Associate Product Manager

About the Role

The Associate Product Manager will support product discovery and delivery while building the foundational skills required to lead Copart products. This role will combine customer empathy, commercial judgment, data-informed decision-making, and hands-on execution to advance early-career product management. The successful candidate will operate effectively in a fast-moving environment, work across functions and geographies, and turn complex needs into simple, scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy and Customer Insight
• Define a clear product vision and roadmap for early-career product management.
• Develop a deep understanding of buyer, seller, partner, employee, and operational needs through research, data, and direct observation.
• Translate enterprise priorities into measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Make explicit tradeoffs based on value, effort, risk, and strategic fit.
• Execution and Delivery
• Partner with Engineering, Design, Data, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Security, and other teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Write clear product requirements, define acceptance criteria, and maintain an actionable backlog.
• Establish release plans, manage dependencies, and remove barriers to execution.
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, accessible, and supportable.
• Measurement and Continuous Improvement
• Use qualitative and quantitative evidence to evaluate product performance and prioritize improvements.
• Run structured experiments and convert learning into roadmap decisions.
• Communicate progress, risks, decisions, and results with clarity.
• Collaboration and Change Leadership
• Build trust with field and corporate stakeholders and engage users early throughout discovery and delivery.
• Create practical adoption plans, training, communications, and feedback loops.
• Model ownership, disciplined decision-making, and follow-through.
• Represent the product perspective in cross-functional planning and executive discussions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Familiarity with agile product development, experimentation, analytics, and modern cloud platforms.
• Ability to work from Copart’s Dallas office and travel to operating locations and customers as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience; internship or project experience in product, analytics, design, engineering, or operations preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to define ambiguous problems, align stakeholders, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical, communication, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
• Experience partnering across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Operations, and business functions.