Product Manager

** Relentless Curiosity.
** We seek to understand and improve our customers’ experience.
** Smart Risk-Taking.
** We transform risk into progress through data, experience, and intuition.
* Own the Backlog:
Maintain the product backlog, ensuring it accurately reflects business priority, as well as new ideas and customer feedback.
* Prioritize and Plan:
Prioritize work into sprints to deliver features as aligned with the overall product roadmap. Set direction and lead development team to accomplish sprint goals and deliver high-quality product features.
* Technical Partnership:
Work closely with the Engineering and Platform team to align on technical solutions and best practices for continuous delivery.
* Design

Collaboration:

Collaborate seamlessly with UI/UX designers to improve the product's usability and overall user experience as applicable.
* A genuine passion for building impactful technology products.
* Strong communication and empathy to conduct effective customer discovery.
* The ability to see the big picture, while executing with exceptional attention to detail
* Proven experience in a role focused on product delivery, backlog management, and leading software development cycles.
* A growth mindset for emerging technologies, specifically an enthusiasm for embracing and leveraging AI tools across product discovery, documentation, data analysis and prototyping.
* Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
* A minimum of 5+ years of total experience in the software development lifecycle, with at least 3 years as a dedicated Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Product Manager.
* Demonstrated success defining, developing, and launching excellent product features for web and/or mobile applications.
* Experience in Agile software development methodologies such as Scrum
* Customer-Focused Problem Solver:
Possesses strong analytical and creative skills, with a deep ability to comprehend the business context and market problems driving product development.
* Strategic Leadership:
Possesses strong leadership and influencing skills to drive outcomes across cross-functional teams without formal authority, successfully rallying teams toward common product objectives.
* Collaboration & Negotiation:
Proven skills in collaboration, negotiation, and conflict resolution within a dynamic team environment.
* Executive Communication:
Excellent communication skills required to effectively interact with customers, technical individuals, business partners, and executives at all organizational levels.
* Proficiency in Google/Microsoft Office Suite, primarily Sheets, Excel, Slides or  PowerPoint.
* Experience working with remote and/or offshore development teams is beneficial.
* Familiarity with customer relationship management and/or web analytics platforms are a plus
* Competitive pay
* Medical, dental, and vision benefits with employer HSA contributions (US) and FSA options (US)
* Immediately vested 401K (US) or RRSP (Canada) with company match
* Paid Vacation, Personal, and Sick Time
* Paid maternity and paternity leave (US)
* Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D (US)
* Robust Employee Assistance Program
* Employer paid Leap into Service Day to volunteer
* Tuition Reimbursement for eligible programs
* Opportunities to expand your skill set and share your knowledge across a publicly traded, global organization
* Company culture of internal promotions, diverse career paths, and meaningful advancement
** OPENLANE makes wholesale easy so our customers can be more successful. Our end-to-end platform serves the remarketing needs of the world’s largest OEMs, dealers, fleet operators, rental companies and financial institutions.
**** We’re a technology company
** delivering next generation tools to accelerate and simplify remarketing.
** We’re an analytics company
** leveraging data to inform and empower our customers with clear, actionable insights.
** And we’re an auction company
** powering the world’s most advanced digital used vehicle  2021, OPENLANE sold nearly 2.6 million vehicles valued at over $40 billion through our auctions and generated approximately $2.3 billion…