Title: Product Improvement Manager Location: Field/Remote Full time Job requisition id R21762 Job Description: JOB SUMMARY: The Product Improvement Manager is responsible for evaluating hotels and developing Product Improvement Plans (PIPs) for Conversion, Reposition, Relicensing, and Renewal candidate hotels. This role partners closely with Franchise Development, Franchise Services, and Owner & Portfolio Strategy teams to support corporate net growth goals while ensuring brand standards, product quality, and consistency are maintained. The role provides expert recommendations to internal committees regarding hotel building suitability for brand approval decisions. ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT: - Operates as an individual contributor with no direct reports. - Exercises independent judgment within established brand standards and guidelines. - Influences brand quality, owner experience, and long‑term asset performance through renovation planning and negotiation. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: - Organize and schedule desktop and field‑based Product Improvement Plans (PIPs), clearly communicating timing, requirements, and expectations to all stakeholders. - Evaluate hotel surroundings, building age, and physical condition to develop comprehensive renovation plans aligned with brand standards and guest experience expectations. - Accurately assess and predict renovation scope of work required to achieve brand compliance and desired guest satisfaction outcomes. - Maintain current knowledge of brand direction, standards, and physical plant requirements. - Negotiate PIPs with licensees and internal stakeholders, balancing brand integrity with individual circumstances and approved concessions. - Educate and support internal and external stakeholders on renovation requirements, timelines, and the value of compliance. - Build and maintain strong working relationships with Franchise Development, Franchise Services, Owner & Portfolio Strategy teams, and licensees. - Manage travel, budgets, and expense reporting in alignment with company policies and fiscal responsibility standards. - Support administrative and cross‑functional initiatives as needed by the Product Improvement team. QUALIFICATIONS: - Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience. - Approximately 5+ years of experience in hotel operations, product improvement, renovations, or a related field. - Strong negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills. - Working knowledge of architectural, design, and construction fundamentals as applied to hospitality environments. - High attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently in a fast‑paced environment. - Strong verbal and written communication skills. - Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint). - Demonstrated ability to uphold Choice Hotels’ cultural values, including collaboration, integrity, inclusion, innovation, and customer focus. TRAVEL & OTHER REQUIREMENTS: - Ability to travel up to 25% as required COMPENSATION & SALARY RANGE: Salary Range: $114,907 - $135,000 This role is also eligible for an annual bonus under Choice’s Management Incentive Plan (MIP). Pay ranges listed are what Choice Hotels reasonably expects to pay. Actual pay may be higher or lower and ranges may be adjusted in the future. Pay positioning within the range is influenced by factors including—but not limited to—education, experience, skills, certifications, performance, geographic location, business needs, seniority, and travel requirements. Choice prioritizes our associate wellbeing by offering a comprehensive benefits program that is both competitive and flexible to help you achieve your wellbeing goals - here are just a few: - Competitive compensation and benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage - Leave and paid time-off for holidays, vacation, personal, family, volunteer, sick, jury duty, bereavement, military, and religious observance - Financial benefits for retirement and health savings - Employee recognition programs - Discounts at Choice hotels worldwide About Choice Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With 7,500 hotels in 45+ countries and territories, we offer a range of high-quality lodging options in the upper upscale, upper midscale, midscale, extended stay, and economy segments. We’re the hotel company for those who choose to bet on themselves — the striver, the dreamer, the entrepreneur — because that’s who we are, too. At Choice, we are united by the simple belief that tomorrow will be even better than today — for associates, our company, and our franchisees. At our worldwide corporate headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland, at our technology center in Scottsdale, Arizona, and through our associates around the globe, every voice is heard and every idea is listened to, no matter what area of the company they come from. We are united in supporting the entrepreneurial dreams of our thousands of franchise owners, which propels us forward — giving our work at Choice a purpose larger than our business. Our corporate office locations: North Bethesda, MD — Located at Pike & Rose, our worldwide headquarters is less than 15 miles from Washington, D.C., one block