Senior Product Manager, Property Content

Company: Realtor.com
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: May 8, 2022

Job Description:

Who We Are

Realtor.com is your one stop shop for homebuyers, sellers, and dreamers, with comprehensive for-sale and for-rent listings, insightful information, valuable tools and professional expertise. We're excited and hungry to make a difference to the millions of people in the US who buy a home each year. Our aspiration starts with treating our home buyer as our focal point - we believe that delivering on experiences that truly help people through this seemingly difficult life event will lead us to continued and greater success as a company.

What You Will Be Doing---

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.

Day To Day You Can Expect To
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 Are Some Of The Benefits Of This Job ---
A generous base salary, complemented by an annual short term incentive
Meaningful benefits, such as wonderful support for new parents, with a generous gender-neutral parental leave policy for both primary and secondary caregivers
A manager and leadership dedicated to growing your skills, honing your strengths, engaging your passions, and allowing you to produce work you love
An environment that welcomes your feedback, values different points of view, and is eager to bring new ideas to life

What We're Looking For---

Of course, we have some things in mind that might help tell you if you're a pretty good fit. We're after product managers who have a:
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

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