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By combining technology, media and deep automotive expertise, we've turned how people buy, sell, advertise and lease cars on its head.\nWhat started as a simple reviews site is now one of the largest online car-changing destinations in Europe. Last year alone we grew over 50% with nearly £3bn worth of cars bought on site, while £1.8bn of cars were listed for sale through our Sell My Car service.\nIn 2024 we went big and acquired Autovia - creators of AutoExpress and Evo magazines - doubling our audience overnight. Together we now have one of the biggest YouTube channels in the world with almost 10m subscribers and over 1.1 billion annual views, while we sell 1.2 million print copies of our magazines and have an annual web content reach over 350million.\nAnd we’re a long way from done!\nTHE ROLE\nChanging your car should feel like one seamless journey, not a series of disconnected tasks. Right now it's the opposite: people value their car in one place, search for the next one in another, and manage the handover somewhere else, much of it on the web and most of it forgotten between car changes. The Carwow app is our most direct relationship with those customers, and today it is nowhere near what it could be.\nWe are reimagining it. If we can give people a reason to open Carwow between car changes, understand what they drive and what they want next, and make the moment of changing effortless, the app becomes the place UK drivers start. This role is the product voice at the table for that: setting the direction for what we build and working day to day with design and engineering to build it.\nThis is also a moment where AI changes what's possible. The best consumer apps of the next few years won't be lists with filters; they will understand you and act on your behalf. We want to build those things. The PM in this role will need the curiosity to explore what that could look like, the fluency to prototype it quickly with the latest tools, and the rigour to distinguish genuine value from noise.\nIf you want to shape a new consumer product from the ground up, work at the cutting edge of applied AI, and build things that millions of UK drivers could use, this is it.\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\nProduct Strategy & Execution:\nSet the product direction for the Carwow consumer app, defining what we build, in what order, and why\n\nLead discovery work with consumers: interviews, usage data, behavioural analysis, to build a precise understanding of where the app can add the most value\n\nIdentify, prototype and ship opportunities to bring AI into the app: smarter discovery, personalisation and recommendations that actually change behaviour\n\nCollaborate with the Engineering Manager, Designer and Engineers as a product trio to ship well-scoped solutions with clear success metrics\n\nManage the backlog with commercial awareness, prioritising work that drives engagement, retention and revenue, not just activity\n\nDesign & Engineering Partnership:\nWork shoulder to shoulder with design to shape journeys and screens from the ground up, and test them with users before engineering starts\n\nWork with engineers on the right trade-offs for a native app: release cadence, quality and what to build versus reuse\n\nUse AI tools every day in your own work, prototyping, synthesising research and analysing data, so the squad learns faster and ships more\n\nCross-functional Leadership:\nWork across product, engineering, data, CRM and marketing to align on priorities and ship coherently\n\nCommunicate strategy and trade-offs clearly to leadership and stakeholders, written as well as verbal\n\nOwn the app's success measures and bring clean evidence, including holdouts and controlled tests, to decisions on what to scale, change or stop\n\nWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n5+ years of product management experience, including time owning a consumer mobile app, with evidence of improving engagement or retention metrics\n\nHands-on experience with product discovery: you run your own interviews, interrogate your own data, and form your own hypotheses rather than waiting for research to land in your inbox\n\nAI-native: you use AI tools daily, you have shipped or prototyped AI-powered features, and you have a clear point of view on where it adds real value for consumers\n\nComfort with ambiguity: this role involves defining the problem as much as solving it, and the scope will evolve as evidence comes in\n\nA proven partnership with design and engineering: you have worked as a product trio and can hold a credible conversation about journeys, architecture and app quality\n\nClear written and verbal communication; you can explain a complex trade-off simply and bring people with you\n\nNICE TO HAVE\nExperience in automotive, marketplace or two-sided consumer products\n\nFamiliarity with habit loops and engagement design in a consumer app: push, onboarding, personalisation\n\nBackground in scale-up or high-growth environments\n\nExperience taking new products to market, including GTM planning and launch\n\nINTERVIEW PROCESS\nStep 1: Talent Screening Call (30 min)\n\nStep 2: Hiring Manager Call: Experience (45 min)\n\nStep 3: Case Study (60 min + Task)\n\nStep 4: Values Interview (45 min)\n\nWHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU\nHybrid working\n\nCompetitive salary to fund that dream holiday to Bali\n\nMatched pension contributions for a peaceful retirement\n\nShare options - when we thrive, so do you!\n\nBupa Private Healthcare, for peace of mind, plus eyecare vouchers\n\nLife Assurance for (even more) peace of mind\n\nMonthly coaching sessions with Spill - our mental wellbeing partner\n\nEnhanced holiday package, plus Bank Holidays\n28 days annual leave\n\n1 day for your wedding\n\n1 day off when you move house - because moving is hard enough without work!\n\nFor your third year anniversary, get 30 days of annual leave per year\n\nFor your tenth year anniversary, get 35 days of annual leave per year\n\nOption to buy 3 extra days of holiday per year\n\nWork from abroad for a month\n\nInclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies\n\nBubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees for little ones\n\nThe latest tech (Macbook or Surface) to power your gif-sending talents\n\nUp to £500/€550 home office allowance for that massage chair you’ve been talking about\n\nGenerous learning and development budget to help you master your craft\n\nRegular social events: tech lunches, coffee with the exec sessions, lunch 8 learns, book clubs, social events/anything else you pester us for\n\nRefer a friend, get paid. 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