Senior Lead Product Manager

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Engineering / Product Development

Sr Lead Product Manager

Sr Manager - Non People LeaderHybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

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Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $134,900.00 - $224,900.00. 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.

The Senior Lead Product Manager is responsible for developing, managing, and optimizing products at Manheim. This position involves contributing to and managing the product roadmap, overseeing implementation, and collaborating with a cross-functional team in an AI-driven environment to deliver products that serve both internal and external clients.

Success in this role requires expertise in Product Management and Ownership, stakeholder and customer engagement, and aligning priorities, as well as knowledge of other relevant disciplines within the organization. The Senior Lead Product Manager oversees one or more strategically important products with high growth potential, which typically involve large cross-functional teams. Additionally, the role incorporates AI tools throughout all phases of the product development lifecycle.

Areas of Focus

• Product Strategy and Discovery: Leverage AI to accelerate discovery, experimentation, and development, and recommend improvements to the PDLC and ecosystem. Lead the discovery process to formulate an in-depth understanding of problems by customer segment and personas with an understanding of the market and competitive landscape. Collaborate with business leaders to ensure product strategy and discovery efforts align to business objectives. Partner with cross-functional groups, stakeholders and clients to inform discovery efforts.

• Product Roadmap: Synthesize discovery into a transparent, outcome-oriented roadmap that sequences near-term wins and longer-horizon strategies; maintain the roadmap and ensure transparency in communication of deliverables with internal stakeholders and clients.

• Planning and Execution: Translate strategy into business outcomes, milestones, and epics; maintain a backlog that continuously delivers measurable value. Collaborate with Product Management and UX colleagues to ensure alignment across the product portfolio. Have a mind towards delivering incremental value throughout the product lifecycle.

• Agile Development: Adopt AI tooling and employ a mindset focused on how to think about and approach work throughout the PDLC. Understand how to effectively apply modern development methodologies in a complex enterprise environment. Build effective relationships with onshore and offshore teams, including contractors, across product, UX, engineering, architecture and solution delivery. Ensure teams understand the product vision and how to execute in a way that incrementally delivers value towards that vision.

• Go-To-Market Planning: Apply commercialization mindset to inform innovation and product development activities in collaboration with business, operations, and marketing teams. Engage with implementation, training and technical support partners to ensure that product solutions balance operational scalability with cost and speed to market. Support testing, experimentation, and iterative value delivery while partnering with business stakeholders to develop pricing strategies and assess impact on Return on Investment (ROI).

• Client Engagement: Engage with clients and client-proxies (e.g., sales, marketing, operations, performance management) throughout the discovery process to gather feedback and input on product ideas.

• Product Success: Assess product performance against KPIs and provide insights to improve product performance and i