Product Manager - Toronto, Canada - KAR Global

KAR Global

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

We are looking for a high-caliber Product Manager (Remote) to join our growing Digital Marketplaces Product team.

As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for understanding customer needs, competitive landscapes, trends, and defining product roadmaps that leverage technology and data to delight customers.

You'll own areas of very strategic importance that are pivotal to our business growth.

You will think about the end-to-end customer journey across product and business units to ensure our customer's experience is a compelling, coherent, and consistent one.

Using data will be key for this position; from understanding user experience patterns to mining operational data.

In this role, you will leverage your unique combination of business and technical knowledge to evaluate technical options and to represent business requirements to the technology organization.

Key Responsibilities Include:

Contribute to the product strategy
Act as a knowledge leader within the company
Work closely with internal and external customers to build market empathy
Deliver and prioritized valuedriven product initiatives, and how to measure their success
Determine business & customer success metrics
Be an expert with respect to the competition

Qualifications:

Minimum of 3 years' experience as a Product Manager or Senior Product Owner
Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
Authoring skills able to articulate and document the customers' market problem in a manner that encapsulates knowledge and represents a true understanding of the market and its needs.
Interpersonal skills able to build strong rapport and relationships with customers to gain indepth understanding of customers' problems and needs.
Interview skills able to interview customers in order to comprehensively understand their market problem.
Language skills able to communicate, in written and verbal form, with diverse audiences, internal and external to the company, in a clear and comprehensible manner.
Methodological skills able to structure and craft market requirements using a formal and structured methodology.
Process skills able to implement and/or follow the product planning process component of the product delivery process.
Research skills able to perform market research, market analysis, and competitive intelligence studies.
Leadership skills sought for thought leadership on complex business issues and ability to lead facilitation of problem resolutions and new operations
Technical background, with experience in agile software development methodologies
Excellent teamwork skills
Proven ability to influence crossfunctional teams without formal authority
Ability to work across multiple projects simultaneously
Demonstrated collaboration, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
Analytic, highly creative and businessfocused problem solver

Preferred

Qualifications:

Previous wholesale auction inventory and sales management operations or systems experience
Strong system design experience
Agile, Kanban, Lean & Scaled Agile Framework experience
Bachelor's degree