Job Description
A Day in the Life:
As one of the largest fleet owners in the world, reducing damage to our vehicles and collecting from responsible parties is critical to our profitability. Damages impact the rental fleet available to customers and the asset value.
As the Sr. Product Director Damages, you will own end-to-end product strategy, roadmap and execution for our Damage vertical. This includes customer facing features, internal tools and integration with external partners.
What You’ll Do:
In this role you will be responsible for a critical product area – Damages.
You will set the product vision, identify opportunities and build customer-facing products that raise the bar for customer experience.
You will own the roadmap for the product and guide engineering teams towards delivering the roadmap.
You will collaborate with internal stakeholders across UX, data science, BI, engineering, finance, legal, marketing, and operations.
You will also be expected to elevate the quality of data instrumentation and analytics across the product line including customer analytics and system performance (e.g. latency, up time).
You will be required to monitor emerging business and technology trends, build corresponding strategies, get buy in with senior execs (VP, C-level) and drive adoption.
What We’re Looking For:
10 + years of technical product experience, leading the end-to-end product lifecycle
Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy, prioritization and making complex trade-offs.
Demonstrated success building buy-in for an innovative and bold vision.
Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product.
Ability to understand, discuss, and challenge architectural concepts, tradeoffs, and new opportunities with technical team members.
Experience working in agile environments and running/participating in scrum teams.
Experience with product delivery. Balancing business and technical tradeoffs for a product
Leveraging analytical skills and ability to dive deep to develop a nuanced understanding of product/customers and creating effective strategies.
Ability to deal with ambiguity and make high quality/high impact decisions in the absence of data and figure out how to gather data (through experiments, tests, etc) to support decisions.
Ability to influence (without authority) cross-functional teams to deliver products.
Experience effectively influencing senior leaders (VP, C-level)
Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, applied math, data science, operation research or related field
MBA or master’s degree (preferred)
We expect the starting salary to be around $190,000 with annual bonus and profit sharing eligibility. The actual salary will be determined based on years of relevant work experience
What You’ll Get:
40% off any standard Hertz Rental
Paid Time Off
Medical, Dental & Vision plan options
Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching
Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
Employee Assistance Program for employees & family
Educational Reimbursement & Discounts
Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness
Perks & Discounts –Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more
The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world.
US EEO STATEMENT
At Hertz, we champion and celebrate a culture of diversity and inclusion. We take affirmative steps to promote employment and advancement opportunities. The endless variety of perspectives, experiences, skills and talents that our employees invest in their work every day represent a significant part of our culture – and our success and reputation as a company.
Individuals are encouraged to apply for positions because of the characteristics that make them unique.
EOE, including disability/veteran