Product Manager, Rentals Platform

At Realtor.com®, we have among the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all the online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone.
Building your career? Build it better at Realtor.com®. Join us and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.
As the Product Manager for our Rentals Platform, you'll join a Product Development team composed of Product Managers, Engineers, and UX Designers, solving very large pain points in the rental industry and journey. You'll be responsible for a strategic, and significant component of the Rentals tech stack, user journey, and long-term ambition.
You will partner closely with Engineering to implement a service-based architecture that will yield efficiency across all teams. You'll also work closely with Engineering on supporting our Payments and Payment Ops products, which includes ACH/card payments, know your customer policies, and tax compliance requirements. Finally, you'll work closely with Engineering to sunset older technologies in favor of more efficient and more cost effective solutions. Your domain will skew platform, backend, data, and services. However, there are a number of components in this roadmap that have Renter, Landlord, and Internal User actor interfaces.
What you'll do:

• Create and socialize a compelling roadmap and outline how we'll achieve it together
• Thoroughly understand your domain and thoughtfully prioritize investments in your roadmap aligned to KRs
• Measure your team's impact and success against KRs
• Work closely with your engineering partner and stakeholders to identify solution approaches that can be both build or buy
• Shape and present opportunities to the company, executive team, and partners
• Own quantitative funnels and metrics to identify product opportunities and problems
• Evangelize a data driven DNA throughout the entire organization
• Continuously monitor and communicate project health through metrics
• Interface with a globally distributed team
• Own products and features throughout the SDLC process
• Create and maintain a product backlog with epics, user stories, UATs, and specifications
• Run agile / scrum ceremonies
• Partner with UX to plan and shape any applicable UX enhancements
• Ideate, execute, monitor, and provide feedback loop on A/B or multivariate tests
• Develop, plan, and execute user acceptance testing
• Product demos, training, and documentation for customer support
• Direct strategic sales and product initiatives with partners
• Own some 3rd party tech product integrations and relationships
• Be a steward of our product and design ethos, company values, and compliance / security requirements

What you'll bring:

• BS, BA, MBA from an accredited university with Business, STEM, quantitative discipline
• 5+ years of product management experience
• 2+ years of agile software development experience
• Demonstrated experience identifying product opportunities and problems via quantitative product analytics
• Expertise in taking manual processes and automating them
• Expertise conducting A/B and multivariate experiments
• Expertise with web and product analytic software such as Looker, Mixpanel, Heap, Google Analytics
• Expertise in planning, roadmapping, estimating, and prioritization
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative research skills and experience
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to create diverse artifacts such as executive presentations, roadmaps, project specs, UI copy, and UATs
• Evangelist of product management process and principles
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, making hard decisions and trade-offs quickly while iterating on innovative solutions
• User-centered in style, background in both consumer-facing and B2B products preferred
• Respectful approach to guide, encourage (and even inspire!) a cross-functional team to allow each person to uniquely shine and contribute
• Soft skills set including communication, friendly, approachable, open to ideas, generous giver and receiver of feedback
• Desire to be part of and help create a highly-inclusive culture where everyone can belong

Nice to haves:

• Product Owner experience
• Experience with ACH, payment operations, and know your customer domains
• Passion for or detailed understanding of proptech, fintech, real estate investing, property management, landlording, or real estate industries
• Experience working with landlords and/or other real estate professionals
• Scripting or implementation experience

Additional locations for this role are Austin, TX, Santa Clara, CA, Westlake Village, CA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY and Vancouver, Canada
We balance accelerated creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration and flexibility, from inside and outside of our office walls. For most roles, our employees work three days of their choice in our offices and the remaining two days from home.
At Realtor, we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates.
The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect in the listed locations. We tailor our offers based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, location and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process. All ranges are location based, ranges for positions in other locations may vary based on the local market.
Salary Range for select office locations

• Santa Clara, CA $135,100 - $196,100
• Westlake Village, CA $122,900 - $177,900
• New York, NY $135,100 - $196,100

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Accordingly, offers extended for this role will include an annual bonus target typically expressed as percentage of salary. Similarly to salary, annual incentive bonus targets are set based on a variety of factors including job level, competitive market practice, experience, tenure, and essential skills.
In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com
Building your career? Build it better at Realtor.com®. Here, you'll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you'll find your way home too. People are our foundation-the core that drives us passionately forward. At Realtor.com, you'll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return we'll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Diversity is important to us, therefore, realtor.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, realtor.com will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.