The AVP, Software Engineering, Lead to Cash, provides senior engineering leadership for the Lead to Cash value stream - with full accountability for both end-to-end value delivery and the health, depth, and innovation of the engineering platforms that enable it. Leads software engineering organization across Customer Platforms, Billing Platforms, Integration engineering, and Master Data Governance ensuring each platform is built and maintained with engineering excellence and AI readiness. Engages with cross-functional leadership to understand business requirements, architecture and technology direction and evaluate alternative approaches, ensuring software and systems are designed accordingly. Incorporates state-of-the-art concepts and practices to facilitate system functionality, scalability, resilience and security, as well as ease-of-use (developer / user experience), and accountable for driving Cox Automotive's AI Transformation across the full engineering lifecycle.
Primary Duties/Key Responsibilities
- Serves as the single engineering escalation point for value stream delivery
- Operates as a peer to Product leadership on roadmap prioritization, delivery planning, and stakeholder communication across the full portfolio.
- Holds Platform Leaders accountable for platform health, technical depth, AI tooling adoption, and the performance of Value Stream Leaders within their organizations - ensuring delivery accountability flows through the platform org all the way to E2E business outcomes.
- Establishes appropriate engineering operating model for value stream delivery - including release cadence, quality gates, and automated validation standards.
- Resolves cross-platform engineering dependencies and release coordination across multiple concurrent platform teams to maintain delivery velocity.
- Owns master data governance inclusive of data standards, data quality, and data accountability across Lead to Cash to enable reliable, consistent business outcomes.
- Develops and retains Platform Leaders - setting clear expectations for technical excellence, platform innovation, AI transformation readiness, and the development of Value Stream Leaders within their organizations. Builds a strong leadership pipeline.
- Leads AI Transformation (AiT) execution across the value stream - driving adoption of spec-driven development, AI-assisted engineering tooling, and AI-enabled delivery practices.
- Keeps abreast of current and future business, industry, and technology trends - with particular focus on AI-enabled development practices and their applicability to the value stream.
- Stays ahead of vendor AI roadmaps and negotiates from a position of technical credibility.
- Establishes long-range direction for software product research and development within the value stream, aligned to Cox Automotive's AI transformation strategy.
- Other duties as needed or required.
Required Experience & Specialized Knowledge and skills
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 14 years' experience in a related field with at least 7 years' experience in a management role; or a master's degree and 12 years' experience; or PhD and 9 years' experience.
- Proven ability to lead and develop large, complex engineering organizations - comfortable managing through layers, building high-performing teams, and creating the conditions for talent to thrive.
- Demonstrated experience leading engineering delivery across complex, multi-platform environments - comfortable traversing different technology stacks without needing to be the deepest expert in any single platform.
- Proven track record of driving cross-platform coordination and resolving dependencies across teams to maintain delivery velocity.
- Strong technology thought leadership - able to articulate a compelling technical vision, challenge conventional approaches, and lead an organization through significant technology change.
- Exceptional executive presence - communicates with confidence and clarity in front of senior business leaders, translating complex engineering topics into business-relevant narratives without losing technical credibility.
- Experience leading or participating in AI transformation programs - familiarity with spec-driven development, AI-assisted coding tools, and AI-enabled delivery practices strongly preferred.
- Forward-looking mindset on the future of enterprise software - actively thinking about how AI is disrupting the traditional SaaS and platform model, and willing to challenge how Cox Automotive approaches platform investments as that landscape evolves.
- Familiarity with CRM platforms, billing systems, and cloud-native integration.
- Mastery skills in analytical thinking, business acumen, requirements analysis, and technology strategy.
- Mastery skills in building partnerships, executive communication, engaging others across all levels of the organization, guiding team success, leading change, and leading with vision.
What makes this role different
- This role carries total engineering accountability for the portfolio - platform health, technical innovation, and end-to-end business value delivery all flow through this leader. Platform Leaders report directly to the AVP, and within each platform organization, Value Stream Leaders drive E2E business outcomes across platform boundaries.
- Unlike a traditional single-platform engineering leader, this AVP must hold the big picture across multiple platform domains, ensure Platform Leaders are driving technical rigor and AI transformation, and ensure Value Stream Leaders embedded in those platform orgs are staying focused on cross-platform business outcomes - not just their own platform's delivery.
- The ideal candidate is equally strong as a technology thought leader and a people leader - able to set a compelling vision for how engineering should evolve, while building the organizational capability and trust to get there.
- This leader must be willing to disrupt conventional thinking about how platforms are built, operated, and sourced. As AI begins to reshape the SaaS industry itself - changing what vendor platforms provide, what internal teams need to build, and how software is developed - this AVP needs to be actively thinking about what that means for Cox Automotive's platform strategy, not reacting to it after the fact.
USD 217,400.00 - 362,300.00
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $217,400.00 - $362,300.00. 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.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
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Cox
parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays
Apr 17, 2026