Discovery Product Manager || Springfield, MO, (Onsite,)
Working with Implementation Partner
Experience : 10+ Years
Job Description:
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
Regards
Jitendra Chauhan
Technical Recruiter
jitendra@vsgbusinesssolutions.com
VSG Business Solutions Inc
3240 East State Street Ext., Suite 203
Hamilton NJ 08619
