Job Summary:
As a Product Manager II within Inventory Management Enablement Services (IMES) release train, you will play a key role in supporting strategic platform modernization initiatives that improve the scalability, reliability, security, operational efficiency, and extensibility of the vAuto ecosystem.
This role requires strong technical acumen and the ability to work effectively within a platform engineering environment, including understanding concepts such as APIs, events, databases, integrations, cloud technologies, software delivery pipelines, and technical tradeoffs.
In this role, you will translate business strategy and stakeholder insights into actionable product plans, define and prioritize requirements at the epic and feature level, and maintain a well-groomed product backlog. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, operations, and business functions to ensure the successful delivery of solutions that align with organizational priorities and strategic objectives.
Your responsibilities will span product discovery, backlog management, stakeholder engagement, roadmap planning, and identifying opportunities for future enhancements based on customer needs, operational challenges, and business goals. Success in this role requires strong product ownership, excellent communication skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while driving alignment and execution across diverse stakeholders.
Primary Duties / Key Responsibilities:
- Provide Product Management support for assigned products, capabilities, and strategic initiatives.
- Represent business and customer requirements to scrum teams, partnering closely with engineering, architecture, and other stakeholders to deliver valuable product capabilities.
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture concepts including APIs, micro-services, event-driven systems, databases, and cloud technologies.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business requirements and stakeholder communications.
- Leverage standard techniques and tools to analyze and monitor product KPIs, user engagement, operational metrics, and business outcomes to ensure achievement of success measures.
- Identify opportunities for experimentation, continuous improvement, and product enhancement through analysis of customer feedback, business needs, and performance data.
- Support the resolution of product and process challenges, partnering with stakeholders to identify root causes, evaluate solutions, and drive implementation of improvements.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration across business, product, and technology teams to ensure alignment, transparency, and successful execution of strategic initiatives.
- Use AI to accelerate discovery, experimentation, development, and recommend improvements.
- Adopt AI tooling and employ a mindset and focus on how AI can enhance decision-making, collaboration, and delivery throughout the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC).
Required Experience & Specialized Knowledge and skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 2 years’ experience in a related field; or a different combination, such as a master's degree and up to 2 years’ experience; or 6 years’ experience in a related field with no degree.
- Foundational skills in managing multiple priorities, requirements analysis, system and technology integration and technology savvy.
- Acts with integrity and has foundational skills in building partnerships, driving innovation, focusing on execution and striving for excellence.
- Other duties as needed or required.
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 $98,300.00 - $147,500.00. 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.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
EOE, including disability/vets
