Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Sr Product Owner

Management Level

Individual Contributor

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

No

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $88,300.00 - $147,100.00. 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.

Job Description

The Senior Product Owner will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive approach to deliver one or more products, capabilities, services, or enhancements in accordance with the product roadmap primarily focusing on our Composer product.  They will work with Product Managers, Business Leaders, and a cross-functional Scrum team to deliver the product to the Client.  They will manage the overall effort to deliver products, capabilities, services and enhancements using the strategic vision as well as established key performance indicators. They understand the functionality and determines the release sequence.  Prioritizes and maintains the product backlog and performs just-in-time story elaboration with the development team.

Primary Duties and Responsibility include:

Planning:

Support Release Train and scrum team(s) via Product Increment (PI) planning, managing the product backlog and software development details, and maintaining velocity.

Prioritize and manage backlog and implementation, ensure product execution meets strategy and requirements and refine features into user stories and story acceptance criteria.

Partner with Product Managers to understand and influence product strategy and roadmaps, aggregate and conceive ideas for enhancing product performance and achieving product success/KPIs.

Development:

Lead multiple scrum teams to build, enhance and manage one or more products, capabilities or services.

Coordinate with other Agile Product Managers to deliver on a vision that crosses multiple delivery streams or release trains.

Sales and Client Engagement:

Engage with Clients as a Subject Matter Expert to understand performance and needs of the Client for in-market products.

Partner with sales, sales operations, client solutions, and client marketing teams to communicate product performance and value for in-market products.

Evaluation:

Assess product performance against KPIs and make corrections to improve performance and regularly communicate performance of the product/experience to stakeholders and the organization.

Technical/Functional Skills

Relationship Management - Implements stakeholder engagement communications plan.  Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.  Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.  Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.

Requirements Definition & Management - Contributes to the selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.  Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.  Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritization of requirements.  Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.  Establishes the requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.  Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.

Project Management - Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines).  Identifies, assesses and manages risk to the success of the project.  Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and ensures regular and accurate communication to stakeholders.  Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.  Ensures quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure.  Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off.  Provides effective leadership to the project team, and takes appropriate action where team performance deviates from agreed tolerances.

Product Management - Reviews analysis and performance monitoring for specified products.  Supports problem resolution, resolves issues and acts on feedback and usage of in-life products.  Contributes to product collateral and monitors results and feedback from product launches. Responsible for one or more products, depending upon the product’s complexity.

Other duties as needed or required.

Education, experience and Qualifications

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

5 years; or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

Requires and applies a broad knowledge of business, product performance and industry principles, practices, and procedures.

Working knowledge for SAFe Agile Methodology

Experience in working cross-functionally with a variety of different domains, including Engineering, Finance, and Business Development.

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, that can be applied across a diverse set of audiences.

High-level understanding of engineering architecture with experience working with engineering teams to deliver products.

Work experience in design, development and implementation of product plans.

Working experience in full product lifecycle methodologies.

Working experience in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.

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.

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, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.

About Us

Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells – or simply uses – cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.