Senior Product Manager, Workflow & Output Management
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Supporting Manheim, the world's largest wholesale auto auction network, the Inspections & Imaging Product Team builds the systems that capture, evaluate, and deliver vehicle condition data at scale. The Senior Product Manager, Workflow & Output Management owns the product vision and backlog for two connected domains within Inspections & Imaging. The first is client-facing: The integrations and reporting that ensure inspection and imaging output reaches downstream clients accurately and reliably. The second is internal-facing: The operational tools that inspection and imaging supervisors and managers use to monitor quality and manage day-to-day workflow. This role translates needs from both audiences into clear product specifications and partners with engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to drive delivery.
Responsibilities
- Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Owns the backlog for client integrations, reporting, and internal workflow tooling, keeping it prioritized, well-specified, and aligned to Inspections & Imaging delivery commitments
- Partners with engineering leads, operations, and client-facing teams to define requirements and drive features from discovery through delivery
- Gathers and synthesizes input from workflow supervisors, managers, and client stakeholders to surface problems worth solving and validate proposed solutions
- Writes clear problem and product documentation, (epic, feature, user stories, acceptance criteria) and specifications that engineers can execute with minimal ambiguity
- Monitors integration health, reporting accuracy, and tool adoption; identifies patterns and escalates or resolves issues with appropriate urgency
- Contributes to process improvement within the Inspections & Imaging Product team, including backlog hygiene, Rally discipline, and documentation standards
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field
- The right candidate may have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 years' experience in a related field; or 12 years' experience in a related field with no degree.
- Experience owning and prioritizing a product backlog within an Agile or SAFe delivery framework, including writing epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude, or equivalent) to improve personal productivity or drive AI-enabled transformation within a product or engineering team.
- Experience partnering with engineering leads, operations teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to define requirements and drive features from discovery through delivery.
- Experience with system and technology integrations, including client-facing data outputs such as API integrations, file deliveries, or automated reporting.
- Experience with Agile project management tools such as Rally, Jira, or equivalent for backlog management, sprint planning, and documentation standards.
- Experience gathering and synthesizing requirements from multiple stakeholder groups to identify problems and validate product solutions.
- Experience with data reporting and analytics, including building or managing operational dashboards, production reports, or quality-audit workflows.
- Experience with GitHub or similar version control platforms for specification management, documentation versioning, or project tracking.
- Experience with B2B product management, including managing products or tools used by internal operations teams and external business clients.
- Experience with APIs at a functional or conversational level, including defining integration requirements or managing API-based client deliverables.
- Experience in an informal or formal leadership capacity over a product team, pod, or delivery stream, including mentoring peers or guiding junior product managers.
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Additional Information
Company Cox Automotive - USA Job Family Group Engineering / Product Development Job Profile Sr Product Manager Management Level Individual Contributor Flexible Work Option Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week Travel % Yes, 5% of the time Work Shift Day
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