
Associate Product Manager
DealerOn
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $50,900 - $72,850 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- The Associate Product Manager plays a key role in shaping and advancing DealerOn’s software solutions.
- This role supports the entire product lifecycle: research, discovery, definition, delivery, and optimization.
- Conduct competitive analysis and industry research within the automotive retail software space to identify market trends, customer challenges, and strategic opportunities.
- Interview customers, dealers, internal SMEs, and partners to understand workflows, pain points, and emerging needs.
- Help define product vision, goals, and success metrics aligned with company strategy.
- Assist in developing and maintaining the product roadmap for your products, balancing customer value, business priorities, and technical feasibility.
- Create clear, concise functional and non-functional requirements – including user stories, acceptance criteria, and detailed user flows.
- Translate customer and stakeholder requests into well-defined problem statements and actionable backlog items.
- Work closely with UX/UI designers to refine user experiences, participate in usability testing, and validate solutions before development.
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure shared understanding of requirements, answer questions during development, and support sprint planning and backlog refinement.
- Collaborate with Training, Support, and Marketing teams to ensure product updates are clearly documented, communicated, and understood internally and externally.
- Provide troubleshooting and knowledge support to Operational teams for your products and features.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and grooming.
- Ensure backlog is prioritized, refined, and consistently aligned with roadmap goals.
- Triage incoming bug reports, feature suggestions, and improvement requests while assessing impact and recommending priority.
- Support release planning by preparing release notes, validating acceptance criteria, and conducting post-launch analyses.
- Communicate product decisions, timelines, and updates to stakeholders clearly and proactively.
- Validate feature outcomes through user feedback, analytics, and performance metrics.
- Assist in developing customer-facing documentation, training materials, and product guides.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience, preferably in business, engineering, computer science, or related field.
- 1+ year of experience in SaaS, automotive software, digital retailing, or related technology environment.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and experience working with product or development teams.
- Proficiency with Product Management software such as Jira, Confluence, or Microsoft Project.
- Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
- Ability to validate acceptance criteria and collaborate with users.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
- Ability to work autonomously while collaborating effectively in a team environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a customer-first mindset.
- 2+ years in product management, business analysis, or a related discipline within SaaS or automotive technology (preferred).
- Experience within dealership software, automotive retail operations, digital marketing, or automotive e-commerce platforms (preferred).
- Formal product management training (e.g., Pragmatic, Product School, CSPO) (preferred).
- Experience using roadmapping tools such as Aha!, ProductPlan, Monday.com (preferred).
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment with frequently changing priorities (preferred).
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Company matched 401K plan
- Flexible PTO + Sick Leave
- 6 weeks paid Parental Leave
- 8 Paid National Holidays
- Company-paid basic Life Insurance
- Voluntary supplemental Life Insurance
- Voluntary long-term/short-term disability insurance
- Voluntary Pet Insurance
- Optional Healthcare/Dependent Care FSA Account
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product managementAgileScrumcompetitive analysisuser storiesacceptance criteriafunctional requirementsnon-functional requirementsanalyticsproblem-solving
Soft skills
analytical skillscommunication skillsdocumentation skillsorganizational skillsdetail-orientedcollaborationcustomer-first mindsetability to manage multiple prioritiesautonomyadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreePragmaticProduct SchoolCSPO