Sr Product Manager (Data Products)

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Sr Product Manager

Management Level

Individual Contributor

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $106,800.00 - $178,000.00. 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.

Job Description

The Senior Product Manager (Data Products) will be responsible for developing, managing and optimizing one or more data products, such as data sets and APIs. These data products are used by Data Analysts/Scientists/Product teams to produce data-driven insights that power products across the Cox Automotive landscape. The role includes but is not limited to contributing to and managing the product roadmap, overseeing the implementation and working in an agile environment with a cross-functional team to develop products that meet the needs of our consumers and clients. Recognized as an expert within the company and requires in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in Product Management along with other job disciplines within the organization to successfully manage the product. Manages small to medium-sized products.

Strategy/Discovery:                                                                                                          

• Identifies, quantifies, and effectively communicates customer market opportunities; analyzes competitive landscape and validates solutions for future products.

• Partners with customers to understand needs and execute on value-added work to increase richness and usability of our data products.

• Manages more complex aspects of existing products/product lines

Planning:

• Create and maintain product vision and roadmap. Illustrate market problems in a way that puts the problem in context. Provide relevant, timely and easily consumable updates to all internal and external audiences.

• Create Epics and ensures it aligns across products; identify business rules and business impact; involve Product Owners to ensure delivery team is aligned to features and feature acceptance criteria; collaborate with other product managers to ensure alignment across products; participate in planning and pre/post-planning events (Demos and Inspect/Adapt).

Development:

• Build an effective relationship between Product & Development teams.

• Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Architecture and others to execute work including prototyping and testing to validate solutions.

• Recommends and helps implement Product Management’s process improvement initiatives.

Sales & Client Engagement:

• Engages with cross-functional stakeholders and business partners, to ensure product vision addresses:

  • Marketplace access

  • Format

  • Key features and functionality requirements, service, and support requirements

  • Key accounts and prospects

• Collaborates cross-functionally to evaluate opportunities with a promise of positive product/product line impact.

Evaluation:

• Measures and monitors product KPI performance, and provides strategy and roadmap input accordingly; makes end-of-life recommendations for non-performant products.

• Evaluates customer/market/financial data, identifies emerging patterns, trends and problems, and recommends strategies and approaches for resolution.

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

• Analytical Thinking – Working knowledge of and ability to apply effective analytical techniques and tools. Analyzes issues, determines root cause, and creates/compares alternative solutions that are in the best interest of the business. Approaches situations by defining the issue, determining its significance, and identifying the forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand. Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of data and draws conclusions.

• Managing Multiple Priorities - Manages multiple concurrent objectives, projects, or activities, making informed prioritization and time allocation decisions. Understands work and activity can be impacted by shifts in demands and priorities.  Responds to day-to-day