Group Product Manager

Job Description

CoStar Group – Group Product Manager, Apartments.com

Overview:

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate. 

Apartments.com

Apartments.com is the nation’s #1 rental marketplace for owners, property managers and consumers. Apartments.com is the network that millions of renters every year rely on to find their new place, is continuing to grow our industry-leading sales force.  We provide apartment Property Managers and Owners with a platform to market their property listings and the industry’s most comprehensive virtual tools to attract the most and highest-quality renters.  The Apartments.com Network includes Apartments.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentFinder.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, and eight other leading rental sites. Our suite of services includes digital advertising, social and reputation management, and market analytic solutions which delivers innovative tools for our customers.

Learn more about Apartments.com.

Role Description:

The Aparments.com team is seeking a high-performing, results-driven Group Product Manager to create exceptional consumer experiences that will help lead Apartments.com through its next phase of growth. We are looking for both, a strategic thinker and a tactical operator who is passionate about building creative solutions as competitive differentiators.

This role offers the unique opportunity to shape the future of how people find their next home and how properties connect with qualified renters. You will be responsible for building world-class consumer experiences for a suite of digital products that power our rental search while driving growth initiatives in partnership with SEO, Content, and Marketing teams.

In this role, you will conceptualize and bring to life innovative cutting-edge features that renters will not only love, but also ones that keep renters returning to Apartments.com to use time and again.  You will marry the worlds of curating renter experiences and maximizing advertiser ROI to drive the Apartments.com value proposition to new heights. You will partner with Sales and Customer Service to demonstrate how and why Apartments.com’s advertising solutions are most effective. The ideal candidates will also champion feature adoption efforts by collaborating with Analytics to collect data and usage metrics and build successful case studies to further sales enablement efforts.

Beyond designing and shipping features, you will get the opportunity to define and steer the product strategy along with the roadmap while evaluating competitive movements to stay ahead. Success in this role will require a deep understanding of the evolving rental landscape, renter behavior, emerging trends in digital advertising, and the growing needs of Multifamily advertisers. 

• Position location – Atlanta, GA – 5 days onsite

Responsibilities:

• Craft a product strategy that supports Apartments.com’s business goals, 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
• Lead by example and inspire those around you by consistently building winning products that make Apartments.com the undoubted leader in rental shopping marketplaces
• 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
• Comfortably report product launch performance updates to product leadership
• 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

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit University or College
• 8+ 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 

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ 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 roadmapping 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

What’s in it for you?   
 ​When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed. We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.  
  

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):  

• 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  
• Paid time off  
• Tuition reimbursement  
  • On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent) 
• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups  
  • Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks 

 
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.  

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing