Associate Product Manager
About The Position
The Associate Product Manager supports product discovery and delivery while developing the foundational skills needed to lead Copart products. The role combines customer empathy, commercial judgment, data-informed decision-making, and hands-on execution in a fast-moving environment. The Associate Product Manager works across functions and geographies to turn complex needs into simple, scalable solutions. The position is based in Copart’s San Francisco office and includes travel to operating locations, the Dallas headquarters, and customers as needed. The role partners with teams across the company to advance product strategy, deliver solutions, assess outcomes, and support adoption.
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 product vision and roadmap for early-career product management.
- Research and understand the needs of buyers, sellers, partners, employees, and operations through data, direct observation, and other research.
- Translate enterprise priorities into measurable customer and business outcomes.
- Make tradeoffs based on value, effort, risk, and strategic fit.
- Partner with Engineering, Design, Data, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Security, and other teams to deliver solutions.
- Write product requirements, define acceptance criteria, and maintain an actionable backlog.
- Establish release plans, manage dependencies, and remove barriers to execution.
- Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, accessible, and supportable.
- Evaluate product performance using qualitative and quantitative evidence and prioritize improvements.
- Run structured experiments and use the learning to inform 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 a strategy, roadmap, measurable outcomes, and transparent reporting and operating rhythms for decisions, risks, delivery, and results.
- Build alignment with Product, Technology, Operations, and Business Leadership and deliver priority capabilities with high quality and disciplined execution.
- Improve customer or employee experience, adoption, efficiency, revenue, risk, or other agreed product outcomes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
