Senior Product Manager

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Cox Automotive is currently looking for a Sr Product Manager to join our dynamic Product Management team in the Inventory Management Group .
Your Role
The Sr 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 results to build the product roadmap; maintain the roadmap and ensure transparency in communication of deliverables with internal stakeholders and clients.
• Planning and Execution: Create Epics and Features that translate strategic product roadmap priorities into executable work that creates client and commercial value. Ensure a healthy pipeline of meaningful product work is consistently available for teams to consume. 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 between product, UX, engineering, architecture and solution discovery. Ensure teams understand the ultimate product vision and how to execute in a way that incrementally delivers value towards that vision.
• Commercialization Planning : Apply commercialization mindset to inform innovation and product development activities in collaboration with product management, business 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

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years' experience in a related field
• Ability to apply critical thinking skills to solve challenging problems for complex enterprise products; not afraid to ask hard questions and engage in difficult conversations to achieve the best outcome.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; can precisely articulate customer problems and solution value and effectively influence cross functional teams.
• Commercial mindset to inform product development and launch activities; can optimize for shipping a portfolio of small/medium releases to large product launches.
• Strong understanding of project management principles and how to effectively drive complex projects forward.
• Purpose-driven with the ability to motivate and excite others; strive for continuous improvement with bias towards action.
• Experience with Product planning/roadmap and project management tools.
• Excellent people skills and developing relationships with team members and customers.

About Cox
We are the Cox family of businesses. We've been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us. Our primary divisions - Cox Communications and Cox Automotive - are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators. We're also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation. We're looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow. Sound intriguing? Learn more about where we are today, where we hope you'll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com.
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.
Statement to ALL Third-Party Agencies and Similar Organizations: Cox accepts resumes only from agencies with which we formally engage their services. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Cox employees, Cox hiring manager, or send to any Cox facility. Cox is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.
USD 106,800.00 - 178,000.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $106,800.00 - $178,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
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, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.
About Cox Automotive
At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!
About Cox
Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!
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.
Statement to ALL Third-Party Agencies and Similar Organizations: Cox accepts resumes only from agencies with which we formally engage their services. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Cox employees, Cox hiring manager, or send to any Cox facility. Cox is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.