Senior Product Manager, Deal Engine

Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company recognized both locally and nationally across multiple workplace categories. Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated team members who are driven to succeed as professionals individually and together as a team. Backed by a strong product, exceptional people, and a stable financial foundation, we’ve grown into a leading provider of used and new car financing across the country.

Our Support teams work with multiple departments in a dynamic environment that promotes flexibility and autonomy, while offering the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of professionals. We work to comply with our company standards, exceed customer expectations, and drive our Great Place to Work culture. We deliver high-quality services aligned to business needs, driving innovative improvements that support our company strategy and modern operating principles.
The Senior Product Manager is a customer-centric advocate for specific customers of products and systems and are responsible for identifying and executing against opportunities. Their main responsibility is to enhance the end-to-end experience with the goal of increasing customer satisfaction and positively impacting the company’s revenue growth and other goals. Outcomes and Activities:

- This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to our Southfield, Michigan office may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at our Southfield, Michigan office if requested by the team member.

- Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by empathizing and understanding user needs, remaining focused on desired outcomes, and becoming the domain expert.

- Analyzes data through the lens of the customer and identifies goals, metrics/key performance indicators, and analytics to determine product value; continually making recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings, leading to continued improvement in owned metrics/key performance indicators.

- Creates an environment where the entire team is immersed in customer-first thinking and turns customer insights into actionable strategies and priorities across products.

- Takes ownership of business results and being a day-to-day decision maker, including communicating with and influencing key partners and stakeholders to deliver winning product experiences and outcomes.

- Conducts and monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class.

- Focuses on innovation and the disruption of status quo to identify improvements and new opportunities to gain a competitive advantage.

- Ensures the team is utilizing data with the right metrics to drive customer outcomes and ensures the right analysis is being done to prioritize appropriately.

- Effectively collaborates with technical and design teams to use the best modern technologies and deliver amazing products to market efficiently with quality.

- Has a deep understanding of product objectives and priorities and translates product concepts into user stories, epics, and other appropriate product deliverables while identifying and mitigating risks.

- Owns their product and is responsible for the delivery of that product and associated projects on time, on budget, on strategy, and with a superior level of quality and performance. Has a deep, end-to-end understanding of their products and how it fits into the business and is able to identify what impacts will occur due to other changes in the business.

- Proactively learns and recommends new technologies as a result of actively participating in technology/product forums as a product leader.

- Serves as the visionary to set vision and direction and champions high-impact outcomes; acts as a bridge between strategy and execution to translate plans into action, iterating as necessary.

- Champion of the end-to-end platform and is an expert in the systems a