Lead Product Manager

Cox Automotive is currently looking for a Lead Product Manager to join our dynamic Product Management team in the Inventory Management Group.
Your Role
The Lead Product Manager is responsible for developing, managing and optimizing one or more large and/or complex Product lines. This role will define and manage the product roadmap for a newly formed space and lead the discovery efforts to ensure roadmap priorities are aligned to deliver strategic, commercial and customer value.
To be successful in this role, the candidate must have a combination of knowledge and skills in product management, product marketing, operational execution, stakeholder engagement and communications. They must also be a strong people influencer and driver for a shared future vision.
Areas of Focus

• Product Strategy and Discovery: Lead the discovery process to formulate an in-depth understanding of problems by customer segment and personas with an understanding of the market and competitive landscape. Collaborate with business leaders to ensure product strategy and discovery efforts align to business objectives. Partner with cross-functional groups, stakeholders and clients to inform discovery efforts.
• Product Roadmap: Synthesize discovery into a transparent, outcome-oriented roadmap that sequences near-term wins and longer-horizon strategies; maintain the roadmap and ensure transparency in communication of deliverables with internal stakeholders and clients.
• Planning and Execution: Translate strategy into business outcomes, milestones, and epics; keep a healthy backlog that continuously delivers measurable value. Collaborate with Product Management and UX colleagues to ensure alignment across the product portfolio.
• Agile Development: Understand how to effectively apply agile methodologies in a complex, enterprise environment. Build effective relationships with onshore and offshore teams, including contractors, across product, UX, engineering, architecture and solution discovery. Ensure teams understand the product vision and how to execute in a way that incrementally delivers value towards that vision.
• Go-To-Market Planning: Apply commercialization mindset to inform innovation and product development activities in collaboration with business, operations, and marketing teams. Engage with implementation, training and technical support partners to ensure that product solutions balance operational scalability with cost and speed to market.
• Client Engagement: Engage with clients and client-proxies (e.g., sales, marketing, operations, performance management) throughout the discovery process to gather feedback and input on product ideas.
• Product Success: Assess product performance against KPIs and provide insights to improve product performance and inform future roadmap priorities.

What We Look For

• A bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 6 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years of experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 10 years of experience.
• 7+ years of experience product management/development with a record of shipping complex, enterprise products.
• Ability to apply critical thinking skills to solve challenging problems for complex enterprise products.
• Can precisely articulate customer problems and solution value and effectively influence cross functional teams; not afraid to ask hard questions and engage in difficult conversations to achieve the best outcome.
• Strong communicator who can articulate customer problems, solution value, and trade-offs; comfortable with hard conversations.
• Fluency in agile methods and tooling; proven cross-functional leadership with UX, engineering, and architecture.
• Purpose-driven with the ability to motivate and excite others; strive for continuous improvement with bias towards action.
• Experience with Product planning/roadmap and project management tools.
• Excellent people skills and developing relationships with team members and customers.