Product Manager II

United States, Texas, Austin.

As a Product Manager for Dealer Group Management within vAuto – a Cox Automotive company – you will be responsible for defining, prioritizing, and evolving the capabilities that help dealer groups operate more effectively across Provision, Profit Time GPS, and Conquest. Your focus is the group manager's world: how they set pricing strategies across stores, configure shared settings, monitor group‑level performance, and act on insights across their entire network.

In this role, you will serve as the product manager for one of vAuto's AI Transformed Teams (AITs) – a small, empowered product team working in an AI‑first, spec‑driven development model. On an AIT, the PM’s role evolves: you write clearer, more detailed product specs that enable your team to build with greater speed and confidence using AI‑assisted development. Discovery, specification, and delivery are tighter and more iterative than in traditional models.

You will work closely with the Product Director over Dealer Group Management to maintain a healthy, well‑reasoned product roadmap and help evolve the group management strategy. You translate business strategy and dealer insights into actionable epics and features, and you stay close to delivery – partnering with engineering, UX, and architecture to ship product that makes a real difference for group managers every day.

We want someone who forms opinions fast and shares them openly – someone who can make a case, defend a point of view, and is equally comfortable being wrong and updating their thinking. You thrive in a team environment, know how to bring diverse stakeholders toward a shared direction, and you take initiative without waiting to be told what to look into next.

• Support the Product Director in maintaining and evolving the dealer group management roadmap across Provision, Profit Time GPS, and Conquest, including adjacent capabilities such as DTN (Dealer Trade Network), automated pricing, and enterprise dashboards and reporting.
• Translate organizational objectives and dealer group needs into a clear, prioritized backlog of epics and features with well‑defined outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to improve the group manager’s experience – helping them work smarter, move faster, and make better decisions across their stores.
• Stay current on competitive dynamics, industry trends, and the evolving operational needs of dealer groups to proactively inform product strategy.

• Build deep fluency in dealer group management workflows – how group managers use vAuto tools to configure strategy, monitor performance, standardize settings, and manage inventory across multiple stores.
• Conduct continuous discovery with dealers, dealer group managers, and internal partners including Business Development, Account Performance Managers, Customer Support, Sales, and Implementation teams.
• Synthesize feedback across multiple channels into coherent problem statements and well‑scoped product opportunities.
• Serve as the internal subject matter expert on dealer group management use cases, workflows, and pain points across vAuto’s product suite.

• Serve as product manager for a dedicated AI Transformed Team (AIT), working within vAuto’s AI‑first, spec‑driven development model where tight, well‑written specifications enable faster, higher‑quality engineering execution.
• Write clear, detailed epics and features that give your team everything they need to build confidently – including context, acceptance criteria, edge cases, and measurable outcomes.
• Own the product backlog at the epic and feature level in close partnership with the Product Director, maintaining clarity on priorities, scope, and delivery accountability.
• Partner with engineering, UX, and architecture to deliver high‑quality features and enhancements that improve dealer group management workflows.

• Communicate product plans, priorities, and release updates clearly and consistently to internal partners across sales, implementation, support, and leadership.
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