Lead Product Manager

Company
Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Lead Product Manager

Management Level

Manager - Non People Leader

Flexible Work Option


Can work remotely but need to live in the specified city, state, or region

Travel %

Yes, 15% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $133,800.00 - $223,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

Job Summary:

Discovers, develops, and evaluates new product ideas, enhancements to existing products, and strategic product extensions, translating insights into scalable, market-ready solutions for xtime. Compiles and evaluates market requirements, ensuring alignment between product capabilities and customer needs.

This role leads large, complex, and strategically important product areas, working closely with OEMs, dealers, and internal stakeholders to deliver capabilities that meet evolving requirements while ensuring existing products continue to perform, scale, and deliver value. The role embeds AI into the full product development lifecycle-accelerating discovery, prototyping, validation, and delivery-while ensuring products are measurable, usable, and delivering expected outcomes through reporting and analytics.

PRIMARY DUTIES/KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for developing, managing and optimizing one or more products.
• Identifies, quantifies and effectively communicates customer market opportunities.
• Creates and maintains product vision and roadmap, creates business plans to secure funding, and, develops go-to-market strategies and value proposition.
• Ensures feature alignment across products; manages feature creation and identifies business rules / impact.
• Engages with Solution Delivery Managers to ensure delivery team is aligned with features and feature acceptance criteria.
• Define and implement product solutions, contributing to product strategy, and managing the product backlog.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to provide updates, address concerns, and manage expectations throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborates with other Product Managers to ensure alignment across products; participates in planning and pre/post-planning events (Demos and Inspect / Adapt).
• Collaborates with Solution Delivery Managers, UX Designers and others to prototype, test and validate solutions.
• Supports testing and partners with revenue and business stakeholders to develop pricing strategies and assess impact on Return on Investment (ROI).
• Works with Solutions Delivery, Product Management and Marketing teams to communicate new products, and develop go-to-market strategy, plans, and training materials.
• Makes end-of-life recommendations for non-performant products.

Required Experience & Specialized Knowledge and skil ls

• Bachelor's degree and 6 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 18 years' experience in a related fieldSkilled in managing multiple priorities, requirements analysis, system and technology integration and technology savvy.
• Acts with integrity and skilled in building partnerships, driving innovation, focusing on execution and striving for excellence.
• Other duties as needed or required.

Drug Testing

To be employed in this role, you'll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

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.

About Us

Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells - or simply uses - cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. 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). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer - All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.

EOE, including disability/vets