away from the North Bethesda Metro station, with easy access to I-495, complimentary parking, electronic charging stations, restaurants and retail. Scottsdale, AZ — Located at the northwest corner of Loop 101, the Scottsdale office is home to our technology, eCommerce and customer service organizations, with easy access to complimentary parking, electronic charging stations, restaurants and retail. Minneapolis, MN — Select roles are based in our Minneapolis office on Highway 394, near the intersection with Highway 100, only five minutes from downtown. Field/Remote — Select roles designated as field/remote will require associates to work from a home office, connecting virtually with Choice team members and leadership on Zoom, with possible required travel depending on the role. Choice’s Cultural Values Welcome and Respect Everyone | Be Bold | Be Quick | Listen | Be Curious | Show Integrity Choice’s Leadership Principles Act with Intention | Lead with Authenticity | Grow & Deliver

Role Description If you are looking for a career at a dynamic company with a people-first mindset and a deep culture of growth and autonomy, ACV is the right place for you! Competitive compensation packages and learning and development opportunities, ACV has what you need to advance to the next level in your career. We’re hiring a Product Manager to lead our Order Management Systems platform, focusing on ensuring orders flow accurately and reliably from capture through financial settlement. As a Product Manager for our Order Management Systems team you will sit at the intersection of: - Order lifecycle and transactional flows (capture, fulfillment status, completion) - Financial systems and ERP integration (NetSuite settlement and accounting) - Internal operations tooling for ops teammates running the order book day to day - Event-driven orchestration that informs downstream teams of completed transactions and orders This role directly impacts revenue recognition accuracy, operational throughput, and organizational confidence in our data across the platform. Your team will help build the customer-facing experiences and the internal management layers on top, but your role extends to encompass the integrity, completeness, and timeliness of the underlying order management and settlement layer. By improving reliability, reducing reconciliation gaps, and providing dependable event streams, you enable faster, more accurate decision-making across the organization. Qualifications - 4+ years industry (Auto-tech) / Product Management experience, ideally including time on a platform, financial systems, or order management product area. - Experience owning order management, financial settlement, or transactional platform product areas, including ERP integration (NetSuite a strong plus), event-driven architectures, and internal operations tooling. - Strong understanding of transactional system hygiene, including idempotency, reconciliation, event delivery semantics (at-least-once vs. exactly-once), data lineage, and the processes required to maintain trusted, auditable financial and operational data flows. - Demonstrated success in identifying and implementing automation or system improvements that reduce manual ops effort, accelerate financial close, or improve event reliability for downstream consumers. - Proven track record of leading the end-to-end delivery of complex, technical platform products, from ideation through to launch and iteration, consistently driving measurable business impact for internal customers (Finance, Ops, downstream product teams). - Ability to drive product strategy by translating complex transactional and financial flows into actionable insights, which requires a strong quantitative toolkit including hands-on proficiency in SQL, structured rollout and validation design, and a deep understanding of platform metrics architecture (throughput, latency, error rates, reconciliation accuracy). - Experience working cross-functionally with engineering teams and with non-engineering internal customers such as Finance and Operations. - Agile experience and release planning prioritization skills. - Presentation skills - Ability to simplify complex transactional systems and financial flows for non-technical stakeholders. - Mentoring and coaching skills. - Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Information Systems, or similar). Advanced degrees are a plus. Requirements - Own the OMS platform end to end, including the financial aggregation layer feeding NetSuite settlement and accounting, the internal order management tools used by ops teammates, and the event producers that notify downstream teams of completed transactions and orders. - Lead as the connective tissue between Engineering, Finance, Internal Operations, and the downstream product teams that consume order and transaction events. - Partner with engineering and Finance to define settlement, reconciliation, and revenue recognition flows that are accurate, auditable, and aligned to financial close timing requirements. - Define and own platform SLAs: order throughput, event delivery latency, settlement accuracy, and reconciliation completeness. - Employ a hypothesis-driven approach to internal ops tooling investments, converting ambiguity and assumptions