Director, Product Management

Cox Communications•Atlanta, GA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Product Management leads Product Management for the Auction Marketplace Release Train within the Wholesale Marketplace Delivery Stream (CAPTG I5). The release train builds digital experiences connecting buyers and sellers in Manheim’s wholesale marketplace, including Timed Sales, Simulcast, OVE, search, the Vehicle Detail Page, and DealShield Assurance. The role owns product strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for the Manheim Marketplace investment and leads the Auction Marketplace product team. The Director partners with engineering, architecture, product design, data and analytics, auction operations, and commercial teams to increase buyer engagement and transaction conversion and extend assurance coverage. The role also works with adjacent release trains to connect the marketplace with other Cox Automotive products, and applies AI to improve the team’s ways of working and how buyers and sellers find, price, and transact on vehicles. The position is hybrid, with the ability to work remotely part of the week, and requires 15% travel. It is a day-shift role. Compensation includes a base salary of $148,500 to $247,500, potentially varying by location and the candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. The position may also be eligible for incentive compensation. Employment requires passing a pre-employment drug test; the company does not currently test for marijuana before employment for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 10 years of experience in a related field; alternatively, a master’s degree and 8 years of experience, a Ph.D. and 5 years of experience, or 18 years of experience in a related field.
At least 5 years of experience in a management or lead role.
Skilled in analytical thinking, business acumen, project administration and management, requirements analysis, and technology.
Skilled in building partnerships, engaging others, guiding team success, leading change, and leading with vision.
Must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship; OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT, and visa sponsorship are not available.
Must clear a pre-employment drug test.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated proficiency at the Director level in the Product Creator Practices and Skills framework, including Team Leadership & Development.
Experience leading product teams through AI Transformation (AIT).
Proven ability to align diverse stakeholders and gain buy-in from leaders across organizational boundaries.
Ability to make sound decisions quickly with incomplete information and to say no to lower-value work.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop the Auction Marketplace product team; attract and retain product talent, shape team structure and capacity, build skills, set expectations, and foster accountability, empowerment, and ownership.
Own the Manheim Marketplace product strategy and roadmap, connect roadmap items to investment outcomes, and align product-area direction with release-train strategy.
Contribute to annual investment cases that support business outcomes and key measures.
Partner with business leaders to identify business and organizational requirements and assess current and anticipated support levels.
Lead the product lifecycle from discovery through launch, validating problems and solutions with customers and shaping work so increments deliver customer value before teams commit capacity.
Drive planning and prioritization with engineering and architecture leaders, coordinate dependencies across release-train investments, and balance new capabilities with reliability, security, and platform modernization.
Oversee product and go-to-market readiness, messaging, and change management with marketing, sales, client solutions, and auction operations.
Identify, prioritize, and deliver AI-enabled marketplace capabilities, including agent-ready data and API access, with clear measures of adoption and business impact.
Lead the team’s AI Transformation ways of working, model AI-native product development, and ensure specifications developed with engineering and design partners are actionable for engineers and AI agents.
Define and track release-train KPIs using customer-journey instrumentation, baselines, and experimentation, and drive actions to improve results.
Give leadership end-to-end visibility into areas of focus, issues, budget and costs, near- and longer-term priorities, and business impact.
Perform other duties as needed or required.

Benefits

Flexible paid vacation, to be used consistently with the employee’s duties, company needs, and obligations.
Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
Up to 160 hours of paid wellness time annually for the employee’s or family members’ wellness.
Bereavement leave.
Time off to vote.
Jury duty leave.
Volunteer time off.
Military leave.
Parental leave.
Benefits for eligible employees may include medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k); sick leave; parental leave; flexible vacation/wellness days; and PTO.