Kevin Dodt

About Kevin Dodt

I’ve washed and sold cars, delivered jewelry, planned events, created my own start-up, worked all over the music industry, consulted in automotive retail, and managed large-scale tech integrations. I was even a DJ! In my free time, I volunteer consulting services in urban land sustainability with Trees Atlanta. This background makes me a strong product manager with a unique perspective which I apply at Cox Automotive. I’m constantly seeking new knowledge and finding ways to tie it into my career journey and connect to a bigger life’s purpose. I’m an aspiring product leader looking for the right conditions to enable others’ learning and growth. More than anything, we need adaptable and conscientious product managers. Here’s a podcast review of my professional experience: https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/9a0b4d5f-7fb7-49dd-b8ea-877cc2e296ea/audioAnd for the bots: product management, product discovery, product development, user interviewing, user research, team management, product coaching, agile, scrum, public speaking, data analytics, SVPG, Marty Cagan

Experience

1. Senior Product Manager - Innovation

   Cox Automotive Inc.

   Jul 2024 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   I’m tasked with creating new products for an untapped user segment and am working outside the enterprise SAFe agile processes to deliver and iterate on products in weeks, not quarters. The aim is to incentivize users behavior across the enterprise and help these users adapt to market trends. The challenge is to validate a new user segment’s revenue potential and to prove our team’s approach is a viable alternative to the enterprise development process.Highlights:+ Owns the entire product and lifecycle of all features+ Prioritizes entire discovery and delivery roadmap+ AI: Releasing Gen AI vehicle highlights and automated descriptions.+ Won People’s choice award in Cox hackathon solving compliance with agentic AI solutions Launched:+ Initial MVP with inventory insights, a window sticker and buyers guide, and an automated list-to-Autotrader functionality+ Three pilots to test different behavior incentivization models that cover majority of ways the user segment engages with the enterprise+ Pay-per-listing product to prove revenue potential of user segment+ Light-weight inventory management system (a core user requirement) increasing TAM 30% and engagement 60%+ Email notifications with 70% open rate. Also using to segway product announcements and identify user segmentation+ Product analytics platform. Creates all tagging specs.Process/Operations:+ Trains all teams on products; creates product documentation, release notes, recorded product demos, and marketing materials+ Discovery: Conducting weekly user interviews that inform stakeholder discovery workshops, opportunity-solution trees, and discovery backlog+ Delivery: Overhauled engineering process to combine and transition to off-shore scrum model. Features launched as MVPs with measurable KPIs+ Iteration: Modeled after Teresa Torres’s “Continuous Discovery Habits” framework. Combines product analytics, user interviews, stakeholder feedback, POCs, and user testing

Education

• The University of Georgia

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)

  2012 — 2016

Skills

• Telecommunications
• Talent Booking
• Facebook
• Budgeting
• Public Speaking
• Marketing
• Digital Media
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Music Industry
• Career Development Coaching
• Apple Pages
• Spanish
• Management
• Website Construction
• Negotiation
• Email Marketing
• Social Media Marketing
• Listening
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Music
• Web Design
• Event Management
• Start-Ups
• Philanthropy
• Microsoft Word
• Social Media
• Event Planning
• Artist Management
• Sales Channel Development
• Writing
• Entrepreneurship
• Marketing Strategy
• Facebook Marketing
• Volunteer Management
• Social Networking
• New Business Development
• Strategic Partnerships