into a clear framework for validation via structured rollouts, ops user feedback, and operational metrics. - Ensure data quality and reliability across the transactional layer, including idempotency, reconciliation, event replay, and recovery from upstream or downstream failure. - Translate complex transactional flows spanning order capture, settlement, and event distribution into actionable insights that drive product prioritization and unblock internal customers. - Improve operational throughput and reduce manual work for ops teammates by identifying high-leverage workflow improvements in the OMS surface. - Guide product strategy by evaluating and clearly communicating critical trade-offs between system complexity, time-to-market, and operational or financial risk. - Define and own a 6–12 month roadmap across Order Management, ERP/Settlement integration, and Event Orchestration. - Articulate and advocate for platform strategy, roadmap, and business outcomes to executive leadership to secure buy-in and alignment. Benefits - Multiple medical plans including a high deductible, low cost health plan. - Company-sponsored (paid) Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance. - Comprehensive optional benefits such as Dental, Vision, Supplemental Life/AD&D, Legal/ID Protection, and Accident and Critical Illness Insurance. - Generous paid time off options, including uncapped vacation days, the greater of 3 paid sick days or in accordance with the applicable state or local paid sick leave law, 6 paid company holidays, 2 floating holidays, parental leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, voting leave, and other forms of paid leave as required by applicable law or regulation. - Employee Stock Purchase Program with additional opportunities to earn stock in the Company. - Retirement planning through the Company’s 401(k). Company Description ACV is a technology company that has revolutionized how dealers buy and sell cars online. We are transforming the automotive industry with innovation and user-designed, data-driven applications and solutions. Our network of brands includes: - ACV Auctions - ACV Transportation - ClearCar - MAX Digital - ACV Capital - True360 - Data Services

Role Description Supports the execution of PartsTech's core search platform, working in close partnership with OEC's data & applied AI function to deliver AI/ML-driven improvements while independently owning the shop facing experience and related areas. Drives end-to-end product execution. - Own the product roadmap for PartsTech's core search and results experience, including search flyout, search history, vehicle lookup, filters, product details, diagrams, brand preferences, and related search surfaces. - Work with leadership to establish the product vision and strategy for the Search product squad. - Implement OKRs and success metrics, maintaining a measurement first culture. - Develop and manage A/B experiments to improve key search metrics including conversion rate, GMV lift, and user satisfaction, applying rigorous analysis to validate or challenge hypotheses before scaling. - Lead shop facing search UX and frontend product delivery, partnering directly with product design as well as frontend and backend engineers to design, sequence, and ship new features. - Own supplier facing merchandising tooling, including carousels, featured information, brand preferences, and related supplier driven experiences. - Own search indexing and drive ranking, relevance, and recommendation engine optimizations in partnership with OEC's Data Science and Applied AI teams. - Perform discovery with customers and stakeholders to understand marketplace needs and identify product opportunities, using both qualitative user research and quantitative data to prioritize, validate, and drive product decisions. - Collaborate with customer-facing teams to enable sales, implementation, and go-to-market execution for new search initiatives. Present product updates, roadmap strategies, and performance metrics to multi departmental stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency across the organization. - Drive end-to-end product execution by writing clear PRDs and high-quality user stories with thoughtful acceptance criteria, maintaining a prioritized product backlog, leading trade-off discussions with key partners, and hosting development ceremonies to keep the Search squad aligned and moving forward. Qualifications - A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is required, with a focus in Economics, STEM concentration, or related analytical discipline. In the absence of a degree, equivalent work experience directly related to the key responsibilities of the role will be considered as a substitute for the degree. Requirements - At least 5 years of experience in search product management. - Prior experience in dedicated search, discovery, or related role within B2B marketplaces or e-commerce. - Direct experience shipping search or discovery products in a marketplace or e-commerce context with accountability for search conversion metrics and demonstrable GMV or revenue impact. - Hands-on experience with search backend systems including indexing strategy, query processing, retrieval architectures, or search engine