Sr Product Manager

Cox Enterprises • Atlanta, GA

10d • 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 Senior Product Manager 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

• You're a Senior Product Manager who is energized by messy, complex operational problems — not intimidated by them. You know how to get out of the building, ask the right questions, and bring a critical eye to what you learn — evaluating whether new information maps to the problems you're tasked to solve, and whether those problems are worth solving. You're comfortable with ambiguity, decisive when it counts, and you bring a bias toward action.
• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 2 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years’ experience in a related field
• Demonstrated ability to drive complex products or features from discovery through delivery in an agile environment
• Strong analytical skills — able to evaluate customer, market, and operational data to identify patterns, prioritize problems, and recommend strategies
• Experience partnering with engineering, UX, and data teams to translate vision into executable backlogs and measurable outcomes
• Skilled at building relationships across functions and levels — from field operators to senior business stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to craft clear written materials and present ideas effectively to stakeholders at all levels.
• Familiarity with SAFe Agile methodology
• High integrity; focused on execution, continuous improvement, and doing what's right for the customer and the business
• Hybrid role with expectation to be in the office at least two days per week

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

• Own your problem space. You'll be assigned a set of interconnected operational challenges within lot operations — ranging from labor visibility and vehicle move efficiency to planning deficiencies and lack of operational standards across the auction network. You'll go deep: spending time at Manheim auction sites, building relationships with the crew leaders and operators who live these problems daily, and translating what you learn into a clear, prioritized product direction.
• Lead discovery efforts to understand root causes, validate assumptions, and assess the ROI of potential solutions — identifying where product investment will create the greatest measurable impact
• Define and maintain a product roadmap that sequences near-term wins alongside longer-term strategic bets — and communicate it clearly to stakeholders and leadership
• Translate strategy into epics, features, and well-groomed backlogs that keep engineering teams building toward outcomes, not just outputs
• Partner closely with Manheim operations and field leaders, UX designers, data and analytics teams, and engineering to ensure solutions are grounded in operational reality and technically sound
• Establish and track success metrics that connect product delivery to real operational and financial outcomes
• 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
• Contribute to a discovery culture that is problem-first and hypothesis-driven, including sharing readouts and insights with leadership and cross-functional partners
• Collaborate with fellow PMs on the release train to maintain alignment, share learnings, 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.
• Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and 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
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees