Intro
The DealerOps team at Cox Automotive is leading the modernization of the dealer management system experience — reimagining how dealerships run their financial operations on a cloud-native platform built for the way dealers work today. This is foundational platform work, and the accounting domain sits at the center of it.
As a Senior Product Manager for DMS Accounting, you will drive discovery, delivery, and continuous improvement across core accounting workflows — including GL management, deal posting, cash receipts, and period close — that dealership controllers and accounting teams rely on every day. You'll bring together dealer feedback, engineering collaboration, and data-informed judgment to ship product that meaningfully improves how dealerships operate their back office, while contributing to a broader modernization effort that is redefining the DMS category at Cox.
What You'll Do
- Own a defined set of DMS Accounting workflows end-to-end, from discovery through delivery, ensuring features are well-scoped, prioritized, and shipped with quality.
- Conduct dealer research and site visits on a recurring cadence, building relationships with accounting staff and controllers to surface friction, validate assumptions, and translate insights into product decisions.
- Create and maintain well-structured backlogs across Epic, Feature, and Story altitudes, partnering with engineering to refine scope, resolve dependencies, and maintain delivery momentum.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners in Engineering, Architecture, UX, and Go-to-Market to ensure product releases are well-executed and dealer-ready.
- Use product metrics, usage data, and qualitative feedback to evaluate in-market performance and make evidence-based recommendations for iteration and investment.
- Contribute to investment cases and roadmap inputs that connect accounting workflow improvements to measurable dealer and business outcomes.
- Develop a working knowledge of the competitive DMS landscape and evolving dealer expectations in accounting operations, keeping the team informed and the product strategy grounded.
Who You Are
Minimum
Cox Automotive uses a capabilities framework to define how our product practitioners operate. Candidates for this role are expected to demonstrate working proficiency across its six practice areas.
- For Market & Client Research, you participate in dealer site visits and interviews, synthesize research findings into structured discovery artifacts, and can identify and articulate problems and opportunities within an established product domain.
- For Product Strategy, you contribute to product vision and roadmap development with guidance from product leadership, and can support solution discovery and prioritization decisions with data and customer input.
- For Product Development, you create and maintain product backlogs at the Epic, Feature, and Story level with clear scope and acceptance criteria, facilitate refinement sessions, and deliver complete, high-quality release notes and launch inputs.
- For In-Market Product Performance Management, you track and interpret product metrics to inform decisions and can contribute to product lifecycle assessments with support from senior team members.
- For Professional Essentials, you communicate clearly across engineering, design, and business stakeholders, adapt your communication style to your audience, and take accountability for your product area's outcomes.
- For Technology Savvy, you engage productively in technical conversations with engineering partners, understand basic architectural constraints, and can represent user and business needs in a technical context.
Additionally, you have 3 or more years of product management experience owning features or workflows within a B2B or enterprise software product, and experience working in Agile or SAFe delivery environments using tools such as Rally or Jira.
Preferred
Domain & Industry Experience
- Familiarity with dealership operations, automotive retail workflows, or DMS software (CDK, Reynolds & Reynolds, Tekion, or equivalent).
- Working knowledge of accounting concepts such as general ledger structure, accounts payable and receivable, deal posting, or period close processes — either through product work or prior practitioner experience.
- Experience contributing to a platform migration or modernization effort involving legacy system replacement.
Technical & Integration Fluency
- Exposure to AP automation platforms such as Yooz, Stampli, or Tipalti, or familiarity with payroll or financial system integration patterns.
- Comfort working within a scaled product organization with shared platform dependencies and cross-team coordination needs.
AI Capability
- Demonstrated familiarity with Context Engineering — the ability to structure inputs and prompts that produce reliable, useful AI outputs as part of day-to-day product and discovery work.
- Demonstrated familiarity with AI-Native Product Building — the ability to identify where AI can meaningfully improve a product workflow and contribute to defining what responsible, high-value AI integration looks like in practice.
What's In It For You
Here's a sneak peek of the benefits at your disposal as a Cox employee:
- A competitive salary and top-notch bonus/incentive plans.
- Exceptional work-life balance, flexible time-off policies and accommodating work schedules.
- Comprehensive healthcare, with multiple options for individuals and families.
- Generous 401(k) retirement plans with up to 8% company match.
- Mental health support, including counseling and access to virtual wellness resources such as CALM.
- Access to Care.com, with up to 10 days of subsidized care for children, seniors and pets.
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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
