Every year, Manheim moves millions of vehicles across its auction network — and the operational infrastructure powering that movement is ready for transformation. As a Senior Product Manager on the Lot Operations Modernization team, you won't just manage a backlog. You'll help define what the future of lot operations looks like — identifying the highest-value problems, assessing emerging technologies, and building products that directly reduce cost, eliminate waste, and improve the experience of the people doing the work every day.
What you'll do
Own your problem space. You'll be assigned a set of interconnected operational challenges within lot operations — ranging from labor visibility and vehicle move efficiency to planning deficiencies and lack of operational standards across the auction network. You'll go deep: spending time at Manheim auction sites, building relationships with the crew leaders and operators who live these problems daily, and translating what you learn into a clear, prioritized product direction.
Lead discovery efforts to understand root causes, validate assumptions, and assess the ROI of potential solutions — identifying where product investment will create the greatest measurable impact
Define and maintain a product roadmap that sequences near-term wins alongside longer-term strategic bets — and communicate it clearly to stakeholders and leadership
Translate strategy into epics, features, and well-groomed backlogs that keep engineering teams building toward outcomes, not just outputs
Partner closely with Manheim operations and field leaders, UX designers, data and analytics teams, and engineering to ensure solutions are grounded in operational reality and technically sound
Establish and track success metrics that connect product delivery to real operational and financial outcomes
Use AI to accelerate discovery, experimentation, development, and recommend improvements
Adopt AI tooling and employ a mindset and focus on how they should think about and approach their work in the PDLC
Contribute to a discovery culture that is problem-first and hypothesis-driven, including sharing readouts and insights with leadership and cross-functional partners
Collaborate with fellow PMs on the release train to maintain alignment, share learnings, and avoid duplication across problem areas
Who you are
You're a Senior Product Manager who is energized by messy, complex operational problems — not intimidated by them. You know how to get out of the building, ask the right questions, and bring a critical eye to what you learn — evaluating whether new information maps to the problems you're tasked to solve, and whether those problems are worth solving. You're comfortable with ambiguity, decisive when it counts, and you bring a bias toward action.
Bachelor’s degree and 4 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 2 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years’ experience in a related field
Demonstrated ability to drive complex products or features from discovery through delivery in an agile environment
Strong analytical skills — able to evaluate customer, market, and operational data to identify patterns, prioritize problems, and recommend strategies
Experience partnering with engineering, UX, and data teams to translate vision into executable backlogs and measurable outcomes
Skilled at building relationships across functions and levels — from field operators to senior business stakeholders
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to craft clear written materials and present ideas effectively to stakeholders at all levels.
Familiarity with SAFe Agile methodology
High integrity; focused on execution, continuous improvement, and doing what's right for the customer and the business
Hybrid role with expectation to be in the office at least two days per week
Preferred background
We're not prescriptive about where you've been — we care about what you can do. That said, candidates with experience in any of the following areas may find this role a natural fit:
Automotive or Wholesale
Operations or Logistics
Supply Chain Technology
Field Service or last-mile
Familiarity with analytics and product tools such as; Pendo, Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake
Exposure to AI‑related initiatives or tools
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.
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $101,500.00 - $169,100.00. 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.
EOE, including disability/vets
