Lead Product Manager, Marketplace

ACV

$120K — $145K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-Year Bachelor's Degree in Business, Communications, Finance, Computer Science, or related field.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling products end to end in high-growth environments.
  • Experience in managing and coaching product managers.
  • Fluency with AI-native product workflows and rapid prototyping techniques.
  • Strong skills in product discovery, prioritization, and measurement (KPI) analysis.
  • Business acumen including experience presenting business cases and financial models to executives.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder influence skills.

Responsibilities

  • Support initiatives to enhance the customer experience.
  • Own strategy and roadmap for marketplace products, aligning teams on shared goals.
  • Lead, coach, and develop junior product managers, providing feedback to enhance their skills.
  • Architect and scale products to handle increasing transaction volume effectively.
  • Collaborate with finance and executives on business cases to drive marketplace growth.
  • Drive discovery for new features and decide on investment strategies for development.
  • Set standards for product management processes and practices, including AI-native discovery.
  • Oversee go-to-market planning for product launches, ensuring success criteria are met.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on team coaching.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and product management practices.
  • Participation in high-impact product initiatives.
  • Engagement with executive leadership on strategic business planning.
Full Job Description
We are looking for a seasoned Staff Product Manager to own and scale products at the heart of ACV's marketplace - the dealer-to-dealer platform where thousands of vehicles are bought and sold every day. You have a strong track record of building scalable products end to end and leading a team of product managers as they grow. In this role you will set the product strategy for your area of the marketplace, lead and develop a team of junior PMs, and be accountable for the quality and velocity of everything your team ships. You are equally comfortable setting long-term direction and rolling up your sleeves on the hard problems, and you bring the judgment and strategic range to build great products that keep pace with our rapidly evolving business.

What you will do:
  • Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
  • Own the strategy and roadmap for your area of the marketplace, aligning your team behind shared goals and keeping everyone focused on the highest-value work.
  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of junior product managers - setting clear expectations, giving regular feedback, and helping each PM level up their craft.
  • Architect and scale products that perform reliably as transaction volume, users, and data grow, partnering closely with engineering on the trade-offs that keep the platform fast and dependable.
  • Partner with finance and executives to build the business cases and product targets that feed the annual operating plan, and execute against those targets to drive marketplace growth.
  • Drive discovery for new marketplace capabilities, and make the build, buy, or partner calls that decide where your team invests.
  • Set the standard for product craft on your team, defining how you do AI-native, prototype-led discovery and analytical rigor, and building reusable practices that speed up work across the team.
  • Lead go-to-market planning for major launches, defining success criteria and coordinating launch sequencing across Sales, Marketing, and Operations.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment on multi-team initiatives, building relationships with leaders in adjacent functions to unlock opportunities and reduce friction.

What you will need:
  • Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
  • 4 Year / Bachelor's Degree in Business, Communications, Finance, Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling products end to end, ideally in a high-growth, high-volume environment.
  • Experience directly managing, coaching, and growing a team of product managers
  • Fluency with AI-native product workflows, including rapid prototyping.
  • Product discovery, prioritization, product-strategy, and measurement (KPI) skills.
  • Business and financial acumen, including building business cases and financial models to present to executives.
  • Excellent communication and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
  • Go-to-market and release planning experience.

Nice to have
  • Marketplace or two-sided platform product experience.
  • Automotive or automotive-adjacent industry experience.
  • Experience building platform or API products that other teams build on.
  • Experience with products where scale, reliability, or data accuracy is mission-critical.
  • Technical depth, such as prior software engineering experience, fluency querying data with SQL, and comfort reading and reasoning about code.

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Our Values

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Compensation: The compensation range for this position is listed in the "Job Details" section at the bottom of this posting. Please note that final compensation will be determined based upon the applicant's relevant experience, skill set, location, business needs, market demands, and other factors as permitted by law.

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