product management or product ownership for SaaS data and analytics solutions, including managing backlogs, defining requirements, and partnering with technical teams.
• Experience with ThoughtSpot, Tableau, BI tools, and/or SQL is preferred.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly absorb information, structure ambiguous challenges, and drive clarity.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to simplify technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, data science, customer success, and commercial teams.
• Enterprise customer engagement experience understanding customer insights usage, managing customer relationships, conducting customer interviews, or owning customer success metrics for data/analytics products.