Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Inventory Services

Company Cox Automotive – USA

Individual Contributor, Management Level.

Hybrid – Ability to work remotely part of the week. Travel: 5% of the time.

Work Shift:

Day.

Base salary range: $111,600 - $186,000. Eligible for an incentive program.

Cox Automotive's Enterprise Inventory Services (EIS) team builds and operates the platforms and tools that power vehicle inventory across our retail ecosystem. The EIS product enables the inventory data infrastructure, dealer‑facing inventory management solutions, and operational tooling that connects them. This role is an enterprise product management position where you own capabilities that dealers, internal teams, and other Cox Automotive products depend on.

You will own a portfolio of inventory capabilities from problem discovery through adoption, define what to build and why, drive alignment across product, engineering, architecture, and UX, and ensure that what ships gets adopted by the people and systems that depend on it.

Problem Discovery and Product Strategy – Lead discovery for your product area, identifying and validating problems through direct engagement with internal customers (operations, support, business stakeholders) and external clients (dealers, integration partners). Define personas, map workflows, build hypotheses, and test them using data, customer evidence, and competitive context to form a view on what to build next and defend that view with specifics.

Spec‑Driven Development – Write product discovery specs that clearly define the who, why, and what. Specs include measurable acceptance criteria, defined scope boundaries, and enough context for humans or machines to evaluate feasibility and propose solutions.

Backlog Health and Pipeline Management – Maintain a forward‑looking pipeline of meaningful work for engineering teams. Create sufficient runway to maintain momentum without over committing to solutions that may shift.

Cross‑Functional Alignment – Navigate a matrixed environment where leaders have competing priorities. Build consensus by leading with evidence and framing tradeoffs clearly. Communicate headlines first, provide context second, and make it easy for leaders to make decisions.

Adoption and Go‑to‑Market for Platform Capabilities – Shipping is not success; adoption is. Define what complete adoption looks like, build rollout plans with implementation partners and operations, and track progress against measurable criteria.

Stakeholder Communication and Transparency – Surface status, risks, and wins proactively. Keep managers and cross‑functional partners informed at the right cadence with the right level of detail, and bring problems with recommended paths forward, not just observations.

• Structured Discovery Skills – Repeatable playbook for moving from ambiguity to conviction, with clear methods and stopping points.
• Strategic Prioritization with Tradeoffs – Articulate selections, priorities, and outcomes, balancing long‑term enterprise needs with short‑term incremental value.
• Data‑Driven Decision Making – Anchor recommendations in evidence, name assumptions, and identify what is needed to confirm.
• AI Fluency – Use AI tools in discovery, analysis, spec writing, or prototyping; have a point of view on AI’s impact on product management.
• Ownership and Accountability – Own outcomes, meet deadlines, and follow through without being chased.
• Communication Discipline – Lead with the headline, be concise, and tailor messages to technical depth, business impact, or user outcomes.

• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years’ experience in a related field, or a master’s degree and 4 years’ experience, or a Ph.D. and up to 2 years, or 10 years’ experience in a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software product management.
• Demonstrated experience owning product discovery end‑to‑end, from problem identification through validated solution direction.
• Critical thinking skills to solve challenging problems for complex enterprise products and the ability to ask hard questions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate…