Senior Product Manager

Cox Automotive Inc. · Austin, TX · 2 wk ago

On-siteMarketing$112k–$186k/yrFull-time

About the role

Cox Automotive's Inventory Management Core (IMC) team builds the go-to-market products at the heart of vAuto - Provision and ProfitTime - that dealers rely on to manage, price, and merchandise their used vehicle inventory. These are the flagship inventory management solutions in the vAuto portfolio, and the decisions you make directly shape how thousands of dealers run their business every day.

Responsibilities

Lead discovery for your product area across Provision and ProfitTime, identifying and validating problems through dealer partners, performance managers, Sales, Support, and internal stakeholders.
Define personas, map pricing and merchandising workflows, build hypotheses, and test them using data, customer evidence, and competitive context to build a defensible point of view on what to build - and defend it with specifics.
Define and maintain a forward-looking product roadmap in partnership with product leadership, owning Epics and Features end-to-end, including PI Planning input and backlog prioritization.
Author Discovery Specs and co-author Delivery Specs with Engineering and Design, ensuring measurable acceptance criteria and clear scope boundaries.
Look beyond single-product features to how Provision and ProfitTime connect to the broader Cox Automotive ecosystem and to each other, identifying opportunities to remove friction across the dealer's appraisal-to-pricing-to-merchandising lifecycle and to deliver differentiated capabilities that deepen dealer value.
Use Claude Desktop, Copilot, and other AI tools daily for discovery synthesis, spec drafting, prototype generation, and context management, writing prompts as a core skill and building or adapting custom skills for product workflows.
Anchor recommendations in data from sources like Amplitude, Tableau, and Snowflake, understanding what the data represents and using it to inform your point of view.
Maintain a product context repository as the durable record of your value stream - outside of Rally.
Ship is not success; adoption is. Own a time horizon that extends beyond deployment, defining what complete adoption looks like, building rollout plans with performance managers and support teams, and coordinating with Sales, Marketing, and training on launch readiness.
Track outcomes against measurable criteria, serving as a senior liaison across product, engineering, operations, and business leadership, representing customer and dealer priorities to influence product and technology decisions, and surfacing status, risks, and wins without being asked - lead with the headline, bring a recommended path when something is off track.

Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years of experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 12 years of experience in a related field with no degree.
5+ years in software product management.
Demonstrated end-to-end discovery ownership: problem identification through validated solution direction.
Working proficiency with AI tools (Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent); prompt writing is a practiced skill.
Familiarity with GitHub Enterprise as a product artifact workspace.
Comfort with Amplitude, Snowflake, or equivalent for evidence-based prioritization.
Strong written and verbal communication; able to influence cross-functional teams.
Experience in a CAFe, AIT, or scaled agile delivery environment preferred.
Experience in automotive retail, dealer software, or adjacent B2B SaaS preferred but not required.
Candidates local to Austin, TX or willing to relocate to Austin, TX will be considered for this role.
We are unable to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Drug Testing: To be employed in this role, you'll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

Pay

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $111,600.00 - $186,000.00. 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.

Schedule

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.

Benefits

EEO, including disability/vets

USD 111,600.00 - 186,000.00 per year

Compensation: Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $111,600.00 - $186,000.00. 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.