Senior Product Manager - Connected Experience Platform
About The Position
Cox Automotive is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Connected Experience Platform (CXP) product team. This team provides shared services products that form an integrated and consistent foundation for all Cox Automotive retail solutions, including brands like AutoTrader, Dealer.com, Dealertrack, HomeNet, Kelley Blue Book, vAuto, VinSolutions, and Xtime. The CXP team serves as a framework for all Cox's Retail business units and brands, offering enterprise-wide exposure. The role involves interfacing with leaders from various business units, not being siloed into one application or brand. The team builds best-of-breed services essential for all Cox Auto products, reducing duplicative development and enabling customers to use Cox Auto products as a coherent suite. The Senior Product Manager will be instrumental in leveraging the company's industry footprint.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related discipline and 4 years' product manager/product owner experience in a software development organization, or a related field.
- Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) required.
- Working competency with Agile tracking tools like Rally or Jira.
- Strong oral, written, and presentation communication skills required.
- Demonstrated usage of data to inform product management decisions and prioritization.
- Ability to work under pressure with time constraints.
Nice To Haves
- An advanced degree in a quantitative field
- Working knowledge of SaaS web technologies and modern, cloud-based software architectures and components
- Experience with single sign-on (SSO), identity & access management (IDM, IAM), authentication and authorization
- Experience with application programming interfaces (APIs)
- Experience partnering with design teams and guiding UX
- SAFe experience and/or Agile certifications (e.g., CSM, CSPO)
- Pragmatic Marketing certifications
- Experience with standards compliance requirements, such as security, accessibility, and/or mobile responsive design
- Automotive industry experience
Responsibilities
- Define product vision and objective measures of success, working with the Director of Product Management.
- Oversee and approve product designs, enhancements, and quality in close collaboration with Architects and Software Engineering.
- Track market trends and competitive offerings.
- Interact directly with customers and stakeholders to drive product direction and ensure capabilities meet market needs and customer goals.
- Collaborate with multiple Agile product development/software engineering teams responsible for developing and launching platform applications and components.
- Utilize AI to create Epics and discovery specs for the full product lifecycle, from research and design through development and launch.
- Build a collectively understood and prioritized product roadmap and backlog at the epic and feature level, working closely with internal and external customers, stakeholders, and other Product Managers.
- Align backlogs and roadmaps across teams, departments, business units, and release trains by collaborating with other Product Managers.
- Triage and prioritize customer-reported bugs and customer-requested features and enhancements.
- Act as a subject matter expert on assigned products, services, and capabilities, as well as in general areas of authentication security and permissions controls.
- Ensure products and services are secure, performant, and highly available by collaborating with Architects and Software Engineering.
- Ensure appropriate monitoring, alerting, incident management, and problem resolution for products and services by collaborating with Operations.
- Participate in product team iteration planning, release planning, and coordination of dependencies.
- Coordinate go-to-market activities with Sales, Marketing, Legal, Operations, Support, and other departments as needed.
- Lead and participate in various Agile ceremonies, including sprint reviews, stakeholder meetings, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
Benefits
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
