Director, Product Management

Cox Communications • Austin, TX

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Product Management leads strategic cross-retail product initiatives spanning Cox Automotive's retail ecosystem, with primary focus on a high-impact OEM incentives modernization program. This role drives alignment across multiple release trains and delivery streams, managing capabilities that deliver mutual stakeholder value and seamless experiences across Cox Automotive's retail brands and products. Serving as the subject matter expert, this leader collaborates with Business and Operations leaders, Engineering, Architecture, and Solution Delivery to ensure delivery of industry-leading capabilities that result in excellent customer experiences across the retail ecosystem. Own the product strategy and roadmap for Incentives modernization, addressing business continuity risks and known challenges that will result in protecting core business, reducing churn and providing competitive differentiation. Define approaches for an enterprise OEM Incentives capability development that will result in significant impact on organizational success across the retail ecosystem. Partner and collaborate with business, operations and product leaders across Cox Automotive retail brands to ensure successful development, delivery, and adoption of enterprise capabilities that deliver on the expectations of a connected retail platform. Contribute to defining best practices for AI-native product development, cross-functional collaboration models, and modern product operating models. Monitor industry trends and competitive landscape for product, technical, and process changes, translating insights into strategic recommendations and investment priorities for Cox Automotive's retail ecosystem. Create metrics-based approaches to measure adoption, business impact, and ROI for identified enterprise initiatives. Actively develop talent within the product organization and create bench strength across enterprise product teams including succession planning for critical roles. Foster effective business relationships with all internal and external partners, vendors, and stakeholders across Cox Automotive's retail ecosystem and broader enterprise. Contribute to creation of overarching guidance for sales, marketing, and go-to-market strategy development across enterprise initiatives, ensuring alignment with business unit strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 10 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 8 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years' experience in a related field; or 14 years' experience in a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a leadership role managing cross-functional product initiatives.
• Proven experience driving enterprise-wide strategic initiatives that span multiple business units, products, or technology platforms with demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority.
• Forward-thinking; anticipates technology and market trends in the automotive industry with ability to translate trends into actionable product strategies.
• Working knowledge of SAFe Agile Methodology and modern product operating models; experience with AI-native SDLC practices preferred.
• Working experience in full product lifecycle methodologies including discovery, delivery, adoption, and optimization across distributed teams.
• Working experience in creating, prioritizing and recommending epics and features across multiple release trains with ability to manage complex interdependencies.
• Working experience in conducting competitive research and analysis at the enterprise level, synthesizing insights into strategic recommendations.
• Working experience identifying and tracking KPIs and other analytics to measure product value, adoption, and business impact across multiple initiatives.
• Proven success working in highly collaborative, cross-functional team environments spanning multiple business units, geographies, and organizational boundaries.

Nice To Haves

• Automotive retail experience is preferred, with and an understanding of dealer operations, workflows, and pain points related to OEM incentives.
• Serves as a recognized expert and thought leader in primary discipline or technical area with enterprise-wide impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic cross-retail product initiatives spanning Cox Automotive's retail ecosystem, with primary focus on a high-impact OEM incentives modernization program.
• Drive alignment across multiple release trains and delivery streams, managing capabilities that deliver mutual stakeholder value and seamless experiences across Cox Automotive's retail brands and products.
• Collaborate with Business and Operations leaders, Engineering, Architecture, and Solution Delivery to ensure delivery of industry-leading capabilities that result in excellent customer experiences across the retail ecosystem.
• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Incentives modernization, addressing business continuity risks and known challenges that will result in protecting core business, reducing churn and providing competitive differentiation.
• Define approaches for an enterprise OEM Incentives capability development that will result in significant impact on organizational success across the retail ecosystem.
• Partner and collaborate with business, operations and product leaders across Cox Automotive retail brands to ensure successful development, delivery, and adoption of enterprise capabilities that deliver on the expectations of a connected retail platform.
• Contribute to defining best practices for AI-native product development, cross-functional collaboration models, and modern product operating models.
• Monitor industry trends and competitive landscape for product, technical, and process changes, translating insights into strategic recommendations and investment priorities for Cox Automotive's retail ecosystem.
• Create metrics-based approaches to measure adoption, business impact, and ROI for identified enterprise initiatives.
• Actively develop talent within the product organization and create bench strength across enterprise product teams including succession planning for critical roles.
• Foster effective business relationships with all internal and external partners, vendors, and stakeholders across Cox Automotive's retail ecosystem and broader enterprise.
• Contribute to creation of overarching guidance for sales, marketing, and go-to-market strategy development across enterprise initiatives, ensuring alignment with business unit strategies.

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.
• 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director