Senior Product Manager

CoStar Group - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Senior

Atlanta, GA

Real Estate

About the position

The Senior Product Manager at Apartments.com will lead the Apartments Network Sites through a significant growth phase, shaping the future of how renters find homes and how properties connect with qualified renters. This role involves building consumer experiences for digital products that enhance rental searches and driving growth initiatives in collaboration with SEO, Content, and Marketing teams. The position requires a strategic thinker who can define product strategy and manage a team, ensuring successful product delivery and alignment with company objectives.

Responsibilities

• Manage at least one Product Manager involved in executing strategy and partnering with key stakeholders.
• Craft a product strategy that supports Apartments.com's OKRs and competitive positioning.
• Shape and manage the product roadmap for one of Apartments.com's key product domains to execute the product strategy.
• Drive end-to-end product management efforts, from ideation to execution, across the entire product development lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery and iteration.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap progress, and performance insights effectively to product, engineering, and sales executive leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment.
• Coach and develop more junior product managers or cross-functional team members by fueling their growth, providing candid and constructive feedback, leading by example and inspiring those around you.
• Utilize qualitative and quantitative data, customer feedback, market research, and competitive analysis to identify and prioritize product enhancements and opportunities.
• Measure and evaluate the success of product releases, using metrics and KPIs to inform further optimizations and new product opportunities.
• Think strategically to design and launch features that not only enhance the customer experience, but also create significant business impact and growth.
• Forecast and weigh potential impact of new features against one another to make prioritization and tradeoff decisions.
• Closely partner with engineering teams to identify viable, efficient, and technically sound solutions for each product initiative.
• Collaborate with UI/UX design, content, SEO, analytics teams and other product managers to deliver a seamless product experience that resonates with users and achieves intended business objectives.
• Conduct ongoing user research and launch A/B tests to optimize engagement and conversion metrics throughout the user journey.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit University or College.
• 5+ years of digital Product Management experience with a proven track record delivering industry leading consumer products and solutions.
• Experience with leading and developing a team.
• Extensive experience planning, documenting, and communicating product requirements and plans to a broad range of audiences.
• Extensive experience collaborating with design iteratively to balance product goals and consumer experience.
• Extensive experience partnering with engineering teams to build, test, and launch features in lockstep with one another.
• Experience creating and managing a product roadmap and features.
• Experience creating wireframes, mock-ups, workflow diagrams, or journey maps to communicate product ideas and proposals.
• Experience analyzing and evaluating the success metrics of launched features.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.

Nice-to-haves

• 7+ years of digital Product Management experience with a proven track record delivering industry leading products and solutions.
• Experience with commercial real estate transactions and/or multifamily property management.
• Experience using road mapping and product management suite of tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps/TFS, Asana, Aha!, Monday.com.
• Experience using SQL, Google Analytics, FullStory, and/or other analytics tools.
• Experience using Maze, UserTesting, UserZoom, Dovetail and/or other user research tools.
• Experience conducting product experiments, A/B tests, and/or multivariate tests.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug.
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance.
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family.
• Commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• 11 holidays and 3 weeks of vacation per year.
• On-site fitness center.
• Access to CoStar Group's Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups.
• Snacks and caffeine.