Lead Product Manager

Cox Automotive • Austin, TX

154d • $119,700 - $199,500

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 6 years of experience in a related field.
• 7+ years of experience product management/development with a record of shipping complex, enterprise products.
• Ability to apply critical thinking skills to solve challenging problems for complex enterprise products.
• Can precisely articulate customer problems and solution value and effectively influence cross functional teams.
• Strong communicator who can articulate customer problems, solution value, and trade-offs.
• Fluency in agile methods and tooling; proven cross-functional leadership with UX, engineering, and architecture.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Assess product performance against KPIs and provide insights to improve product performance and inform future roadmap priorities.

Benefits

• Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties.
• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• 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.
• Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision).
• Retirement planning (401(k)).
• Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree