Own a VinSolutions CRM product area from discovery through delivery and post-launch measurement. Conduct dealer research, define product vision and specifications, manage agile backlogs in Rally, prototype with AI tools, and deliver agentic AI capabilities. Coordinate engineering, UX, analytics, marketing, sales, and client solutions while managing dependencies, experimentation, releases, and product performance. The role requires B2B SaaS product management experience and onsite work three days per week.
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.
As a Sr Product Manager, you will own a piece of that modernization end to end. This role sits in Cox Automotive's consolidated Product Creator model, which unifies Product Manager and Product Owner into a single AI-native product practice spanning five areas: Market & Client Research, Product Strategy, Product Development, In-Market Product Performance, and Professional Essentials. In practice, that means you carry your product area from discovery through delivery and measurement. You will spend real time with dealers, build tangible artifacts yourself instead of waiting for a handoff, and direct AI across the product lifecycle to accelerate the work. If you want to see your decisions reach dealers in weeks and measure what they did, this is that role.
What You'll Do
Who You Are
Minimum
Preferred
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
As a Sr Product Manager, you will own a piece of that modernization end to end. This role sits in Cox Automotive's consolidated Product Creator model, which unifies Product Manager and Product Owner into a single AI-native product practice spanning five areas: Market & Client Research, Product Strategy, Product Development, In-Market Product Performance, and Professional Essentials. In practice, that means you carry your product area from discovery through delivery and measurement. You will spend real time with dealers, build tangible artifacts yourself instead of waiting for a handoff, and direct AI across the product lifecycle to accelerate the work. If you want to see your decisions reach dealers in weeks and measure what they did, this is that role.
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
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