Lead Product Manager at rover

Who we are:  Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us. We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet—and at Rover, our mission is to make it easier to experience that love. Founded in 2011, the Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe. We empower our community of trusted pet sitters and dog walkers to run their own pet care businesses on Rover with the tools and security of a global company to back them. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we work closely with our teams in Barcelona, San Antonio, Spokane, and remote locations. We’ve got a reputation for being a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. We're an agile, fast-growing company, and our leadership comes from some of the world's most respected tech companies.  At Rover, our furry coworkers are just as important as our human ones—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Along with making the joys of pet parenthood more accessible, we’re committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of pet people—and that starts with our employees. 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. Nice to have: • Product monetization expertise: Experience identifying and launching new monetization avenues, such as paid premium features, subscription models, tiered services, or monetization of SaaS tooling, that enhance provider success while expanding company revenue. Plus we are looking for these characteristics: • 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. Your Qualifications: • 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. Benefits of Working at Rover.com: • Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout • Pension plan • Private medical insurance • 25 days PTO • Meal allowance and flexible compensation plan (transport and nursery) • Gym membership • €450 to cover the costs associated with the adoption of a pet • Annual €150 wellness reimbursement • Flexible work hours, sometimes you'll need to be in at certain times, but on the whole, we're pretty flexible when it comes to managing workload and time • Grab snacks, fresh fruit, in our kitchen to keep yourself going • Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more • Dog-friendly office Rover is an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive, and inventive environment with the best employees. We’re driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, and we work to ensure everyone contributes to their fullest potential. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.