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Founded in 2005 by Scott Painter, TRUECar was built on the belief that serving membership and affinity organizations central to the car-buying process, including lenders, insurers, and dealers, enables a more valuable auto-buying experience for new and used vehicles. As part of its platform, TRUECar powers auto-buying programs for over 250 leading brands, including Sam's Club, AAA, and more than 100 credit unions.\nWe are seeking talented individuals who are energized by our commitment to save consumers time and money. We’ve stripped away typical corporate \"bloat\" to build a culture rooted in high performance and accountability for results. As a member of the TRUECar Crew, you can have a real & direct impact on our success as we continue to evolve the car buying experience. If this energizes you, apply today!\nYour TRUECar Experience\nAt TRUECar, we offer our Crew members the flexibility to split their work time between home and the office. While many days are remote, we expect our Crew to show up for the moments that matter-gathering in person when a project needs that extra collaborative spark because nothing replaces the energy of solving big problems in the same room. We provide you with comfortable shared workspaces in our Santa Monica headquarters office and other regional locations and equip you with a professional home office setup along with monthly reimbursements for your essentials, like phone and internet.\nAs a TRUECar Crew member, you will receive excellent benefits and perks that include, but are not limited to, 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental premiums; a 401(k) plan with company contributions; a wellness reimbursement account; and learning & development reimbursement opportunities. We also understand the importance of recharging, so we offer flexible PTO for exempt TRUECar Crew Members and a generous PTO accrual policy for non-exempt TRUECar Crew Members, in addition to 14 company-paid holidays and 2 floating holidays. In short, we care deeply about our Crew Members and have designed employee-centric programs that reflect this.\nAt TRUECar, we believe in the power of diversity to create a deeper understanding of our consumers and partners, driving innovation in our products. We welcome a workforce that reflects the diversity of car-buying consumers and encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable law. Additionally, TRUECar will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.\nTRUECar does not accept unsolicited agency submissions.\nIf you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents, linkedhere.\nThe Opportunity:\nTrueCar is hiring a strategic Program Manager, Market Intelligence to turn our vast automotive dataset into actionable insights. 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The Program Manager will also manage day-to-day relationships with third-party market data and research suppliers and build and maintain dashboards providing internal leadership visibility into market trends and initiative progress.\nHow you’ll drive TRUECar’s success:\nLead the brainstorming, development, analysis, and publication of recurring and ad hoc insights that help educate TRUECar customers/industry, and are used within our digital experiences and PR/Marketing initiatives.\nCoordinate ongoing program management for key companywide, multi-department initiatives.\nOwn program roadmaps, publication and release calendars, milestones, and status reporting for these initiatives; facilitate cross-functional working sessions, updates, and executive readouts.\nPartner closely with Analytics to structure narratives before production begins: define the key question, findings, supporting evidence, and the best format for the audience (analyst talking points, white papers, market reports, presentations, or interactive experiences).\nCoordinate end-to-end delivery of public-facing and executive-facing insight deliverables, including press and industry-event support.\nEstablish and maintain a documented review process - methodology, fact-checking, source and unit clarity, legal review, and sign-off so every published insight is accurate, defensible, and on-brand.\nManage day-to-day relationships with third-party market data and research suppliers, including onboarding, relationship oversight, issue escalation, and resolution.\nDevelop and monitor key market intelligence dashboards that give department and executive leadership visibility into market trends, supplier performance, and initiative progress.\nPartner with Legal and Finance on supplier agreements/renewals.\nThink critically and recommend solutions to complex, cross-functional problems spanning programs, suppliers, and reporting.\nWork independently with minimal oversight, managing multiple concurrent initiatives, supplier relationships, and reporting deliverables at once.\nYour Expertise:\n4+ years of progressively responsible program or project management experience, including data/analytics, research, or content/insight publishing activities and internal/external stakeholders.\nEditorial and/or analytics-oriented experience associated with creating automotive research/insights for consumers, dealers, automotive industry suppliers, and general/business media outlets.\nProven ability to lead cross-functional, companywide initiatives across multiple departments and stakeholder groups.\nEffective communication, both verbal and written, with multiple levels (internally and externally), including the ability to explain nuanced data trends in clear, plain language to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nResults-oriented with an ability to execute and complete deliverables in a timely manner across multiple concurrent projects.\nWorking knowledge of data visualization and storytelling principles, and the judgment to know which format best serves the story and audience.\nDemonstrated experience using AI tools (such as Claude) to accelerate analysis, drafting, and validation of work. Strong capability in TRUECar preferred tools and office productivity suites (Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Tableau, Claude, etc.).\nUp to 10% travel, including occasional industry events.\nAutomotive industry experience is required.\nDetail-oriented and disciplined in accuracy, tracking, fact-checking, multi-tasking, and proactive problem-solving. 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