Product Manager, Vehicle Accessories & Merchandise, Entry Level at Jobright.ai Hawthorne, CA

Job Summary

Tesla is seeking a Product Manager focused on Vehicle Accessories to join their Global Vehicle Accessories and Merchandise team. This role involves overseeing the product roadmap for multiple hardware products, conducting market research, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring that best-in-class products are developed and launched according to the global product roadmap.

• Own and maintain a product roadmap for multiple hardware products across multiple vehicle models
• Lead market research, customer feedback and competitive diligence and analysis to build market and product requirements, documentation and inform engineering efforts
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to define, implement and track product development activities such as prototyping, design release, validation, tooling kickoff and production ramp
• Work with teams including Design, Engineering, Digital, Legal, Finance, Supply Chain, Service and Operations to deliver a seamless product experience
• Collaborate with Supply Chain teams to prospect, select and configure product and sub-product manufacturers which meet product intent, capacity, quality and compliance requirements
• Execute all release and administrative work streams related to launching and maintaining engineered products on the Tesla Shop
• Define a set of metrics to measure customer satisfaction and product performance, and use these to analyze and make future decisions around the lifecycle of product portfolio. Create and drive continuous architectural improvements on the business' platforms, work streams and processes to maintain operational excellence

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent product-related/business degree or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience in product management, product development and shipping quality products with evidence of customer impact and exceptional ability
• Demonstrated ability to execute many projects and tasks in parallel, across teams, in a short timeframe with the ability to pivot rapidly
• Passionate about working with other businesses and partners to solve their specific challenges while putting customer trust and experience first
• Proven history of converting learnings from customer insights into tangible product features that customers love
• Entrepreneurial instincts with clear bias for informed action and track record of leading new initiatives with limited resources and support
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with ability to use data and metrics for making assumptions and decisions
• Excellent written and verbal communications across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Tesla is an electric vehicle and clean energy company that provides electric cars, solar, and renewable energy solutions. Founded in 2003, headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, team size 10,001+ employees, currently a public company. Tesla has a track record of offering H1B sponsor ships.