Sr Product Manager
About The Position
As a Senior Product Manager for the Recon Solutions and Services release train at Cox Automotive, you will own a significant area of the One Recon platform, which consolidates legacy reconditioning tools and manual processes into a unified technology hub for Manheim auction sites and their reconditioning operations. You will set direction for your product area within the One Recon vision and translate organizational objectives and operational insight into a prioritized roadmap. The role leads discovery and definition for complex epics and features, aligns engineering, UX, architecture, and operations partners, and represents the product area in cross-functional forums. You will also share product practices and informally support other product managers. The role spans product strategy, discovery, stakeholder engagement, delivery, go-to-market readiness, and performance measurement. It calls for platform thinking, a working understanding of APIs and integrations, and the ability to balance strategic direction with hands-on delivery accountability. The objective is to deliver measurable operational improvements and support Cox Automotive's auction reconditioning services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of experience in a related field; alternatively, a master’s degree and 2 years of related experience, a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of related experience, or 16 years of related experience.
- Strong platform thinking.
- Working understanding of APIs and integrations.
- Ability to balance strategic clarity with hands-on delivery accountability.
Responsibilities
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for an assigned One Recon platform area, aligned with the platform vision and Manheim's operational priorities.
- Translate platform direction into area-level objectives and sequence epics and features to maximize business value and reduce dependencies.
- Participate in quarterly and annual planning, making the case for investment and addressing trade-offs against other priorities.
- Identify and champion opportunities to replace legacy reconditioning tools and eliminate manual processes.
- Lead discovery for complex or high-impact problems, synthesizing operator interviews, usage data, and operational trends into problem statements and opportunity assessments.
- Build and maintain relationships with auction operators, operations partners, and internal stakeholders, balancing site needs with enterprise-wide value.
- Serve as the subject matter expert on reconditioning workflows, systems, and integrations in the assigned area, and advise other teams on how they interact with it.
- Define and prioritize epics and features, including acceptance criteria, scope boundaries, and dependencies.
- Partner with engineering, UX, and architecture to shape solution designs, resolve trade-offs, and keep delivery on track against committed outcomes.
- Own backlog health and ensure requirements are clear and ready for delivery teams.
- Escalate blockers and cross-team conflicts to product leadership with a recommended path forward.
- Represent the product area in release train planning, reviews, and stakeholder forums, communicating progress, risks, and decisions.
- Lead go-to-market readiness for releases, including release communications, operator enablement, and adoption-focused documentation.
- Build alignment across teams and workstreams that touch the product area.
- Share product management practices, frameworks, and lessons learned with other PMs, and provide informal coaching on discovery, prioritization, and stakeholder management.
- Support other PMs as a sounding board for complex stakeholder dynamics and ambiguous problem spaces.
- Contribute to team norms and ways of working that improve consistency and output quality.
- Define and monitor KPIs and adoption metrics, using data to validate outcomes and guide iteration.
- Identify workflow automation, process optimization, and platform consolidation opportunities.
- Lead resolution of complex product issues and maintain feedback loops for continuous platform improvement.
Benefits
- Flexible paid vacation.
- Seven paid holidays.
- Up to 160 hours of paid wellness time annually.
- Bereavement leave.
- Time off to vote.
- Jury duty leave.
- Volunteer time off.
- Military leave.
- Parental leave.
- Health care insurance, which may include medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) retirement planning.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
