Lead Product Manager

Lead Product Manager

Cox Automotive is currently looking for a Lead Product Manager to join our dynamic Product Management team in the Inventory Management Group.

Your Role

The Lead Product Manager is responsible for developing, managing and optimizing one or more large and / or complex Product lines. This role will define and manage the product roadmap for a newly formed space and lead the discovery efforts to ensure roadmap priorities are aligned to deliver strategic, commercial and customer value.

To be successful in this role, the candidate must have a combination of knowledge and skills in product management, product marketing, operational execution, stakeholder engagement and communications. They must also be a strong people influencer and driver for a shared future vision.

Areas of Focus

• Product Strategy and Discovery : Lead the discovery process to formulate an in-depth understanding of problems by customer segment and personas with an understanding of the market and competitive landscape. Collaborate with business leaders to ensure product strategy and discovery efforts align to business objectives. Partner with cross-functional groups, stakeholders and clients to inform discovery efforts.
• Product Roadmap : Synthesize discovery into a transparent, outcome-oriented roadmap that sequences near-term wins and longer-horizon strategies; maintain the roadmap and ensure transparency in communication of deliverables with internal stakeholders and clients.
• Planning and Execution : Translate strategy into business outcomes, milestones, and epics; keep a healthy backlog that continuously delivers measurable value. Collaborate with Product Management and UX colleagues to ensure alignment across the product portfolio.
• Agile Development : Understand how to effectively apply agile methodologies in a complex, enterprise environment. Build effective relationships with onshore and offshore teams, including contractors, across product, UX, engineering, architecture and solution discovery. Ensure teams understand the product vision and how to execute in a way that incrementally delivers value towards that vision.
• Go-To-Market Planning : Apply commercialization mindset to inform innovation and product development activities in collaboration with business, operations, and marketing teams. Engage with implementation, training and technical support partners to ensure that product solutions balance operational scalability with cost and speed to market.
• Client Engagement : Engage with clients and client-proxies (e.g., sales, marketing, operations, performance management) throughout the discovery process to gather feedback and input on product ideas.
• Product Success : Assess product performance against KPIs and provide insights to improve product performance and inform future roadmap priorities.

What We Look For

Drug Testing

To be employed in this role, you'll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and / or in company vehicles is prohibited.

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

About Us

Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells or simply uses cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation / wellness days, and / or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer All qualified applicants / employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.