Associate Product Manager

Copart•San Francisco, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Copart is seeking an Associate Product Manager to support product discovery and delivery while developing the skills to lead products. The role combines customer empathy, commercial judgment, data-informed decision-making, and hands-on execution to advance early-career product management. The successful candidate will work across functions and geographies in a fast-moving environment, translating complex needs into simple, scalable solutions. The Associate Product Manager will develop product strategy and customer insight; partner with cross-functional teams to execute and deliver solutions; measure product performance and drive continuous improvement; and support collaboration, adoption, and change leadership. The position is based in Copart’s San Francisco office and includes travel to operating locations, Dallas headquarters, and customers as needed. Success will be measured by establishing clear strategy and outcomes, building stakeholder alignment, delivering priority capabilities, improving agreed product outcomes, and creating transparent reporting and decision-making rhythms.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
Demonstrated ability to define ambiguous problems, align stakeholders, and deliver measurable outcomes.
Strong analytical, communication, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
Experience partnering across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Operations, and business functions.
Familiarity with agile product development, experimentation, analytics, and modern cloud platforms.
Ability to work from Copart’s San Francisco office and travel to operating locations, Dallas headquarters, and customers as needed.

Nice To Haves

Internship or project experience in product, analytics, design, engineering, or operations.

Responsibilities

Define a clear product vision and roadmap for early-career product management.
Develop an understanding of buyer, seller, partner, employee, and operational needs through research, data, and direct observation.
Translate enterprise priorities into measurable customer and business outcomes.
Make explicit tradeoffs based on value, effort, risk, and strategic fit.
Partner with Engineering, Design, Data, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Security, and other teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
Write product requirements, define acceptance criteria, and maintain an actionable backlog.
Establish release plans, manage dependencies, and remove execution barriers.
Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, accessible, and supportable.
Use qualitative and quantitative evidence to evaluate product performance and prioritize improvements.
Run structured experiments and turn learning into roadmap decisions.
Communicate progress, risks, decisions, and results clearly.
Build trust with field and corporate stakeholders and engage users throughout discovery and delivery.
Create adoption plans, training, communications, and feedback loops.
Model ownership, disciplined decision-making, and follow-through.
Represent the product perspective in cross-functional planning and executive discussions.
Establish transparent reporting and an operating rhythm for decisions, risks, delivery, and results.