Staff Product Manager

Role Overview

• Take full ownership of a cross-cutting product domain, overseeing its multi-squad strategy, development, and lifecycle management across multiple teams.
• Define and communicate a clear, long-term product vision, multi-year strategy, and objectives for your domain, connecting them to company-level priorities.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including multiple engineering squads, design, marketing, sales, and partner success, to align product development with business objectives.
• Analyze data, conduct customer research, and engage with customer-facing teams and integration partners to identify market trends, customer needs, and opportunities that shape Spare's broader product direction.
• Work collaboratively with your teams to generate innovative product solutions, bringing your unique product vision and systems thinking to address complex customer feedback and unmet needs.
• Act as an evangelist for your product domain both internally and externally, creating enthusiasm and excitement for future developments and representing Spare in senior customer and industry conversations.
• Be responsible for domain-level product roadmaps, product strategy, resource allocation, and release schedules across multiple squads and initiatives.
• Bridge the gap between internal and external stakeholders — including senior leadership — to define product requirements, drive decisions, and ensure alignment on tradeoffs, priorities, and outcomes.
• Mentor and up-level other Product Managers, sharing frameworks, feedback, and best practices that raise the bar for product management at Spare.

Requirements

• 5-8+ years managing technical software products from inception to launch and iteration.
• Experience operating at a senior/principal/staff scope with complex, cross-team initiatives.
• Proven experience working closely with enterprise customers and senior stakeholders, building relationships with key clients, and driving customer-centric product decisions that deliver meaningful business outcomes.
• Proven experience in shipping products with exceptional user experiences at scale, across multiple surfaces or workflows.
• Experience taking new products from concept to market, getting your first customers, scaling successful products, and evolving complex, existing products.
• The ability to build strong relationships and influence internal stakeholders across different functional areas, including growth, engineering, marketing & design, and operations, often without formal authority.
• Demonstrated capacity for thinking outside the box, potentially including entrepreneurial experience, with a track record of turning ambiguous problem spaces into clear strategies.
• Ability to identify root causes of user and operational frustration in complex systems and go the extra mile to ensure product, customer, and team success.
• With a strong understanding of software engineering (SWE), enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams and the ability to understand technical tradeoffs.
• A degree in computer science, mathematics, a science-related field, or software engineering.
• Entrepreneurial background.
• Experience mentoring or leading other Product Managers.
• Passion for or experience working in Transit/Mobility.
• Hands-on experience building and scaling AI products.

Benefits

• Offers Equity