Technical Product Manager (Design System Creator)

About the position

At CoreLogic, we are driven by a single mission-to make the property industry faster, smarter, and more people-centric. CoreLogic is the trusted source for property intelligence, with unmatched precision, depth, breadth, and insights across the entire ecosystem. Our talented team of 5,000 employees globally uses our network, scale, connectivity and technology to drive the largest asset class in the world. Join us as we work toward our vision of fueling a thriving global property ecosystem and a more resilient society. CoreLogic is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive work culture that inspires innovation and bold thinking; it's a place where you can collaborate, feel valued, develop skills and directly impact the real estate economy. We know our people are our greatest asset. At CoreLogic, you can be yourself, lift people up and make an impact. By putting clients first and continuously innovating, we're working together to set the pace for unlocking new possibilities that better serve the property industry.

Responsibilities

• Ensure product solves user needs and achieves business objectives
• Collaborate with the team to provide technical direction on product, design, and architectural decisions
• Understand and communicate the product vision and strategy
• Collaborate with product and business partners to design scalable cloud-based solutions that deliver value to our customers
• Create, own, manage, and prioritize the product development backlog
• Define and continuously prioritize product features
• Construct small, vertically sliced user stories that deliver value to the end user
• Write clear and concise acceptance criteria to validate story completion and as a starting point for developers to write tests
• Guide the team in iteration planning by estimating effort, complexity, and risk and uncertainty of user stories
• Embrace and exemplify Extreme Programming (XP) Values (Simplicity, Communication, Feedback, Respect, Courage)
• Provide guidance to the product development team in following our engineering practices including iterative development, CI/CD, pair programming, test-driven development, API-first mindset, and full stack development
• Validate acceptance criteria to confirm user story is complete
• Ensure the team stays in rhythm following weekly iteration cadence including team standup, story discovery, iteration planning meeting, pair programming, retrospective
• Determine when to ship software
• Perform production release planning and deploy applications and services utilizing CI/CD pipeline
• Monitor errors to support availability and resilience of our platform
• Assist in diagnosing and resolving production incidents and then improve upon our systems
• Enable the team to maintain a sustainable pace
• Remove blockers for the team
• Ensure product partner & relevant stakeholders understand progress towards goals and outcomes
• Manage stakeholders and influence decision making across wide a variety of roles and levels in the organization
• Translate business needs into technical terms
• Be an active member of the technical product manager community to help grow and hone our engineering and product practices including Lean Product, User-Centered Design, and Extreme Programming (XP)
• Define and document standards and best practices in collaboration with the engineering practice leader

Requirements

• 1-3 years of Product/development team leadership experience, including experience defining/managing/owning a product backlog, story writing and defining acceptance criteria, iteration planning
• 1-3 years experience and success working with Agile and/or Extreme Programming (XP) development teams as a TPM, Product Manager/Owner, or Software Engineer
• Experience working with Design Systems, understanding the big picture and how it serves products
• Experience with cloud native ecosystems
• Experience with Lean Product Design and Lean Software Development principles
• Excellent communication skills required to translate business needs into technical terms
• Ability to influence decision making across wide a variety of roles and levels in the organization
• Experience training others in these methodologies
• Experience in helping to design and implement large-scale event-driven architectures
• Knowledge and experience in user-centered design methods/frameworks
• Domain-specific industry experience in Real Estate, Insurance, Mortgage, Commercial or Residential Tax a plus
• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Work Experience preferred

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Diverse and inclusive work culture
• Opportunities for professional growth and development