platforms (e.g., OpenSearch, Elasticsearch). - Demonstrated experience working with data science and Applied AI/ML teams. - A proven track record owning product delivery in both customer facing search experiences and internal/admin/merchandising tooling surfaces. - Significant experience using both qualitative user research and quantitative data to identify areas of opportunity and inform prioritization. - Experience collaborating with product marketing to develop and execute go-to-market strategies. - Ability to design and manage A/B experiments to optimize search or discovery metrics, with a bias toward measurement and instrumentation. - Comfortable working with product analytics tools (e.g., Segment, Pendo, Sigma). - Can effectively coordinate cross-team integration work and manage dependencies across multiple squads. - Strong business acumen, with an ability to articulate the value of search improvements in terms of revenue impact, customer retention, and competitive differentiation. - Excellent communication and storytelling skills, and confident presenting product updates and strategy to technology and business leaders. Benefits - Full benefits starting Day 1: Medical, Dental, and Vision. - 401(k) with company match. - Unlimited Paid Flex Time Off plus 10 company-paid annual holidays. - Remote-first role with monthly communication stipend. - Professional development programs, tuition assistance. - One-time home office equipment stipend upon hire. - Employee resource groups and exclusive employee discounts.

Role Description Join the IPG Team! Are you ready to elevate your career? At IPG, we are more than just a global leader in packaging and protective solutions—we are a community that values safety, people, passion, integrity, performance, and teamwork. This role is remote but will report to our Corporate Office in Sarasota, FL, and does require some travel. Position Description - Title: Product Manager - Status: Exempt Position Purpose Develop, and execute product line strategies and initiatives, by leading a cross-functional team, which drive Sales and Profit growth and Long-Term Sustainability of the Product Line. Principal Accountabilities - Responsible for the Product Line Profit and Loss of assigned product line(s). - Champion development of a product line strategy for key items. - Become a market expert in the customers and end users in targeted market segments. - Define target markets, competitors in those markets, competitive products with features and benefits and compare to company products, product pricing positioning and improvements that must be made to enhance product line performance. - Drive the development and introduction of new products into the markets targeted ensuring fitness for use in design, appropriate cost to meet the targeted price point, proper packaging and development of key features and benefits information for marketing and sales support. - Continuously analyze the product line to rationalize products to drive a reduction in complexity. - Develop and execute the tools and training needed to develop and maintain sales force competency to drive new product sales and provide superior customer service. - Identify new sourced and manufactured products needed to profitably grow key product lines. - Drive cost reductions or improvement in design of existing products based on changing market needs. - Lead an effective high-performance business team to deliver objectives. - Use and continually develop leadership skills. - Facilitate new item set-up, pricing approvals, quoting and other sales support as needed. - Related tasks as requested by supervisor. Qualifications - Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field. - 5+ years of demonstrated success in Product Management or related experience. - Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence at all levels of the organization. - Passion for product lines being managed and a bias for action. - Demonstrated experience in driving change and holding others accountable for results. - Business acumen and experience managing and improving P&L results. - Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while meeting set deadlines. - Proficient in Microsoft Office suite. - Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Effective communication and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to work with cross-functional teams. - Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment. - Required to travel ~25% of the time, some international travel. Benefits - Competitive pay. - Extensive benefits that support you and your family. - Exciting career development opportunities. - Ongoing training and support to enhance skills and advance your career. Company Description At IPG, you will find more than just a job—you will find a place where your success is our success. We pride ourselves on a culture built around strong relationships, where every team member plays a crucial role in our growth. Our commitment to sustainability influences everything we do, from designing eco-friendly products to minimizing waste in our production processes. With over 40 years of industry expertise and a proven track record of growth and innovation, IPG offers a stable, secure environment where you can flourish!