Sr Product Manager - 10248

Cox Enterprises, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 102,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation with pay

7 paid holidays per year

Wellness benefit (up to 160 hours)

Job summary

VinSolutions, Cox Automotive's industry-leading dealership CRM, is seeking a Product Manager to own a product area from discovery through post-launch. You will partner with dealers, sales staff, BDC teams and researchers to validate ideas and use AI-driven synthesis at scale.

You will build prototypes before code, define clear specs, and guide backlog refinement. A strong focus on agentic AI, multi-location enterprise needs, and fast decision-making will be essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field.
• Experience owning a software product or feature area through a full cycle: discovery, delivery, and post-launch measurement.
• 5 years of product management experience, including 2 years owning a B2B SaaS product or platform.
• Experience managing a backlog in an agile delivery tool such as Rally or Jira.
• Experience using AI tools to conduct research, build prototypes, or author specifications.
• Availability for rotational on-call duties outside of standard business hours may be required
• Able to work onsite 3 times/week

Responsibilities

• Own a product area outright. Discovery, specs, backlog, launch, and measurement.
• Get in front of dealers. Interact with dealerships, sit with sales staff and BDC teams, and partner with research teams to gather feedback.
• Build prototypes before engineering writes code using AI-native tools to validate ideas with dealers.
• Bring agentic AI into the dealer's day within selling and follow-up workflows.
• Author specs clearly for teams and AI agents, then own backlog refinement and incremental value versioning.
• Practice context engineering by maintaining dealer personas, competitive intel, and prior decisions across teams.
• Move with a bias toward action by running experiments and managing cross-team dependencies.

Skills

Product ownership

Backlog management

AI tools usage

On-call readiness

Onsite work

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline

Tools

Rally

Jira

Job description

VinSolutions is Cox Automotive's industry-leading dealership CRM, used by franchise dealers to manage leads, customer communication, and follow-up across their sales and BDC teams. The team is investing in a modernized interface, agentic AI inside the core workflow, native video, and enterprise capability for multi-rooftop dealer groups.

What You'll Do

• Own a product area outright. Discovery, specs, backlog, launch, and the measurement afterward - one owner, no handoff between PM and PO. You develop the vision and value proposition for your area and decide where we should be better than everyone else.
• Get in front of dealers. Interact with dealerships, sit with sales staff and BDC teams, and partner with UX research, marketing research, and client solutions to gather dealer and consumer feedback - pairing firsthand observation with AI-driven synthesis at scale.
• Build prototypes before engineering writes a line of code. Use AI-native tools like Claude, Claude Code, and Figma Make to put something real in front of a dealer and validate it early.
• Bring agentic AI into the dealer's day. AI that does real work inside the selling and follow-up workflow, on a product where adoption is measured daily.
• Author specs that leave nothing to interpretation. Clear enough for both teams and AI agents to execute without ambiguity, then own backlog refinement and incremental value versioning in Rally against them.
• Practice context engineering. Build and maintain the reusable context - product vision, dealer personas, competitive intel, prior decisions, research - that grounds both human and AI-assisted work in accurate, current information.
• Move with a bias toward action. Run experimentation and trade-off analysis, manage dependencies across engineering, UX, analytics, marketing, sales, and client solutions, and make recommendations to the release train.

Who You Are

Minimum

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline 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.
• Experience owning a software product or feature area through a full cycle: discovery, delivery, and post-launch measurement.
• 5 years of product management experience, including 2 years owning a B2B SaaS product or platform.
• Experience managing a backlog in an agile delivery tool such as Rally or Jira.
• Experience using AI tools to conduct research, build prototypes, or author specifications.
• Availability for rotational on-call duties outside of standard business hours may be required
• Able to work onsite 3 times/week

Preferred

• Automotive industry experience with a focus on dealer or consumer software.
• Experience with dealership software - CRM, DMS, or retail and service workflow tools.
• Experience shipping features built on large language models or agentic AI.
• Experience with enterprise, multi-tenant products serving customers with many locations.
• Experience in Spec Driven Development.

USD 101,500.00 - 169,100.00 per year

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