Product Strategy Director

Pay Range

$per hour (Paid Weekly)

Overview

Cox Automotive is searching for a Product Strategy Director.

Cox Automotive is a leading provider of automotive products and services, offering a wide range of solutions to dealers, manufacturers, and consumers. With a focus on innovation and customer service, Cox Automotive helps clients navigate the ever-changing automotive industry landscape. From digital marketing and software solutions to vehicle remarketing and logistics, Cox Automotive is dedicated to driving the future of the automotive industry.

This is a 12-month W2 contract assignment with the opportunity for contract extension or to transition to a permanent, full-time role based on performance and business needs.

Shift/Hours

• This is a hybrid role based in Atlanta, GA; 3 days per week onsite

• Monday - Friday; 40 hours per week

Responsibilities

• Identify new opportunities and craft long-term strategic plans for products and capabilities

• Understand clients’ top needs and position Cox Automotive to drive value in the marketplace

• Interact directly with customers, external business partners, and cross-functional internal teams to shape strategic direction

• Collaborate closely with executive leaders, business stakeholders, product teams, and corporate strategy teams to ensure alignment and shared methodologies in product design and development

• Support the development of product strategies across Cox Automotive

• Collaborate with executive leaders, cross-functional partners, and business stakeholders to craft and refine product strategies that drive company and client growth

• Engage with business leaders to analyze and uphold core revenue streams through alignment with foundational business strategies

• Conduct market and opportunity analysis to identify new growth avenues and assess potential for new product offerings and lines of business

• Perform a full range of analysis to ensure proposed opportunities align with strategy and enhance long‑term success from multiple perspectives (technology, products, services)

• Advise management on identification, evaluation, and execution of potential acquisitions, partnerships, alliances, joint ventures, and/or internal start‑up opportunities

• Direct various work streams to understand how initiatives may impact and benefit the business

• Align strategies across Cox Automotive to contribute to shared end‑state and market‑oriented outcomes

• Coach product leaders (AVPs, Directors, Sr Managers) to ensure their product lines are aligned to a strategic north star

• Develop and sustain deep subject matter expertise in the evolving landscape of auto retailing, wholesaling, ownership, and fleet maintenance

• Identify opportunities to consolidate or coordinate capabilities that cross solution sets/delivery streams and build

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 10 years’ experience in a related field, or a master's degree and 8 years’ experience, or a Ph.D. and 5 years’ experience, or 14 years’ experience in a related field

• Experience in automotive, strategy consulting, or technology consulting

• Strong strategic formation background with experience developing long‑term strategies or initiatives

• Proven ability to transform ideas into actionable plans and recognized for innovative thinking

• Experience in market analysis, data‑driven decision‑making, and performance metrics

• Proficiency in data analysis tools and methodologies, including advanced frameworks such as root cause analysis

• Ability to adapt strategy based on real‑time feedback and changing conditions

• Ability to identify and allocate adequate resources—financial, human, and technological—for execution

• Ability to develop comprehensive product strategies outlining capability, target customers, and positioning

• Proven ability to facilitate workshops with cross‑functional teams (R&D, marketing, and other business leaders)

• Proven ability to lead using influence within highly complex, matrixed teams

• Proven ability to deliver high‑impact presentations to C‑suite executives, using data visualizations to convey complex information

• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

• Advanced…