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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.Job Description\n** Candidates must be located in the Eastern or Central time zone. **\n** This is a remote role; however, candidates located near the Atlanta office will come in 3 days/week. **\nThe Sales Strategy & Enablement Director, is an individual contributor responsible for driving the AI vision and roadmap for the Sales and SBO (Sales Business Office) organizations at Cox Automotive, both by tracking progress and maturity and by actively driving roadmap items through delivery systems. This individual serves as the designated AI Ambassador for Sales and SBO within the enterprise-wide AI ambassador program, ensuring these functions have an informed, engaged voice in enterprise AI governance, pilot coordination, and emerging technology evaluation. This role leads the strategic effort to determine how Sales and SBO tools should converge as AI capabilities mature, partnering heavily across the Sales Analytics, Business Process Design & Improvement, Technology, Sales, and SBO teams to shape the future seller experience. The Director develops frameworks, evaluation criteria, and phased plans that guide how the current tool stack evolves and how new AI-enabled experiences are curated for sellers and SBO team members. Beyond AI-specific responsibilities, this individual contributes to broader initiatives that improve the overall seller experience at Cox Automotive, serving as a strategic resource that can be deployed against high-priority projects and transformation efforts as business needs evolve.\nPRIMARY DUTIES/KEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nDrives the CAI Sales and SBO AI vision and roadmap forward through the delivery system, tracking progress and maturity while ensuring the roadmap evolves as technology, vendor landscape, and business priorities shift. \nServes as the designated AI Ambassador for the Sales and SBO organizations, representing their priorities and readiness in the enterprise-wide AI ambassador network through weekly coordination and ad hoc testing sessions. \nServes as a trusted AI advisor to CAI Sales and SBO, guiding teams through the development and implementation of AI solutions, helping ensure the right foundation and approach are in place, and providing expertise to assess whether solutions are being designed effectively.\nLeads organizational readiness and positioning efforts for incoming agentic AI capabilities, developing structured evaluation criteria and sequencing recommendations before new tools enter build or pilot phases. \nContributes to the strategic change narrative for sales leadership and the broader field organization, communicating what transformation is coming, why it matters, and how the organization will navigate it. \nOwns the structured mechanism for capturing seller feedback and channeling it back to vision-level roadmap decisions, ensuring transformation efforts remain grounded in actual seller and SBO team member experience. \nDefines vision-level success criteria and transformation measurement frameworks that assess whether the overall seller and SBO experience, sales effectiveness, and return on investment are improving, beyond individual tool adoption metrics. \nDrives strategic tool rationalization and consolidation decisions, identifying redundancy across the sales and SBO tool stack and building business cases for convergence aligned to the broader AI vision. \nCreates investment roadmaps and impact analyses aligned with future budget plans, providing clear visibility into new funding requirements and potential variances associated with AI transformation initiatives. \nEnsures Sales and SBO interests are represented in enterprise-level AI policy, platform, and governance decisions, advocating for alignment between what is being built enterprise-wide and what sellers actually need. \nContributes to broader initiatives that enhance the overall seller experience at Cox Automotive, serving as a strategic resource available for high-priority projects and transformation efforts beyond AI-specific work. \nPartners with the SBO Business Process Design & Improvement Team to ensure smooth handoffs between strategic transformation decisions and operational enablement execution, including tool sunset timing, migration planning, and field communication sequencing. \nSupports the development of shared governance frameworks, intake and prioritization mechanisms, handoff protocols, and citizen development standards. \nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree with 10+ years of strategy, transformation or senior operations. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 8 years of the above experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years related experience; or 14 years of the above experience without a degree.\nMinimum 1 year of hands-on experience designing, implementing, or advising on AI solutions, with demonstrated ability to evaluate AI use cases, solution approaches, and foundational requirements and guide others on effective AI implementation.\nDemonstrated ability to develop and communicate multi-year strategic visions and translate them into actionable roadmaps with measurable milestones. Experience with product or program lifecycle management within a structured delivery framework (e.g., Agile or phase-gate), rather than strategic planning alone. \nDeep, hands-on expertise with enterprise AI and agentic technologies, including tools such as Claude and Copilot M365, with the ability to advise teams on how AI can effectively integrate with the broader sales technology ecosystem, including Salesforce, CPQ, sales enablement, and conversation intelligence platforms. Able to evaluate solutions, identify overlap, and recommend opportunities to simplify and optimize the technology stack. \nProven ability to operate as a strategic partner to senior sales leadership, translating business priorities into technology and transformation strategy.\nExperience leading enterprise-level transformation or change initiatives in a matrixed organization, including stakeholder alignment across multiple functions without direct authority, ideally grounded in a recognized change management framework such as Prosci or ADKAR. \nStrong ability to evaluate emerging technologies for strategic fit, organizational readiness, and business impact rather than purely technical capability.\nWorking knowledge of AI governance, data privacy, and security considerations, including responsible AI principles, with the ability to represent business interests in enterprise-level AI policy and governance decisions.\nExcellent executive communication and presentation skills, including the ability to develop leadership-facing materials that simplify complex transformation narratives.\nExperience developing investment roadmaps, business cases, and impact analyses that support funding decisions.\nOutstanding analytical and problem-solving skills with a high degree of intellectual curiosity, including strong data gathering, reporting, and statistical analysis; the ability to define performance measurements and interpret data using concepts such as variance, correlation, and trends; and the ability to define problems, determine root causes, and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations that connect strategic vision to operational reality.\nComfort operating in ambiguity and evolving organizational models, with a bias toward building lightweight frameworks that can iterate rather than waiting for perfect structures.\nFluent in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint, Excel, and Word; ability to create executive-level documentation.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nFamiliarity with the automotive retail industry or Cox Automotive's business model is a plus.\nDrug Testing\nTo be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.Benefits\nThe 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.About Us\nThrough groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells - or simply uses - cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. 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.EOE, including disability/vetsApplicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. 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