Lead Product Manager

Lead Product Manager at Manheim (Cox Automotive), onsite in Atlanta, GA, responsible for developing AI enabled products, shaping the roadmap, and coordinating cross functional teams across the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and optimize AI enabled products at Manheim.
• Shape and steward the product roadmap from discovery through delivery.
• Lead implementation efforts to ensure successful deployment and adoption.
• Collaborate with a cross functional team in an AI driven setting to deliver value for internal and external clients.
• Own one or more strategically important products with high growth potential, guiding large cross functional teams.
• Integrate AI capabilities across all stages of the product development lifecycle.
• Product strategy and discovery: apply AI to accelerate discovery, experimentation, and development; propose PDLC and ecosystem improvements; conduct problem framing by customer segment and personas with market and competitive insights; align with business leaders to meet objectives.
• Roadmap development: translate discovery into a transparent, outcome oriented plan; prioritize near term wins and long term initiatives; maintain visibility of deliverables with stakeholders and clients.
• Planning and execution: convert strategy into measurable outcomes, milestones, and epics; maintain a backlog delivering continuous value; coordinate with PM and UX to align across the portfolio; emphasize incremental value across the lifecycle.
• Agile development: apply AI tooling and a PDLC focused mindset; leverage modern development practices in a complex enterprise; build strong relationships with onshore and offshore teams across product, UX, engineering, architecture, and delivery; ensure teams understand the vision and deliver incremental value.
• Go to market planning: bring a commercialization mindset to innovation and development; collaborate with business, operations, and marketing; coordinate with implementation, training, and support partners to balance scalability with cost and speed to market; support testing, experimentation, and iterative value delivery while shaping pricing strategy and ROI impact.
• Client engagement: work with clients and proxies throughout discovery to gather feedback on product ideas.
• Product success: monitor KPIs and provide insights to improve performance and guide future roadmap priorities.
• Product ownership: act as product liaison; partner with development teams to establish acceptance criteria, manage priorities and backlogs, and ensure delivery aligns with business strategy and requirements; facilitate cross stakeholder communication.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field with at least 6 years of relevant experience; alternative combinations include: master’s degree with 4+ years, PhD with 1+ year, or 10+ years total experience.
• 6+ years of product management or development experience delivering complex enterprise products.
• Comfort with current AI tools and a growth mindset for integrating AI into workflows while challenging the status quo to unlock business value.
• Strong critical thinking to solve challenging problems for complex enterprise products.
• Ability to clearly articulate customer problems and solution value, influencing cross functional teams; comfortable with tough conversations.
• Excellent communicator who conveys customer problems, trade-offs, and value to both technical and non technical audiences.
• Fluency with agile methods and tools; proven cross functional leadership with UX, engineering, and architecture.
• Purpose driven with ability to motivate others and a bias toward action; continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience with product planning/roadmaps and project management tools.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a track record of building relationships with team members and customers.
• Authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future visa sponsorship.
• Analytical thinking: apply rigorous analysis to identify root causes, compare solutions, and inform decision making.
• Managing multiple priorities: juggle concurrent objectives and re-prioritize as needed to protect delivery commitments.
• Requirements analysis: elicit, analyze, and document business requirements; engage with stakeholders to gather and manage expectations.
• System and technology integration: understand how applications, databases, and platforms connect and participate in integration efforts.
• Technology savvy: leverage technology to improve processes and explore emerging solutions; educate others on impact.
• Communication: articulate problems, value, and trade-offs clearly; influence cross functional teams.
• Acts with integrity: uphold ethical standards and professional guidelines.
• Builds partnerships: cultivate long term, business focused relationships inside and outside the organization.
• Drives innovation: explore new approaches, test ideas, and take calculated risks to improve outcomes.
• Focuses on execution: set ambitious goals, track progress, and persist to overcome obstacles with a bias toward action.
• Strives for excellence: establish high quality standards and take responsibility for outcomes.

Functional Skills

• Analytical thinking and problem solving with data driven decision making.
• Managing multiple priorities and adaptive planning.
• Requirements analysis and stakeholder management.
• System and technology integration across applications and platforms.
• Technology savviness and ability to leverage emerging solutions.
• Effective communication across technical and non technical audiences.

Foundational Skills

• Acts with integrity and ethical judgment.
• Builds partnerships and collaborates across teams.
• Drives innovation and willingness to experiment.
• Focuses on execution and delivering results.
• Strives for excellence in work quality and accountability.

Compensation

• USD 111,500.00 – 185,900.00 per year base salary; final amount varies by location and candidate experience.
• Position may be eligible for incentive based compensation.

Benefits

• Flexible vacation policy with pay, subject to duties and company needs.
• Seven paid holidays per year.
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness leave annually for personal or family health needs.
• Additional paid time off including bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

What We Look For

• Minimum qualifications aligned with degree and experience requirements as listed above.
• Experience delivering complex enterprise products with a track record of shipping.
• Comfort with AI tools and a growth mindset for integrating AI into workflows.
• Strong critical thinking and problem solving for complex enterprise products.
• Ability to articulate customer problems and solution value to cross functional teams; capable of tough conversations.
• Excellent communication and agile leadership across UX, engineering, and architecture.
• Purpose driven with continuous improvement and action orientation.
• Experience with product planning, roadmaps, and project management tools.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with team members and customers.
• US work authorization without sponsorship required now or in the future.