Staff Product Manager driving product development and creating new revenue streams with Spare. Overseeing cross-cutting product domain and collaborating with engineers, designers, and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Take full ownership of a cross-cutting product domain, overseeing its multi-squad strategy, development, and lifecycle management across multiple teams.
Define and communicate a clear, long-term product vision, multi-year strategy, and objectives for your domain, connecting them to company-level priorities.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including multiple engineering squads, design, marketing, sales, and partner success, to align product development with business objectives.
Analyze data, conduct customer research, and engage with customer-facing teams and integration partners to identify market trends, customer needs, and opportunities that shape Spare's broader product direction.
Work collaboratively with your teams to generate innovative product solutions, bringing your unique product vision and systems thinking to address complex customer feedback and unmet needs.
Act as an evangelist for your product domain both internally and externally, creating enthusiasm and excitement for future developments and representing Spare in senior customer and industry conversations.
Be responsible for domain-level product roadmaps, product strategy, resource allocation, and release schedules across multiple squads and initiatives.
Bridge the gap between internal and external stakeholders — including senior leadership — to define product requirements, drive decisions, and ensure alignment on tradeoffs, priorities, and outcomes.
Mentor and up-level other Product Managers, sharing frameworks, feedback, and best practices that raise the bar for product management at Spare.
Requirements
5-8+ years managing technical software products from inception to launch and iteration.
Experience operating at a senior/principal/staff scope with complex, cross-team initiatives.
Proven experience working closely with enterprise customers and senior stakeholders, building relationships with key clients, and driving customer-centric product decisions that deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Proven experience in shipping products with exceptional user experiences at scale, across multiple surfaces or workflows.
Experience taking new products from concept to market, getting your first customers, scaling successful products, and evolving complex, existing products.
The ability to build strong relationships and influence internal stakeholders across different functional areas, including growth, engineering, marketing & design, and operations, often without formal authority.
Demonstrated capacity for thinking outside the box, potentially including entrepreneurial experience, with a track record of turning ambiguous problem spaces into clear strategies.
Ability to identify root causes of user and operational frustration in complex systems and go the extra mile to ensure product, customer, and team success.
With a strong understanding of software engineering (SWE), enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams and the ability to understand technical tradeoffs.
A degree in computer science, mathematics, a science-related field, or software engineering.
Entrepreneurial background.
Experience mentoring or leading other Product Managers.
Passion for or experience working in Transit/Mobility.
Hands-on experience building and scaling AI products.
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