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The Lead 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 as agreed upon by our business stakeholders and technology leaders with an emphasis on Salesforce.com. Works with Product Managers, Business Leaders, and a cross-functional Scrum team to deliver the product to the Client(s).  Manages the overall effort to deliver products, capabilities, services and enhancements using the strategic vision of the product roadmap as well as provide value back to the business. Understands the general business processes involved, accepts delivered functionality and recommends  review, approval and release. Prioritizes and maintains the product backlog and performs just-in-time story elaboration with the development team.

PRIMARY DUTIES/KEY RESPONSIBILITES:

Planning:

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

•    Assist in the prioritization and management of the 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 Business stakeholder effectiveness/efficiencies, product performance and achieving overall product success/KPIs.

Development:

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

•    Partner with multiple business units to understand business problems,  gather and define requirements

•    Facilitate solution optioning with Engineering.

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

Client Engagement:

•    Partner with operations, client solutions, dealer support and other Service based leadership teams to communicate product performance and value for in-market products.

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 – Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.  Follows agreed standards, applying appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements e.g “as-is” and “to-be” business process maps.  Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required.  Prioritizes requirements and documents traceability to source.  Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.  Provides input to the requirements base-line, investigates, manages and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.

•    Project Management – Defines, documents and carries out small projects or sub-projects (typically less than 6 months, with limited budget, limited interdependency with other projects, and no significant strategic impact), alone or with a small team, actively participating in all phases.  Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project.  Applies appropriate project management methods and tools whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.  Agrees project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communication plans) and tracks activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.  Monitors costs, timescales and resources used, and takes action where these deviate from agreed tolerances.  Ensures that own projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are recorded.

•    Product Management  – Applies standard techniques and tools to carry out analysis and performance monitoring activities for specified products.  Supports problem resolution, resolves issues and acts on feedback and usage of in-life products.  Contributes product collateral and monitors results and feedback from product launches. Typically, responsible for one product, depending upon the product’s complexity.

•    Other duties as needed or required

•    Requires physical ability and mental acuity to execute the duties of the position successfully within required timeframes in order to meet business requirements.

Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Communications, or a related field.

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

•    Working knowledge of Product specialty/job area principles concepts, practices.

•    Working knowledge of SAFe Agile Methodology.

•    Demonstrated ability to translate data into quantifiable actions/deliverables.

•    Strong writing ability. 

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

•    Working experience in full product lifecycle methodologies.

•    Working experience in creating, prioritizing and recommending epics and features.

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

PREFERRED:

•    Experience with Salesforce.com or Admin Certified a plus

•    Business process mapping  

Who We Are

About Cox Automotive

There’s nothing ordinary about Cox Automotive. We are people of every background driven by our passion for mobility, innovation, client success and community outreach. We make buying, selling and owning (or simply using) cars easier for everyone. Touching more than 40,000 clients across five continents, we bring together the best brands and the best teams to propel the automotive industry forward. Some of those team members work for our iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, while others are creating the future of automotive at industry-facing brands like Dealer.com, Manheim and vAuto.

About Cox 

We are the Cox family of businesses. We’ve been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us.  Our primary divisions – Cox Communications and Cox Automotive – are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators.  We’re also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation.  We’re looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow. Sound intriguing? Learn more about where we are today, where we hope you’ll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com.

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.  

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