Lead Product Manager, Property Content

Property Content is the foundation on which our user experiences are built, and as a product manager focused on content, your role will be to work across the organization to ensure that Realtor.com delivers the data that new home buyers and renters seek out, and rely upon.

In order to meet our users' needs for great real estate data, you’ll focus on three elements in particular:  listing breadth, depth, and speed.

Listing breadth is a very challenging problem to solve, that will require strong product execution, as well as creative problem solving. Real estate searchers seek a comprehensive set of results that they can be confident includes all of the homes that are available for sale or for rent.  However, there is no one place that has all of the available listings aggregated, so you’ll need to identify who has the listing data, and develop solutions that enable them to display those available homes on Realtor.com.  There is great diversity in terms of who has the data (independent landlords, big apartment REITS, custom home builders, national builders, etc),  so you’ll need to understand who they are, how they operate, and tailor solutions that enable them to deliver their content to Realtor.com.

Aggregating great content breadth is only part of the challenge though, because you’ll also focus on listing depth, to ensure that for the properties we display, we can paint the richest possible picture for a user, of what it would be like to live in that home. That could mean capturing all of the property facts and details from the property owner, it could mean pulling in vivid photos or virtual tours or floorplans, or it could mean augmenting the property info with 3rd party data like reviews, or utility costs.

Finally, since properties move on and off of the market very quickly, listing speed matters greatly, so that buyers and renters can act fast.  To ensure timely data, you’ll need to focus on our platform architecture and processes, to ensure that the listings we aggregate, can make it on (and off) of Realtor.com as rapidly as possible.

You won’t be alone on this journey.  You’ll motivate and guide content focused product strategy and development as a part of a small, empowered team of designers and engineers.  Together, with a clear mission in your head and heart, you’ll ship a lot of engaging, beautiful and personalized new product solutions that build the strongest content foundation anywhere.

What you'll do: 

• Work across all areas of Realtor.com, partnering with product and tech leaders of each vertical, to integrate and drive requirements on roadmaps to support the rentals and new homes visions
• Work in tight, nimble partnership with your tech teammates, sharing the sweat and joy of building stuff together
• Be celebrated for working with openness, trust, being humble, and being all about helping your team do great work 
• Embrace ambiguity and help your team through it, laughing when we make a bad choice before figuring out what to try next
• Help embed a creative, goal-oriented and bold product culture, where we try new things, and are curious and open-minded with how to reach each goal
• Have plenty of variety, no two days are the same!

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor degree or equivalent experience and 8+ years of experience in software product management within an Agile environment preferred
• Prior experience managing data and platform centric engineering teams highly desired
• Demonstrated ability to figure out solutions to hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgment to assess risks, and to lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-driven narrative
• Enjoy adapting to feedback from both users and internal stakeholders, building stronger product capabilities as a result
• Strong leadership skills and proven ability to bring many parties and perspectives together, forge a vision and drive towards common goals.
• Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, marketers and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship.
• User-centered style, with a strong sense of empathy and experience driving product direction and execution based on user needs
• Respectful approach to guide, encourage (and even inspire!) a cross-functional team of designers and engineers, to allow each person to uniquely shine and contribute 
• Desire to be part of and help create a highly-inclusive culture where everyone can belong
• Strategic thinker. Understands business objectives and converts them into clear product plans, follows through with execution.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and challenge. Thrives in a fast-paced environment, concurrently manages multiple initiatives, remains optimistic.
• Prior real-estate industry experience and rentals experience a huge plus