Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager – Inventory Management Core (IMC)

Company:
Cox Automotive – Austin, TX (remote work possible). Hybrid or fully remote arrangements available; travel required as needed.

Cox Automotive’s Inventory Management Core (IMC) team builds the go-to-market products at the heart of vAuto – Provision and Profit Time – that dealers use to manage, price, and merchandise their used vehicle inventory. The Senior Product Manager will own a portfolio of capabilities across Provision and Profit Time, driving discovery, strategy, and adoption from problem identification through delivery and market usage.

• Discovery and Product Strategy: Lead discovery across Provision and Profit Time, identify and validate problems with dealer partners, internal stakeholders, and data sources; define personas, map pricing and merchandising workflows, build hypotheses, and test them.
• Roadmap and Backlog Management: Define and maintain a forward-looking product roadmap, own Epics and Features end-to-end, provide input for PI Planning, and prioritize the backlog to supply the AIT teams with clear, sequenced work.
• Spec‑Driven Development: Author Discovery Specs and co-author Delivery Specs with Engineering and Design, ensuring measurable acceptance criteria and clear scope boundaries.
• Connected Workflows & Innovation: Identify opportunities to integrate Provision and Profit Time with the broader Cox Automotive ecosystem, streamline dealer workflows across appraisal, pricing, and merchandising, and deliver differentiated value.
• AI‑Fluent Product Work: Use Claude Desktop, Copilot, and other AI tools for discovery synthesis, spec drafting, prototyping, and context management; write prompts, build or adapt custom AI skills, and design AI‑powered dealer capabilities.
• Data‑Driven Decisions: Anchor recommendations in data from Amplitude, Tableau, Snowflake; monitor post-launch performance, identify optimization opportunities, and drive continuous improvement against KPIs.
• Adoption & Go‑to‑Market: Own the post‑deployment horizon, define full adoption, build rollout plans with support and training teams, and coordinate with Sales and Marketing to create launch readiness.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a senior liaison across product, engineering, operations, and leadership, surface status, risks, and wins, and provide recommended paths for off‑track issues.

• Experience:
  
  4+ years in software product management, 5+ years in end‑to‑end discovery ownership, and a proven track record in scaled agile environments (CAFe, AIT, or similar).
• AI Fluency:
  Working proficiency with AI tools such as Claude Desktop or Git Hub Copilot and strong prompt‑writing skills.
• Data Literacy:
  Comfortable pulling and interpreting data from Amplitude, Tableau, Snowflake, or equivalent to inform prioritization.
• Technical Familiarity:
  Experience with Git Hub Enterprise as a product artifact workspace.
• Stakeholder Influence:
  Ability to influence senior leadership, navigate competing priorities, and lead data‑driven trade‑off discussions.
• Communication Discipline:
  Clear and concise in meetings and writing, tailoring messages to technical or business audiences.
• Ownership & Bias for Action:
  Own the outcomes, not activities, and drive progress without waiting for direction.
• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline with 4 years of experience, or equivalent combinations such as a master’s degree with 2 years of experience, a Ph.D. with 1 year of experience, or 12 years of experience with no degree.
• Location:
  
  Candidates local to Austin, TX or willing to relocate will be considered. Visa sponsorship is not available.
• Background:
  Drug testing required; a drug‑free workplace policy applies.

Base salary range $111,600 – $186,000, commensurate with experience, location, and qualification; additional incentive compensation may be available.

Paid vacation (unlimited within policy constraints), 7 paid holidays, up to 160 paid wellness hours annually, additional paid time off for bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteer, military, and parental leave. Health care (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) retirement plan, and other standard corporate benefits. For full details visit the company benefits page.

Company Cox Automotive is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are provided when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless undue hardship arises.