Lead Product Manager, Rover

• You are a strategic thinker with deep marketplace experience, someone who understands the levers that drive supply-side success and is passionate about building sustainable, high-impact monetization products and value proposition for Rover providers
• The ideal candidate for this role brings a data-driven mindset, business acumen, customer centricity, and a builder’s curiosity, with a proven ability to translate economic principles into impactful product experiences
• Qualified candidates will ideally need experience across five key themes:
• Marketplace expertise: Experience and deep understanding of marketplace dynamics and product strategy
• You can navigate ambiguity to design, test, and scale product initiatives that balance value creation and perception across different type of customers, ensuring both sides of the marketplace feel fairly served while driving sustainable platform growth.ve liquidity, and drive sustainable growth on both sides of the marketplace
• Data-driven, customer focused decision making: You are fluent in both quantitative and qualitative insights
• You leverage data to uncover opportunity areas, measure elasticity, and evaluate the impact of pricing and monetization tests
• At the same time, you build rich customer narratives grounded in qualitative research
• You seamlessly balance analytical rigor with customer narratives, translating both numbers and stories into clear marketplace strategies and actionable execution plans
• Cross-functional leadership: You excel at bringing together product, engineering, design, analytics, marketing, and finance to define and deliver monetization initiatives
• You thrive in ambiguity, communicate effectively across disciplines, and ensure alignment toward shared goals
• Execution and iteration mindset: You combine strategic vision with operational excellence
• You are able to launch MVPs, measure impact rigorously, and iterate rapidly
• You maintain a balance between experimentation speed and quantitative and financial rigor
• You also know how to scale products once hypotheses are proven
• You have a true passion for Rover’s mission and values - and are highly motivated by the responsibility to continuously improve our provider experience and increase revenue growth
• You have an unlimited curiosity, always probing for the “why” behind user behavior, market shifts, and emerging technologies
• You know how to leverage qualitative and quantitative data to solve for ambiguous problems, make decisions and drive growth
• Above all, you seek the truth. You know your market, customers and competition better than anyone, and you excel at integrating this information into your decisions and tactics
• You can go get the information you need to validate your hypotheses and can synthesize it into what to do next
• You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away
• You never stop pushing towards clarity and delivery and bring your cross-functional partners along with you
• 7+ years of hands-on product experience. Experience in fast-paced environments is a plus
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills with strong technical abilities
• Very comfortable with SQL, Google Analytics, Tableau, Periscope, or other data visualization tools
• Experience with multivariate product experimentation frameworks
• Experience leading teams through challenging prioritization decisions, creating clear and transparent frameworks that lead to well defined and impactful roadmaps
• Proven ability to motivate teams to produce quality outcomes within challenging timeframes and ongoing change
• BS/MS/MBA in Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Experience working with remote stakeholders, specially engineering, design and data

Desirable

• We are seeking a Senior Product Manager who thrives at the intersection of marketplace economics and monetization innovation
• In this role, you will lead the development of alternative monetization, provider value added, and economic strategies that strengthen the value proposition for our providers and unlock new revenue streams for Rover
• You will work closely with engineering, design, data science, operations, and finance to craft monetization features and economic incentives that balance marketplace health with long-term revenue growth