Product Manager - Relocate to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Pinewood.AI•Fort Lauderdale, FL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Pinewood.AI is seeking an experienced Product Manager to join their Product Team and contribute to the development of their Automotive Intelligence Platform. This role is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is ideal for candidates already in the area or willing to relocate. The position is a hands-on product role within a SaaS environment, focusing on building software for automotive retail operations. The Product Manager will translate customer insights, business needs, and market opportunities into product priorities and software improvements that benefit automotive dealerships. The role involves working across various platform areas including vehicle sales, aftersales, parts, CRM, finance and insurance (F&I), reporting, and broader platform services. Collaboration with customers, dealership teams, engineering, UX, QA, and business stakeholders is essential to understand challenges and deliver effective solutions for end-to-end dealership workflows. The ideal candidate is curious, commercially minded, highly organized, and comfortable engaging in customer conversations, product strategy, and hands-on delivery.

Requirements

Previous experience as a Product Manager in a software, SaaS or technology environment.
Experience in automotive retail, dealership operations, Dealer Management Systems (DMS), automotive technology or enterprise software.
Experience with one or more relevant automotive product areas, such as vehicle sales, inventory, CRM, accounting, Fixed ops/service, parts, F&I, reporting or dealership operations.
Strong understanding of the full product lifecycle, from discovery and research through delivery, launch and measurement of business value.
Proven experience gathering, interpreting and prioritizing customer, user and business requirements.
Strong ability to write user stories, define acceptance criteria and translate complex business needs into clear product requirements.
Ability to think strategically about product direction, market trends and competitive positioning while remaining comfortable working hands-on with delivery teams.
Experience leading, coaching or mentoring product, delivery or project-focused colleagues.
Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced SaaS environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data and customer insight to support product decisions.
Commercially minded, with a focus on customer value, business outcomes and measurable product impact.
Highly organized, proactive and detail-oriented, with the confidence to make decisions and clearly communicate prioritization.
Experience with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Figma or similar product and delivery platforms.
Experience working in Agile environments, with familiarity with Scrum, Kanban, Lean or similar methodologies.

Nice To Haves

Relocate to Fort Lauderdale for the role.

Responsibilities

Own and develop product areas within the Pinewood.AI platform, ensuring they align with customer needs, business objectives and overall product strategy.
Build a deep understanding of automotive dealership operations and translate customer challenges into meaningful product opportunities.
Lead product discovery activities, including customer interviews, user research, data analysis, market research and stakeholder engagement.
Monitor market trends, competitive activity, emerging technologies and evolving customer expectations to help inform product strategy.
Own and prioritize the product backlog, balancing customer value, commercial impact, technical considerations and delivery capacity.
Define clear product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and measurable success criteria.
Partner closely with Engineering, Architecture, QA, UX and Project Delivery to ensure requirements are understood and products are delivered effectively.
Lead, coach and support Associate Product Managers and Project Delivery Managers, ensuring their work remains aligned with product priorities and delivery objectives.
Contribute to product roadmaps and help communicate priorities, strategy and product direction across the organization.
Use customer feedback, product data and business metrics to make informed product decisions and measure the impact of releases.
Act as a key product partner for Account Management, Implementation, Partner Support, Engineering and other internal teams.
Support product communications, including release plans, product updates, feature benefits and delivery timelines.
Participate in feature reviews and sign-off, ensuring product changes meet customer needs, quality standards and business objectives.
Build strong relationships with automotive dealers, customers, partners and manufacturers to understand real-world use cases and validate product direction.
Represent the voice of the customer while balancing commercial and technical considerations in product decisions.