Product Operations Senior Lead Product Manager

Position Responsibilities

• Maturing Product Management: Drive processes that improve product management maturity, skills, and consistency across Cox Automotive.
• AI-First Product Management: Lead the development and adoption of AI-first approaches to product management across CAPTG. Integrate AI tools (e.g., Claude, Pendo AI) into product workflows including discovery, research synthesis, specification writing, and launch readiness. Develop reusable playbooks, skills, prompts, and agents. Serve as internal SME and evangelist for applied AI in product management.
• Enterprise Stewardship: Partner with Product Management, Product Readiness teams, and other teams internal to the Product COE and CAPTG to coordinate efforts and promote awareness for Product Operations initiatives. Catalyze behavioral change through knowledge sharing and compelling, thoughtfully curated resources that drive buy-in and adoption.

Required Qualifications

• Strong Ability And Desire To Lead the adoption of AI-first approaches to product management, with working knowledge of LLMs (Claude preferred), prompt engineering, and agentic workflows.
• Provide excellent service to internal clients / stakeholders, always seeking to add incremental value.
• Think critically and broadly about how tools, processes, and standards can be integrated to create compounding value.
• Teach others and illuminate best practices in a compelling way that drives buy-in and adoption.

Other Key Attributes

• Self-motivated, able to independently drive initiatives with minimal oversight.
• Thinking and operating broadly across diverse teams/stakeholders, macro/enterprise-level thinking.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable communicating at all levels including senior leadership.
• Hands-on experience applying AI tools to real product management workflows with measurable results.
• Direct involvement in driving continuous improvement and large operational change management initiatives.
• Strong ability to build key business relationships and contribute to the enterprise vision at Cox Automotive.
• Strong ability to assess capabilities, gaps, and build plans for addressing training needs.
• Working Knowledge Of AI in Product Management (hands-on, not theoretical).
• Change Management / ADKAR.
• Double Diamond framework.

Nice To Have

• Cloude, Pendo, Consulting experience, Spec Driven Development, Certification in Human Centered Design.

Compensation

USD 134,900.00 - 224,900.00 per year. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

EEO, including disability/vets.