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Product Manager — Discovery

B2B Automotive Parts Platform

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to own the Discovery product domain for a B2B digital platform serving professional automotive repair shops and commercial buyers. This role is responsible for how professional buyers find the right parts for the right vehicles — from initial search and catalog browsing through product details, pricing, availability, and order initiation.

The Discovery PM owns the end-to-end parts discovery experience, ensuring professional buyers can efficiently identify, validate, and act on the parts they need across a large, complex automotive catalog. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of catalog quality, vehicle-based navigation, commerce enablement, and platform data integrity.

The ideal candidate brings strong B2B or automotive e-commerce product thinking, experience with catalog and commerce platforms, and the ability to drive delivery in a complex enterprise environment with multiple stakeholders and technical dependencies.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Discovery domain — covering parts search, catalog browsing, vehicle-based part selection, product listing and detail pages, pricing and availability, order initiation, part interchange, and kits.

• Define and prioritize features based on professional buyer needs, business impact, catalog data quality, and technical feasibility.

• Build and maintain a structured product backlog with clear prioritization rationale — balancing quick wins against foundational platform investments.

• Develop PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria that are unambiguous and delivery-ready.

• Define measurable product goals, KPIs, and success metrics across all feature areas.

Customer Discovery & Buyer Insights

• Develop a deep understanding of the professional automotive buyer workflow — how shop owners, service advisors, and parts specialists search for parts, validate fitment, check availability, compare pricing, and initiate orders.

• Lead structured discovery activities — customer interviews, usability sessions, support ticket analysis, and usage data review — to identify friction in the parts discovery journey and validate product direction. 

• Translate buyer pain points and behavioral data into scalable product capabilities that improve discovery accuracy, speed, and confidence.

• Collaborate with internal product, QA, and business stakeholders to align on buyer needs before committing to development.

Catalog & Discovery Product Ownership

• Own the product strategy for parts search — including keyword and vehicle-based catalog lookup, part interchange (compatible and substitute parts), and kit-level product discovery.

• Define requirements for catalog enrichment — ensuring product listing and detail pages surface the right attributes, fitment data, imagery, and technical specifications that professional buyers need for purchase decisions.

• Own pricing and availability requirements — ensuring P&A data is accurate, timely, and surfaced at the right point in the buyer journey.

• Own the order initiation experience — defining how buyers move from discovery to order, including add-to-order flows from listing and detail pages and the stock order workflow.

Platform & Data Foundation

• Partner with engineering and data teams to define requirements for data sync, batch processing, and platform resilience — ensuring catalog accuracy, availability, and performance at scale.

• Define analytics instrumentation requirements — ensuring the right events, funnels, and dashboards are in place to measure catalog completeness, discovery effectiveness, and buyer engagement.

• Use analytics and experimentation to continuously improve catalog quality, discovery relevance, and conversion.

Delivery & Cross-functional Leadership

• Drive end-to-end feature delivery within an Agile delivery model — from story sign-off and technical design through development, integration, testing, and production release.

• Partner with engineering architects, API and frontend teams to ensure delivery aligns with product intent and quality standards.

• Communicate product priorities, trade-offs, and roadmap progress clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Manage dependencies across the Discovery domain and adjacent platform areas — pricing services, data pipelines, and platform integrations.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience with demonstrated ownership of a catalog, commerce discovery, or digital product domain.

• Strong understanding of catalog product fundamentals — attribute management, fitment logic, pricing display, availability logic, and catalog data quality.

• Experience owning product listing and product detail page experiences in a commerce or B2B platform context. 

• Proven ability to define product strategy and roadmap from discovery through post-launch iteration, backed by customer research and data.

• Experience writing PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria for complex, API-integrated product features. 

• Strong analytical skills — able to define and track product KPIs, interpret funnel and engagement analytics, and make data-informed prioritization decisions.

• Hands-on Agile delivery experience — sprint planning, backlog grooming, story writing, and release management.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across engineering, design, business, and executive audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in automotive aftermarket, parts commerce, or B2B procurement platforms — familiarity with vehicle selection, part fitment, interchange, and catalog complexity is a strong plus.

• Understanding of search and catalog discovery concepts — keyword search, faceted navigation, relevance, and personalization — from a product requirements perspective.

• Experience with AI/ML-driven catalog enrichment, personalization, or recommendation systems in a commerce context.

• Familiarity with pricing and availability services in a B2B commerce context — real-time P&A integration, tiered pricing, and inventory visibility.

• Experience with headless commerce, MFE (Micro Frontend) architectures, and API-first platform delivery.

• Exposure to cloud-based platform infrastructure and data pipeline management from a product requirements perspective.

• Experience defining analytics instrumentation and working with BI and analytics teams on product dashboards and experimentation frameworks.

• CSPO, SAFe POPM, or equivalent Agile certification.

Core Skills

• Parts Catalog & Discovery Product Management

• Vehicle-Based Navigation & Fitment Logic 

• Product Listing & Detail Page Ownership 

• Pricing & Availability Requirements 

• Catalog Quality & Data Enrichment 

• Order Initiation & Commerce Discovery Workflows 

• Part Interchange & Kits Product Strategy 

• Data Sync & Platform Resilience 

• Analytics Instrumentation & KPI Definition 

• Agile Product Delivery 

• B2B Buyer Discovery & Usability Research 

• Cross-functional Stakeholder Management