Product Manager II

Cox Enterprises • Atlanta, GA

19d • $89,400 - $134,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Every year, Manheim moves millions of vehicles across its auction network — and the operational infrastructure powering that movement is ready for transformation. As a Product Manager II on the Lot Operations Modernization team, you won't just manage a backlog. You'll help define what the future of lot operations looks like — identifying the highest-value problems, assessing emerging technologies, and building products that directly reduce cost, eliminate waste, and improve the experience of the people doing the work every day.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and 2 years of experience; or a master's degree and up to 2 years of experience; or 6 years of experience in a related field with no degree
• Foundational skills in managing multiple priorities, requirements analysis, and technology integration
• Ability to leverage customer feedback, data, and user experience insights to identify product opportunities and enhancements
• Comfortable working cross-functionally — able to build relationships and coordinate effectively with engineering, UX, and operations partners
• Familiarity with SAFe Agile methodology
• High integrity; focused on execution, building partnerships, and striving for excellence in everything you ship
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship

Nice To Haves

• Automotive or Wholesale Operations or Logistics
• Supply Chain Technology
• Field service or last-mile
• Familiarity with analytics and product tools such as; Pendo, Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake
• Exposure to AI‑related initiatives or tools

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a high-impact problem space. You'll support product management efforts across a set of interconnected operational challenges — from labor visibility and vehicle move efficiency to planning gaps and the lack of consistent standards across the auction network.
• Build your product instincts in a real environment, working alongside experienced PMs, operators, and cross-functional partners every day.
• Participate in discovery efforts — conducting research, engaging with field users, and helping to evaluate whether problems are real, relevant, and worth solving within the context of the team's strategy
• Support the grooming and maintenance of well-defined backlogs — translating validated problems into clearly written features and user stories that engineering teams can act on
• Leverage customer feedback, operational data, and user experience insights to identify opportunities for product enhancements and surface them to the team
• Define and track KPIs for assigned product areas, monitoring results and flagging when outcomes are trending off course
• Partner with UX designers, data and analytics teams, and engineering to ensure solutions are well-specified, feasible, and grounded in real user needs
• Help develop business case documentation and product collateral in support of prioritization and stakeholder alignment
• Use AI to accelerate discovery, experimentation, development, and recommend improvements
• Adopt AI tooling and employ a mindset and focus on how they should think about and approach their work in the PDLC
• Share learnings openly — contributing to a discovery culture that values transparency, iteration, and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with PMs and cross-functional partners on the release train to stay aligned and avoid duplication across problem areas

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.
• 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: Mid Level